ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 12

About two weeks have gone by since "Compound Crosswords 12" was posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to post the list of everyone who has solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cathy Bowen
• Marie desJardins
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Okieboy2008
• Derek Allen
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Chris Kochmanski
• Patrick Jordan
• Kevin Orfield
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #585: Compound Crosswords 12

PUZZLE #585

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 12

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word

CLUES

• 7–10 _____ (dreaded sight for bowlers)

• Betty Spaghetty, Baby Alive, or any one of the Bratz, e.g.

• Bodily organ punnily described as an "air bag"

• "_____ Child (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix song)

• Deneb, for one (HINT: It's part of the constellation Cygnus)

• Empty's opposite

• Honking waterfowl such as Gladstone Gander

• Large group of groupers (or any other sort of fish)

• Locale for trials in the Ace Attorney series

• One Battle _____ Another (Golden Globe-winning Leonardo DiCaprio film)

• Part of a baseball fanatic's season pass

• Puzzle magazine with "The World's Most Ornery Crossword"

• Reduce prices slightly (or reduce a full head of hair to nothing, in a way)

• Set of stairs

• Tosses yolk-filled ammunition

• Use Yahoo (which now uses results from Bing), perhaps

• Waffle _____ (kitchen device used to make... well, waffles)

• Well-balanced artwork hanging from the ceiling

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 11

It's been almost two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 11" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Cathy Bowen
• Grant Fikes
• Marie desJardins
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Chris Kochmanski
• SquishmallowsUnited
• Patrick Jordan
• KeoFam
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #525: Compound Crosswords 11

PUZZLE #525

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 11

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word

CLUES

• 2010 indie film about a living car tire on a killing spree (or what a car tire's made of)

• Bean-shaped organ that filters blood

• Breathes like a tired terrier

• Chicago _____ Sox

• Emma who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Poor Things

• Fast, like the brown fox that jumps over the lazy dog

• Installed on the wall, as a painting

• Judge, _____, and executioner

• NBA player from Milwaukee

• Part of CBS or GPS

• Restaurant chain that once offered $5 footlongs

• Rock _____ 2 (2008 video game where you can play guitar, drums, or vocals)

• Royal residency that you try to hit in the pinball game Medieval Madness

• Sir Hiss from Disney's Robin Hood, for one

• Stephen who wrote The Running Man under the pseudonym Richard Bachman

• _____-Sun (pouched juice brand)

• Tsuyu from My Hero Academia has all the powers of this hopping amphibian

• "U Got the Look" singer

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 10

It's been nearly two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 10" was posted on this blog, and a whopping nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• M. Sean Molley
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Wendy Walker
• Chris Kochmanski
• Tamara Brenner
• Tower
• Mom
• Sam Levitin
• Patrick Jordan
• Josie Giles
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney
• KeoFam

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #482: Compound Crosswords 10

PUZZLE #482

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 10

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word or phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word

CLUES

• Bank's big safe

• Butter-cutting utensil

• _____ Dare (Nickelodeon game show)

• Funny folks who are real stand-up guys?

• Greek letter between beta and delta

• "Hand in My _____" (Alanis Morissette song)

• Horse gait faster than a walk, but slower than a canter

• Husband of Edith Bunker in All in the Family

• Legal matter that may be open-and-shut

• _____-link fence

• MLB team based in Tampa Bay

• Opposite of "outer", as in "outer planets"

• Shape with no corners

• Spinning cylinder in front of a barbershop

• _____ Stone Creamery (ice cream parlor founded in Arizona)

• Three strikes in a row, in bowling

• Tomboyish princess playable in Super Mario Bros. Wonder (or an oxeye, say)

• Whole structure of a human being

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 9

It's been almost two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 9" was posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to reveal the list of all sixteen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Michael Lebowitz
• Perry Groot
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• Wendy Walker
• Mike Armstrong
• Mom
• KeoFam
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steven McKinney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #438: Compound Crosswords 9

PUZZLE #438

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 9

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word

CLUES

• Before & _____ (common Wheel of Fortune category)

• Classic rock band whose first #1 song was "Best of My Love"

• Fish that Fonzie jumped over in an infamous Happy Days episode

• "Headline _____" ("Weird Al" song about three mid-'90s tabloid stories)

• Home team's opponent

• Joe DiMaggio, for his entire MLB career

• Like Michael Chiklis or Michael Jordan, hair-wise

• Member of the species Homo sapiens

• Moist towelette

• Place to put in a plug

• Pointy protrusion from the head of an oryx or ibex

• Quebec's only official language

• Scribbly drawing

• Shere Khan from TaleSpin and The Jungle Book, for one

• Stash, stockpile, or stow away (HINT: It also starts with "S")

• Superfast superhero from DC Comics, with “The”

• _____ Valley (brand of granola bars)

• What a 1-up mushroom grants in the Super Mario Bros. games

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 8

It's been close to two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 8" was posted on this blog, so it's time for me to reveal the thirteen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Tamara Brenner
• Sam Levitin
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #387: Compound Crosswords 8

PUZZLE #387

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 8

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word

CLUES

• All Quiet on the Western _____ (Best Picture Oscar winner from 1930)

• Awful auditory agony

• Caucasian

• Crimson, coral, cobalt, chartreuse, and cyan, to name a few

• Enter key's replacement for some computers (like the Commodore 64)

• Gene Autry played a singing one on film and television

• George who once said "I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"

• Hardy's partner in comedy

• Hockey puck hitter

• "Infantile" Justin Bieber song whose title is sung about 56 times

• Leafy ring seen around Christmastime

• Not false

• Part of "PIN" or "SSN"

• 63 ÷ 7

• Starts up, as a Macintosh or Windows PC

• Tumble over due to bad footing

• Use a rod and reel at a river, perhaps

• _____ Video (Amazon's streaming service)

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 7

It's been thirteen days since "Compound Crosswords 7" was posted on this blog, and thirteen is also the number of people who have successfully solved it:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Kevin Orfield
• Karen Spencer
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• Tyler Hinman
• Mom
• Peter Abide
• Patrick Jordan
• Meg Duvall
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney

No solver comments this week, but you can still head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #344: Compound Crosswords 7

PUZZLE #344

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 7

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a pinball machine made up of a compound word

CLUES

• Burrow like a gopher

• Comic book company (which isn't DC or Marvel) that publishes Spawn

• _____-crystal display

• Dental cap

• Distorted funhouse feature

• "Foolish Games" singer

• Genre featured on MTV's Headbangers Ball

• Mining tool used by Stinky Pete the Prospector from Toy Story 2

• Nocturnal birds that deliver acceptance letters to Hogwarts

• Not costing a single cent

• Plastic piece in Trivial Pursuit

• Smooth down in woodshop class

• Tintin's dog, who's white like winter weather

• Titular "Stallion of the Cimarron" from a 2002 DreamWorks film

• Unit of cabbage

• Wanda_____ (Disney+ show)

• Word following "booster" or "flu"

• Ziggy Stardust's instrument

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 6

It's been close to two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 6" was posted on this blog, and twelve people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano *
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #305: Compound Crosswords 6

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #305

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 6

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the title of a horror TV series made up of a compound word.

CLUES
* 2013 Disney movie with the quote "You can't marry a man you just met"

* "Borrow" a song snippet to use in one's own song

* Disposable hanky

* Flammable stick that you shouldn't play with

* It beats rock, but loses to scissors

* Mort who created Beetle Bailey

* Not "rotten", on Rotten Tomatoes

* Number of members in a "Fantastic" Marvel superhero group

* Pinion's partner

* Polishing brand whose slogan is "Keeping your furniture clean and beautiful"

* Retired Monopoly token with a handle

* Rodeo _____ (1990 game show inspired by a street in Beverly Hills)

* Short piece of video

* Stage musical that the hit song "One Night in Bangkok" came from

* _____ Stone Creamery

* Surname of Scary, Sporty, and Posh

* Uncool shape?

* With "The", critically-acclaimed HBO crime drama set in Baltimore

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 5

Happy New Year! Before I reveal the answers to "Compound Crosswords 5" from a couple weeks ago, I'd like to list the nine people who have successfully solved it:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Kevin Orfield ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as some solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #262: Compound Crosswords 5

PUZZLE #262

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 5

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word.

CLUES
* _____ and the Beat (The Go-Go's album)
* Basalt or granite, for one
* Bookcase section
* Cereal that Mikey likes
* Cooks chicken like Colonel Sanders
* "Fat Bottomed Girls" band
* Five-sided baseball plate
* How I Met Your _____ (sitcom with over 200 episodes)
* It's signified by an "X" in Family Feud
* Leprechaun on a cereal box
* Like Copernicus or Chopin, say
* Low-pH substance
* Oscar the Grouch's fur color
* Place to buy a fat pig in a nursery rhyme
* Pointer on an Enter key
* Red Hot Chili Peppers member who voiced Donnie in The Wild Thornberrys
* Shoe part that's directly under the laces
* What a hammer hammers

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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 4

A picture of Amy Rose, mentioned in the clue for SONIC

It's been almost two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 4" was posted on this blog, and nine people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as three solver comments!

PUZZLE #232: Compound Crosswords 4

PUZZLE #232
COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 4

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a title made up of a compound word.

CLUES
* 1982 arcade game where you control a sight organ wearing a hat (yes, really)
* Barenaked Ladies album with the #1 hit "One Week"
* Blue hedgehog loved by a pink hedgehog named Amy Rose
* Country that's home to Istanbul (not Constantinople)
* _____ 'Em Up (tongue-in-cheek action film from 2007)
* Fish that's a lot like a manta ray
* Fountain of _____
* "Informer" rapper
* Laid-back cheetah from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
* Liberals' wing
* Like someone who doesn't feel like working
* Mrs. Doubtfire actress Sally
* Multiply by two
* Not yours
* Place one's car in a handicapped space, maybe
* Public bathroom's hand dryer
* Successfully hit the tarmac
* "The quicker picker-upper", according to ads

Apologies in advance for the harder clues that I came up with. Anyways, 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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 3

It's been almost two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 3" was posted on this blog, and once again, ten people have correctly gotten the FINAL ANSWER, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Michael Avanessian ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #197: Compound Crosswords 3

PUZZLE #197

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 3

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word.

CLUES
* Airheaded heiress from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
* _____ Blanket Bingo
* Card game with seats named after compass directions
* Cheers actress Shelley
* Edible ice cream container
* Gold's and Planet Fitness, for two
* Largemouth fish
* Massive _____ (influential trip hop group)
* Melted ice
* Sixteen ounces
* Slash's instrument
* Steve Martin sports a huge one in Roxanne (1987)
* Tiptoe stealthily
* Took a photo of
* Trailer Park _____ (long-running Canadian TV show)
* Type of button that turns on a computer
* Word in the title of a Kipling book about Mowgli
* Write one's name on the dotted line

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 a version you can print out!