PUZZLE #318
DECK IT OUT 6
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Fill in the answers to the clues below, then transfer the letters marked with
playing card symbols to their proper places in the grid below. The number (or
letter) of each clue will tell you what column to place those letters in. Once
it's completely filled in, the grid will spell out a sentence that will
provide a hint to the FINAL ANSWER.
This week's FINAL ANSWER is a noun
A) Beat _____ (Fox game show based off of a song-recognizing app)
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2) Artillery weapon that may shoot out a circus performer
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3) Princess Jasmine's father
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4) Season in South America when it's summer in North America
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5) Baltic country directly south of Estonia
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6) #1 song from the Flashdance soundtrack (other than the title tune)
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7) Vehicle in "Jingle Bells"
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8) Christina's World painter Wyeth
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9) Raccoon from Sonic Rush Adventure (or one of "The Few, The Proud")
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10) Video signal sent to networks airing live programming, say: 2 wds.
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J) Canada's capital
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Q) Feathered friend of Ronald McDonald (EASIER CLUE: One under par)
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K) _____ Word Score (space on the corners of a Scrabble board)
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Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
