ANSWERS: Charadagrams 2

It's been thirteen days since I've posted my second "Charadagrams" puzzle, so now it's time for me to reveal the answers! Before I do so, however, here are a list of people who have successfully solved it:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Mom ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Paolo Pasco ****
• YYW ****

Now just head below the break for the answers, along with some solver comments and pictures relevant to the puzzle's clues!

PUZZLE #30: Charadagrams 2

PUZZLE #30

CHARADAGRAMS 2

Since Grant Fikes decided to adopt one of my original formats last week (and one day before my birthday, too! Thanks for the birthday gift, Grant, even though it wasn't planned as such!), I've decided to return the favor by adopting one of his formats... again! If you're unfamiliar with this puzzle, here's Grant's original version of it, and here's my first effort at it. Now read on for the directions!

When the answers to the clues in the REBUSES are anagrammed and then assembled, they form the answers to the WHOLES clues. For example, if one of the REBUSES consists of clues reading "[Forearm bone] + [Holy item associated with a saint] + [Telepathy and such]", and a WHOLES clue is “Event in which the Earth casts a shadow”, then the answers ULNA, RELIC, and ESP can be anagrammed and assembled into LUNA/R ECLI/PSE. Both the REBUSES and the WHOLES clues are in no particular order, and you must determine which answer goes in which row of blanks.

The letters in the shaded squares, reading down, will form two words that can be anagrammed and assembled into the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a candy.

REBUSES

• [Avengers: _____ of Ultron] + [Fail to finish first] + [Destined] + [Louise's cinematic partner in crime]
• [Basketballer who once scored 100 points in one game] + [Love at first _____] + [Kendrick Lamar's genre] + [Wapiti]
• [Battering device] + [Elixirs] + [Clairvoyants with crystal balls]
• [I Am _____ (Upcoming E! miniseries)] + [Revered poet Maya] + [Luke Wilson's brother]
• [Last name of Chloe from 24] + [Chicken's sister in a Cartoon Network series] + [Not guilty]
• [Midpoint of a soccer match] + [Covered with sleet] + [Mangy mutts]
• [Not too far away] + [Big galoot] + [Butterfly _____ (this caused trouble in the 2000 US elections)]
• [Ogle] + [Singer Cyndi who's Still So Unusual] + [Pearl Jam's debut album]
• [Tails' surname] + [Glitters]
• [The Black _____ ("Hard to Handle" band)] + [Relaxation's partner] + [Will's beneficiary] + [Just _____ (series of open-world video games)]
• [Their only hit song was "How Bizarre"] + [PlayStation 3 game where you fling humans from a slingshot] + [2000 Ben Affleck/Gwyneth Paltrow film]
• [Type of table for rubdowns] + [British wheels] + [Baseball team that used to play at Shea Stadium]

WHOLES

• "Wannabe in L.A." band with a wildly inaccurate name
• Recurring KaBlam! segment filmed in "Chuckimation"
• Comic strip that frequently features dotted-line paths
• Condiment that many Americans can't pronounce
• Song by an amphibian that peaked at #25
• Princess Celestia's "most faithful student"
• Disney film featuring Captain Amelia
• "Weighted" Portal "character"
• "Sport" with Faces and Heels
• Director of Shutter Island
• It came before Genesis?
• Indoor gridiron game

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net (the main email for my home computer) or itsredhead64@gmail.com (the main email for my tablet and whenever I'm not at home) 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 solved it (you can also get some free hints for that puzzle here). If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!

ANSWERS: Charadagrams

It's been roughly two weeks since I posted my "Charadagrams" puzzle (which you can still solve here, with the easier version located here), so it's time for me to reveal the answers! But first, a list of people who have solved it:

• Grant Fikes **
• Sam Levitin **
• Eric Maddy **
• Adam Weaver **
• Debbie Underwood **
• Tyler Hinman **
• Christian H.P. **
• Walker Anderson **
• Lynn Sweeney *

Now just go below the break for the answers, along with some solver comments, a music video mentioned in my puzzle, and some pretty pictures!

EASY VERSION: Charadagrams

It's been almost a week since I published my "Charadagrams" puzzle, and so far, 8 people have managed to correctly solve it. If you want an easier version of that puzzle, just go below the break and print it out! Don't forget to send the FINAL ANSWER to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com before next week once you think you've figured it out!

PUZZLE #15: Charadagrams

PUZZLE #15

CHARADAGRAMS

This next puzzle of mine is directly based off of one of Grant Fikes' puzzles, but I've tweaked it a little to make it easier to solve; in Grant's original puzzle, I pretty much had to solve every single one of the "WHOLES" clues before before I could figure out where the "PARTS" went. So with that out of the way (and to figure out what I'm talking about), read on for the directions!

When the answers to the clues in the REBUSES are anagrammed and then assembled, they form the answers to the WHOLES clues. For example, if one of the REBUSES consists of clues reading "[Forearm bone] + [Holy item associated with a saint] + [Telepathy and such]", and a WHOLES clue is “Event in which the Earth casts a shadow”, then the answers ULNA, RELIC, and ESP can be anagrammed and assembled into LUNA/R ECLI/PSE. Both the REBUSES and the WHOLES clues are in no particular order, and you must determine which answer goes in which row of blanks.

The letters in the shaded squares, reading down, will form two words that can be anagrammed and assembled into the FINAL ANSWER: a fictional character named after a historical figure.

REBUSES

* [Like Bill Gates or Carlos Slim] + [_____ All Odds (Jeff Bridges film)] + [Voice of Dr. Cockroach in Monsters vs. Aliens]

* [Engrave with acid] + [Allison Janney sitcom] + [Cowboy contests]

* [Shrek, for one] + [Weekly earnings] + [Defunct record label founded by Trent Reznor]

* [Colony member who you REALLY don't want to look up on Google Image Search] + [Ultrathin MacBook] + ["Ashes to Ashes" and "Tears Are Falling" music video director David]

* [Salesman who becomes a giant insect] + ["Parting is ____ sweet sorrow" -Plucky Duck] + [Quiz or exam]

* [Pro's foe] + [MAD Magazine artist Torres] + [Best Picture Oscar winner released in 2012] + [Poker token]

* [Cy Young, for one] + [You, in Germany] + [Waist size]

* [Rajah and Shere Khan] + [Recycled tire] + [Edutainment software company whose titles include Sammy's Science House]

* [Pickled hot dog condiment] + [Word preceding "Spaces" or "Nest"] + [Golfer Ernie]

* [Pucker one's lips] + [Achmed Khan's younger brother in Backyard Baseball] + [Knobby, like lymphatic tissue]

* [Wagon wheel's groove] + [Partner in crime] + [Chrysalis and Elsa] + [Monies in Fullmetal Alchemist]

* [Color of Minerva Mink's fur] + [Watermelon covering] + [Winding road shape]

WHOLES

* Oddly-named New Mexico city

* Symbol similar to part of Radioshack's final(?) logo

* Magazine with yellow borders

* Bob Barker game show

* The only female judge to appear in every season of The Voice

* John Adams was his Vice President

* Music genre of KMFDM and Ministry

* Princess Daisy's debut game

* Drinks named after a former child star

* Ylvis' failed follow-up to "(What Does) The Fox (Say?)"

* Hayao Miyazaki's final(?) film

* "Three Times a Lady" band

Once you think you know what this week's FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com within the next two weeks and I'll put your name on a list of solvers once the answers are posted. You can also use those e-mail addresses to give me feedback and comments on my puzzle or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's "Zigzagnut" puzzle (which you can solve here, with an easier version here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, head below the break for just that!