ANSWERS: Diamond Rings 2

It's been thirteen days since "Diamond Rings 2" was posted on this blog, and nine people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

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

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

PUZZLE #281: Diamond Rings 2

PUZZLE #281

DIAMOND RINGS 2

To solve this puzzle, place one letter of each 5-letter answer into the correspondingly-numbered circle (or "ring"), and then put the other four letters into the surrounding diamonds in random order, while also making sure the diamonds' letters correctly overlap with each other. Each horizontal row's rings will have the same position in each answer word for that row (meaning that each ring in one row will be the second letter of each answer, and each ring in another row will be the third letter of each word, and so on). As an additional help, eight of the unshared diamonds have been filled in with letters.

Once the diagram is completely filled in, the letters in the rings, when read left to right, will spell out a clue to the FINAL ANSWER: an actor's name

1) The only part of "TGIF" that's five letters long
2) Cheesy tuna sandwiches
3) Mentally out of this world
4) Blue's _____ & You! (rebooted Nick Jr. show)
5) Electronic summoning device popular in the '90s
6) Words with Friends 2 developer
7) Not asleep
8) ABC _____ News Tonight
9) Completely loathe
10) Green dinosaur playable in Super Mario Kart
11) Midnight rendezvous
12) Quetzalcoatl worshipper of long ago
13) Department store that sells the Jennifer Lopez Collection
14) Nintendo DS puzzle game named after a light-refracting object
15) Sounds made by the answer to clue #5
16) "Werewolves of London" singer Warren
17) Last name of Elizabeth from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
18) Underneath
19) One who can't go home again, literally
20) I Am Spock author Leonard
21) They're hardly neat freaks
22) Where Mike Posner "took a pill" in his highest-charting single
23) Silver medal-winning figure skater Kerrigan
24) Skill needed to solve a Masyu puzzle
25) Requiem for a _____ (Darren Aronofsky film)
26) Clay character who's friends with Pokey and Prickle
27) Sugar substitute in a blue packet
28) Striking clock's sound
29) Cheddar-like cheese, or the Wisconsin town it originated from
30) Typical reaction to a bad pun told by Luan from The Loud House

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!

ANSWERS: Diamond Rings

No DeviantArt pic this week, so instead, here's a Picross puzzle of Pac-Man (mentioned in one of the clues to this puzzle) that I posted to Griddlers.net way back in 2004

Thirteen days have passed since "Diamond Rings" was posted on this blog, and eight people since then have successfully figured out the FINAL ANSWER, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Debbie Benford ***
• Eric Maddy ****
• Mom ****

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

NEWVEMBER! PUZZLE #205: Diamond Rings

NEWVEMBER!

PUZZLE #205

DIAMOND RINGS

To solve this puzzle, place one letter of each 5-letter answer into the correspondingly-numbered circle (or "ring"), and then put the other four letters into the surrounding diamonds in random order, while also making sure the diamonds' letters correctly overlap with each other. Each horizontal row's rings will have the same position in each answer word for that row (meaning that each ring in one row will be the second letter of each answer, and each ring in another row will be the third letter of each word, and so on). As an additional help, eight of the unshared diamonds have been filled in with letters.

Once the diagram is completely filled in, the letters in the rings, when read left to right, will spell out a clue to the FINAL ANSWER: a person's name

1) Binky from Garfield and Friends or Bozo, for example
2) Cartoonist Guisewite or her comic strip
3) Tree-like Guardians of the Galaxy member with a limited vocabulary
4) Orange soda brand that's a synonym for "compress"
5) Viking from newspaper comics
6) Attacked by a wasp
7) Shrek and his children, e.g.
8) Hit the books for an exam, say
9) Wang _____ ("Dance Hall Days" band)
10) Restaurant lists
11) John who was the first US Vice President
12) Puts it all on the line
13) Ice hockey venues
14) Healing character from Team Fortress 2
15) Video game company who made Pac-Man and Galaga
16) Tuba metal
17) The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, for one
18) Type of music used in many "Weird Al" medleys
19) Boxer Mike who had his own NES game
20) Katharine Hepburn's character in On Golden Pond
21) From the Earth to the Moon author Jules
22) Fast food side that can be crinkle-cut
23) Groovy gorilla playable in the Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
24) Miss _____ (porcine Muppet)
25) Clicking computer tool
26) Yellow egg parts
27) Cartoon Network's Johnny who repeatedly (and violently) fails to pick up women
28) Belgian bucks
29) Leprechaun who's a cereal mascot
30) Pale purple hue

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!