PUZZLE #277
ANAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE 5: SUBTRACTING & SCRAMBLING SOME MORE
The 6-letter word in each box is an anagram to the answer to each of the clues below.... almost. You see, in this puzzle,
all of the answers are five letters long, so remove an extra letter from each 6-letter word to get each answer. Put the number of each corresponding clue into the small box below the initial word and write down the anagram on the dash directly below that. The numbers in each row and column will add up to 65.
Once you're done with the puzzle, the subtracted letter of each answer, in numerical clue order, will spell out a clue; the FINAL ANSWER is the hyphenated word hinted at by the clue.
1) Doughnut's cousin
2) Pebbles Flintstone's mother
3) A- or C+
4) Guitar player's combination
5) Simple graphics program included with all versions of Windows
6) Radioactivity unit named after Pierre and/or Marie
7) Urkel's first name in
Family Matters
8) Old Oldsmobile car named after the last Greek letter
9) Large smoke that may need a cutter
10) Shoemaker's assistants in one of Grimms' Fairy Tales
11) Way before the deadline
12) With "The", nickname of the British trivia genius on GSN's
The Chase
13)
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator author Dahl
14) Greece's largest island
15) Upside-down "e"
16) Exits a computer game, perhaps
17)
Runaway _____ (1999 Julia Roberts movie)
18) French city known for its mustard
19) Mushroom "seed"
20) Sour's partner in certain sauces
21) 1990 Patrick Swayze film with a famous pottery-making scene
22) Month when National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day is observed
23) Joint where the funny bone is
24) Calibri and Comic Sans, for two
25)
Super Mario _____ 2 (Nintendo Switch game where you can create your own Mario levels)
Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either
redhead64@chartermi.net or
itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to
last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!
