ANSWERS: Flower Power 9

Two weeks have passed by since "Flower Power 9" was posted on this blog, and eighteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Okieboy2008
• Derek Allen
• Sam Levitin
• Chris Kochmanski
• Adam Weaver
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #562: Flower Power 9

PUZZLE #562

FLOWER POWER 9

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a flowering plant

CLOCKWISE

1) Hawaiian island or a Hawaiian patio

2) "_____ Mind Set on You" (George Harrison song): 2 wds.

3) Complete beginners in online games, slangily

4) Villain from Othello and Jafar's parrot from Aladdin, for two

5) Japanese camera brand used by Veronica Mars

6) Herbie _____ Again (1974 sequel to The Love Bug)

7) Schindler who is buried in Jerusalem

8) Boxes of pre-prepared brownie ingredients

9) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Carroll

10) Body minus the head and limbs

11) Gets together, or events where runners get together

12) MTV hidden camera show that host Ashton Kutcher pretended to cancel after season 2

13) Chromosome components

14) Furious

15) John who co-wrote and co-sung "She's Gone" with Daryl Hall

16) Fix a shoelace that didn't get laced properly the first time

17) Ten or more of these equal a first down in football

18) Budapest-born billionaire George

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) "Slow" primate from Southeast Asia

2) En _____ (fencing phrase)

3) Taboos for a toddler: Hyph.

4) Greek letters that look like Roman numerals for 1

5) Tennis star Osaka

6) Raccoon from Regular Show who once got turned into a house (yes, really)

7) Greek yogurt brand sold by Dannon

8) Pre-Windows operating system with games such as Commander Keen: Hyph.

9) Compare, but not contrast

10) Southern state with the Bull Riding Hall of Fame

11) Grass-cutting machine

12) Fairies in Persian myth (anagram of SPIRE)

13) _____ Who? (board game with 24 faces to choose from)

14) Slowly, in classical music

15) Sows' sounds

16) Went "Oh my gosh, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life!", maybe

17) Hairy Himalayan creatures of legend

18) Full from food

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: Flower Power 8

It's been about two weeks since "Flower Power 8" was posted on this blog, and twenty people have successfully solved it since then, as you an see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Chris Kochmanski
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Stasi Gustafson
• Tamara Brenner
• Steve Gunter
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney
• Patrick Jordan
• Derek Allen

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #508: Flower Power 8

PUZZLE #508

FLOWER POWER 8

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!

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of an optical illusion

CLOCKWISE

1) New Agey auras

2) Quickly sped-through section of "The Alphabet Song"

3) Little bits, or letters in Ancient Greece

4) "¡Hasta _____!" (Spanish for "See you later!")

5) "Get _____ of yourself, man!": 2 wds.

6) Dull metallic thump

7) Like a barely audible sound

8) Material used for Beanie Babies and other stuffed toys

9) Soup stock

10) Libel and slander, for two

11) Sam who directed both Evil Dead II and Spider-Man 2

12) Act overdramatically

13) Swizzle _____

14) Burr played by Leslie Odom Jr. in Hamilton

15) Added to the staff

16) Sam Cooke song named after a Valentine's Day icon

17) Made a mosaic

18) One creating a leaf pile

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Logically sound

2) Gave a thumbs-up to a post on Facebook, perhaps,

3) Implant firmly: Var.

4) Introvert

5) Bugattis, Ferraris, and Infinitis

6) Like anything that costs less than a dollar

7) Gives a severe whupping to with a whip

8) São _____, Brazil

9) Duck hunter's hideout

10) Part of an elm or an elephant

11) Hens' house

12) The Day the _____ Stood Still ('50s sci-fi film)

13) "Will 2K" rapper Will

14) The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy creator Maxwell (or molecule parts)

15) Caribbean country east of Jamaica

16) Sorceress from Greek myths who often turns her enemies into pigs

17) Titular dinosaur hunter from a 1997 Nintendo 64 game (answer hidden in ARTURO KENNY)

18) Mature like a melon

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: Flower Power 7

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Flower Power 7" has been posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to provide the list of everyone who has solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #446: Flower Power 7

PUZZLE #446

FLOWER POWER 7

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise). These words make up the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a hit song from the 2000s and the musical act that recorded it

CLOCKWISE

1) Rowed a boat

2) _____ Canadian Mounted Police

3) Prickly patch in stories about Br'er Rabbit

4) Makes a run for it

5) Country that's home to the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum

6) Stenches

7) Mr. Heep who was created by Charles Dickens

8) Canines, but not felines

9) Kris _____ (early '90s rap duo known for wearing backwards clothing)

10) How great minds think, so it's said

11) "Are you kidding me??", in textspeak

12) Having too much wordy dialogue, like a book or movie

13) It can be past, present, or future, in grammar class

14) Lowest low point

15) Any one of the titular men from the play Twelve Angry Men

16) Number of Star Spirits that Mario needs to rescue in Paper Mario

17) Weird Al's first parody of a Michael Jackson song: 2 wds.

18) First listed ingredient on a tub of Duncan Hines frosting

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Word before "space" or "Mongolia"

2) _____ Cajun (roller coaster at Six Flags America with a rhyming name)

3) Sacha Baron Cohen character from Kazakhstan

4) Cooker in a fast food kitchen

5) Homeric epic set during the Trojan War

6) Former basketball player Jermaine or Shaquille (no relation)

7) Natural source of milk?

8) Number after deux

9) Bend It Like Beckham star Knightley

10) _____ of expertise

11) The slowest mammal in the world

12) "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store owner from The 40-Year-Old Virgin (anagram of SHIRT)

13) Items on a to-do list

14) Ronald Reagan's mother (HINT: Her name reverses to the name of actress Pompeo)

15) Malfunctioning, slangily

16) All lathered up

17) Synonym for "spooky" that's mostly vowels

18) Relish, as a relish-covered hot dog

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: Flower Power 6

Thirteen days have passed by since "Flower Power 6" was posted on this blog, and sixteen people since then have successfully solved it:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #391: Flower Power 6

PUZZLE #391

FLOWER POWER 6

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word 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!

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise). These words make up the FINAL ANSWER: A fictional character and the animated movie that she comes from

CLOCKWISE

1) Six _____ America (theme park near Washington, D.C.)

2) Japanese watch company

3) Basic fencing thrust

4) Pound signs are made up of four of these

5) Rowed a rowboat

6) Rocksteady from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, e.g. (HINT: His "nose" is a horn)

7) Dull, unoriginal, and jejune

8) Nickname for a golfer with an "army"

9) Delirious with delight

10) They're inserted into outlets

11) Law & _____ (NBC series revived in 2022)

12) Blew chunks (Apologies to those solving this first thing in the morning)

13) Sits for a snapshot

14) Alaska neighbor

15) Expert on impersonation

16) "I guess it wasn't _____ to be"

17) Window curtain

18) Fountain featured in the movie Roman Holiday

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Swiss coin

2) Got some shuteye

3) Vacate the premises

4) Mario & _____: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo DS game)

5) Animal sounds heard in the Beatles song "Piggies"

6) 2011 Western film about a chameleon in a town named Dirt

7) Number on the "B" and "C" tiles in Scrabble

8) Ram among the stars

9) Slide along a rail on a skateboard's board

10) 1970s Ford car with a reputation for exploding in rear-end collisions

11) Pop song released over a half-century ago, say

12) Puritanical sort

13) A bit on the chubby side

14) Neckwear for oxen?

15) Pondering person

16) Wired up for an interview, perhaps

17) Computer game samplers

18) "50 Ways to Say Goodbye" band

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: Flower Power 5

It's been roughly two weeks since "Flower Power 5" was posted on this blog, and an impressive eighteen people successfully solved it since then, making it my most successful "Flower Power" puzzle since..... well, my last "Flower Power" puzzle!

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Kevin Orfield
• Karen Spencer
• Alicia Lux
• Mom
• Sam Levitin
• Patrick Jordan
• Tamara Brenner
• Wendy Walker
• Meg Duvall
• Mindy Moore
• Debbie Benford
• Tyler Hinman
• Lynn Sweeney
• Peter Abide
• Pavel Curtis
• Giovanni Pagano

Now that the solvers have been listed, head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #346: Flower Power 5

PUZZLE #346

FLOWER POWER 5

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a video game creature

CLOCKWISE

1) "Incident in _____ Seven" (Rugrats episode set in a supermarket)

2) Jessica who made her cinematic debut in King Kong (1976)

3) DVD remote button that kinda resembles an 11

4) Corn, or its color

5) Handlebar coverings

6) Cookware company named after a pleasant smell

7) _____-baloney

8) Teeny-tiny amounts

9) Marry again

10) Certain web surfer from the '90s, according to crossword constructors

11) Tenet director Christopher

12) Appalachian Trail trekker

13) Slightly out of kilter

14) Hall & _____ (the most successful pop duo)

15) Late for school

16) Question regarding location

17) Female pirate captain from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

18) Packed with pecans, perhaps

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Gene, the "Singing Cowboy"

2) Soda bottle measurement, in Canada

3) Fusi, fusilli, or fettuccine

4) Ultra-masculine

5) 12-_____ shotgun

6) Crop up

7) Trinket in a box of Cracker Jacks, once

8) Breakup song by Gabby Barrett that got certified 5x Platinum: 2 wds.

9) Motel vacancies

10) Health insurance company whose current logo contains a purple heart

11) "That ain't ever gonna happen, dude!": 2 wds.

12) Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 _____ of Major Championship Golf (computer game)

13) Felt under the weather

14) First name of the title character from Schindler's List

15) Already reserved, as a seat

16) Liquid that contestants on Wipeout frequently fall into

17) Lost a boxing match on purpose

18) Food and shelter, for two

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: Flower Power 4

It's been close to two weeks since my fourth attempt at a "Flower Power" puzzle was posted here, and judging by the fact that eleven people solved it since then, I'd say that this effort was my most successful one of this type so far! Take a look:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #295: Flower Power 4

PUZZLE #295

FLOWER POWER 4

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of an anime series.

CLOCKWISE

1) Professor Dumbledore of Hogwarts

2) Chuck Norris' very brief appearance in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, for one

3) Her 2006 single "Bossy" went double platinum

4) Tierra del _____

5) Disorderly demonstrations

6) Grey's Anatomy star Pompeo

7) DC Comics superheroine who can use all animals' abilities (and is named after a female fox)

8) Verbally expressed awe at fireworks

9) Truck, in Great Britain

10) "Body Party" singer

11) Alphabetizes

12) Medieval poets

13) "Life with _____" (recurring KaBlam! segment)

14) Portion out

15) Burn perfume in church

16) Word said twice before "Who's there?", in a series of jokes

17) Sans-serif font designed to be similar to Helvetica

18) Gristmill product

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Literary character who said "Curiouser and curiouser!"

2) _____ and dagger

3) Afghanistan's capital

4) Strongest bone in the human body

5) Instructions on how to play whist, say

6) Old MacDonald's vowels

7) Journals on YouTube

8) "Slide Some _____ Me" (Tin Man's song from The Wiz): 2 wds.

9) Smoked salmon on bagels

10) Watch What Happens Live host Andy

11) Tornado alert

12) Surface for Stratego or Scrabble

13) Bucktoothed cucumber from VeggieTales

14) Large artery

15) Clumps of dirt (or people about as smart as clumps of dirt)

16) Certain seaweeds

17) Really rankle

18) Jack nipping at your nose

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: Flower Power 3

It's been thirteen days since I've posted "Flower Power 3", and just like last week, not a whole lot of you have solved it. Take a look:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Fortunately for me, my latest puzzle is at seven solvers right now, so at least we're back to the current average number of solvers. Anyways, enough about me worrying about numbers of solvers, head past the break below for the answers and a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #128: Flower Power 3

PUZZLE #128

FLOWER POWER 3

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, the numbered tips of petals #2 through #18 (skip #1), reading clockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: A hit song from the 2010s.

CLOCKWISE
1) _____: The Hands of Fate (infamously bad film made famous by Mystery Science Theater 3000)
2) 2007 Michael Moore documentary about the American health care system
3) Coll. whose mascot is Jonathan the Husky
4) Engine in an Infiniti
5) Author Mercer who wrote and drew the "Little Critter" books
6) Artist's stand
7) Cloak-wearing female member of the Teen Titans
8) Mountain range in Wyoming
9) Tiny Greek vowels?
10) Zebra voiced by Chris Rock in Madagascar
11) Gave birth to a lamb (Okay, fine, just remove the first letter from BEANED)
12) Cutesy nickname for the Man of Steel
13) Good to go, to NASA: Hyph.
14) Supermarket section that those with lactose intolerance might avoid
15) Padres and Pirates, according to really bad crossword fill
16) Residents of Endor
17) Narrow grooves on a rock
18) Like popcorn or potato chips

COUNTERCLOCKWISE
1) McGrath and McGwire
2) _____bury steak (I apologize profusely for this clue and its fill!)
3) Utah mountain chain (Answer hidden in PENGUIN TALK)
4) Real name of "Bones" from Star Trek
5) Evil henchmen easily dispatched by the heroes
6) "Jack Sprat could _____ fat...": 2 wds.
7) Silky synthetic fabric
8) Cop's electric weapon
9) "How can _____ repay you?": 2 wds.
10) Setting for Psycho
11) Actress Shirley who got painted gold in Goldfinger (and didn't actually die from it, mind you)
12) Plastic wrap brand
13) Zelda and Hilda, to Sabrina the Teenage Witch
14) The only one of the Seven Dwarfs with no beard
15) With no clothes on
16) Howe who invented perfected the sewing machine
17) Nickname of the video game director who did Deadly Premonition (Answer hidden in ANSWER YES)
18) One of 102 in the Empire State Building

I apologize for some of the lousier clues and words, but that the only way I could make this puzzle work. 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 that one 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!

ANSWERS: Flower Power 2

It's been thirteen days since I posted my second "Flower Power" puzzle, so this is the part where I reveal the people who sent me the correct answers, and here they are!

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

Now just head below the break for the answers! Just one user comment this time, so there's that, too.

PUZZLE #36: Flower Power 2

PUZZLE #36

FLOWER POWER 2

Yes, I've made another one of these, because I clearly didn't get the hint regarding how hard the first one was to make, let alone solve! On the plus side, unlike my first attempt at one of these puzzles, I had nutrimatic.org to assist me in creating it, so it only took several hours this time around (as opposed to a few days). Also, you might recall that in my initial effort, I didn't reveal which clue went in which direction. Well, since this puzzle will probably be hard enough as it is, I've changed my mind regarding that point, so hopefully you won't struggle as hard!

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, the numbered tips of each petal, reading clockwise, will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER.

CLOCKWISE

1) Use a bench, for instance: 2 wds.

2) _____ Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas villain)

3) Galaga creators

4) Ancient Greek colony

5) Given as a source

6) Slugger Sammy and his family

7) Japanese name of Jigglypuff

8) Resident of Cedar Rapids

9) Leonard who lived long and prospered

10) Harold went to White Castle with him

11) Secondhand Lions actor _____ Joel Osment

12) Pokemon with eight different evolutions, including Vaporeon

13) Soils, silts and such

14) Pasted

15) _____ Alive (Discovery Channel special that didn't live up to its name)

16) Villainous "Lord" from Wander Over Yonder

17) Rowed

18) Mentor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Adagio Dazzle or Sonata Dusk

2) Wayne Gretzky, from 1979 to 1988

3) Jotted down

4) An Othello villain and an Aladdin parrot

5) "You've Got Another Thing _____" (Judas Priest song)

6) What "syne" (as in "Auld Lang Syne") means

7) Latin word that "potion" originated from (Free Hint: Just get rid of one of the letters in "potion"!)

8) "_____ word that don't mean nothin', like 'looptid'" ("The Humpty Dance" lyrics): 3 wds.

9) They track Santa Claus every year at Christmas

10) Fuzzy green fruits

11) Deux Ex: _____ Revolution

12) Singer/swearer of "**** It (I Don't Want You Back)"

13) Postpone

14) With "The", Young Adult Dystopian novel by Lois Lowry

15) Latino TV network launched by Robert Rodriguez: 2 wds.

16) Lead-in for "cuisine" or "couture"

17) Hall's partner in pop

18) Like some private communities

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com 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!

ANSWERS: Flower Power

I'll freely admit that making my first Flower Power puzzle was pretty difficult and time consuming, and unless you did the easier version from last week, it turned out that solving it also wasn't easy. Despite that, however, I've still managed to get a decent amount of solvers for it, which you can see below in the order that they've completed it:

• Grant Fikes **
• Eric Maddy **
• Adam Weaver **
• Yossi Fendel **
• Mom *
• Sam & Jonathan *

Now just click "read more" for the answers! You'll also find some comments from Grant Fikes, the man whose "Cleverly-Titled Puzzle Blog" inspired me to make this blog!

EASY VERSION: Flower Power

I knew that first Flower Power puzzle of mine was going to be hard, and since only 4 people have managed to solve it so far, that just confirms it! If you want a version with easier clues that are actually sorted in separate clockwise and counterclockwise sections, just go below the break! (Warning: Expect a LOT of anagrams!) Remember to send me the FINAL ANSWER once you're done before next Sunday!

PUZZLE #7: Flower Power

PUZZLE #7

FLOWER POWER

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction. However, for this initial harder version, I won't reveal which answer goes in which direction! Once you're done, the numbered tips of each petal, reading clockwise, will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER.

Grid from Penny Press

CLUES

1)  Cocoon contents / Hungarian sheepdogs

2)  Ford and Lincoln / Network that went from Biography to Duck Dynasty

3)  Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature / Rabbit fur

4)  Elbow bones / Russian range

5)  Helga Von Guggen's bodyguard from Totally Spies! / Joyce Kilmer poem

6)  Thank You Shirl-_____ (Shawn Amos album) / Remove from the DVR

7)  Monster girls that are part snake / Character played by Parminder Nagra on ER

8)  Former child actor Willie / Raptor's roost

9)  Saturns and Dreamcasts / Sing-_____ (Mocking way of saying something like "I know something that yooouuu don't!")

10)  June who voiced Looney Tunes' Witch Hazel / Green-clad fairy from Sleeping Beauty

11)  Type of chemical bond / _____ Bored (Smosh series)

12)  Beautiful bat from the Sonic series / Actors' parts

13)  Super Smash Bros. for WiiU character with a "Zero Suit" / Actor Chiba from Kill Bill: Vol. 1

14)  Daughter of Ra's Al Ghul / Multiplication or periodic

15)  Upcoming wearable tech from Google / "Clay Shooting" mode in Duck Hunt (I may or may not have stupidly put part of the FINAL ANSWER's clue in most of this answer)

16)  Final Fantasy VII character famous for dying / Harry Potter's youngest son

17)  Recurring ranch owner from the Zelda series / Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

18)  Scottish Gaelic / Florida's 1,499-ft. Cox Radio Tower _____

I know a lot of these clues look difficult, obtuse, and/or are only known by certain people who play Nintendo and the like, but I'd like to use this opportunity to remind you that you are allowed to look up clues you don't know! (After all, I doubt anyone will know that Shawn Amos album otherwise; the answer for that one, admittedly, is some pretty awful fill) If you rather not look up the answers for whatever reason, I'll be publishing a different version of this puzzle next Sunday with easier clues.

As usual, if/when you figure out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com and I'll give you credit for solving it about two weeks from now. You can also use those email addresses to send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's puzzle (which you can solve either here or here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, head below the break to do just that!