ANSWERS: Honeycomb 7

It's been almost two weeks since "Honeycomb 7" was posted on this blog, and an impressive twenty-one people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Marie desJardins
• Dave C
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Derek Allen
• Wendy Walker
• Okieboy2008
• KeoFam
• Chris Kochmanski
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Steve Gunter
• Eli Zarconi
• SquishmallowsUnited
• Stasi Gustafson

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #569: Honeycomb 7

PUZZLE #569

HONEYCOMB 7

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!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word

1) Sips soup noisily

2) "O Holy Night" and "O Christmas Tree", e.g.

3) Prison guard

4) Fabrics sold at a white sale

5) _____, She Wrote (mystery TV series starring Angela Lansbury)

6) Measurement of three-dimensional space

7) Huge crowds of people

8) Pelted with pebbles, perhaps

9) Related to speech sounds

10) Donut relative whose name is French for "flash of lightning"

11) Tuskegee _____ (African-American pilots from WWII)

12) A.I. Artificial Intelligence director Spielberg

13) Someone who plays unfinished video games in order to find glitches and bugs

14) Can't help but do it: 2 wds.

15) Little _____ Annie (former comic strip)

16) Contact lens solution

17) Biblical book following Song of Solomon

18) Tony-nominated actor Slater and Oscar-nominated actor Hawke, for two

19) Incorrect guess on Family Feud signified by a big red "X"

20) Shakespearean agreement

21) Dressing table for an egotist?

22) Black-and-white tile used in the New York Times online game "Pips"

23) Strong urge

24) Strong urge for a drink

25) It's what the pot called black in an idiom calling out hypocrisy

26) Dissimilar

27) _____ veiled (barely concealed)

28) With "The", "Bigmouth Strikes Again" band (EASIER CLUE: Horseshoe forgers)

29) Heifer relatives such as Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life

30) Clown's walking sticks?

31) Multicar crash: Hyph.

32) Chastise or penalize, such as giving a time-out

33) Serpents' sounds

34) Twizzlers Filled _____ (swirly licorice candy with creamy stuff in the middle)

35) Platinum-selling single from Devo's platinum-selling album Freedom of Choice: 2 wds.

36) Capote actor Seymour Hoffman

37) Goes from second to third gear, say

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: Honeycomb 6

It's been almost two weeks since "Honeycomb 6" was posted on this blog, and an astounding twenty people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #504: Honeycomb 6

PUZZLE #504

HONEYCOMB 6

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!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the 6-letter name of a fictional character

1) Largest Native American tribe

2) Technical language that may make no sense to a layman

3) Second-to-last rainbow color

4) Relax after a hard day at work

5) Harold and the Purple _____ (children's book)

6) Takes pleasure in

7) Luncheon of the Boating Party painter Pierre-Auguste

8) The King of Queens actress and People Puzzler host Leah

9) Country that borders Mozambique and Zambia

10) Entertainer Miranda well-known for her fruit hats

11) Luxury boats perfect for listening to Christopher Cross's "Sailing" on

12) Black _____ cake (German dessert)

13) More promising

14) Whom Simple Simon met

15) Pacific cooling phenomenon whose name is Spanish for "The Girl": 2 wds.

16) High point, or a former TV manufacturer bought out by LG in 1999

17) Halloween Is _____ Night (Emmy-winning TV special featuring Dr. Seuss' green meanie)

18) Series of stairs

19) Very many: 2 wds.

20) Colt Mustang or Desert Eagle, for one

21) Not out of bounds, as a soccer ball: 2 wds.

22) Carelessly playing (with), like someone's feelings

23) Purple-maned fashionista pony from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (or something very uncommon)

24) _____ of error

25) Alfred who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004)

26) "Purring" parts of cars

27) In abundance

28) Bon _____, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) (1980 film)

29) Evening Shade star Henner

30) Season for "leaf peeping"

31) Isles from Rizzoli & Isles, and other namesakes

32) Trap also known as a "deer-leap" (HINT: Despite its name, it has nothing to do with pepper's partner)

33) Sires, Biblically speaking

34) Freddi Fish's best friend in the Freddi Fish computer games (or the middle name of MLK)

35) Indisputable facts

36) The _____ Dodger (pickpocket from Oliver Twist)

37) Grownups

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: Honeycomb 5

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Honeycomb 5" was posted on this blog, and an impressively high twenty-one people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• KeoFam
• Tamara Brenner
• Tyler Hinman
• Patrick Jordan
• Thomas Boatwright
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Perry Groot
• Lynn Sweeney
• Shannon Milbourne
• Michael Lebowitz
• Wendy Walker
• Al Sisti

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #456: Honeycomb 5

PUZZLE #456

HONEYCOMB 5

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word

1) Real last name of Dr. Seuss

2) Lost love lamented in Poe's "The Raven"

3) Heavily edit a manuscript, say

4) Talk aimlessly or walk aimlessly

5) Writing utensil that may be filled with glittery ink: 2 wds.

6) "_____ Bell Rock" (1950s Christmas song)

7) Yanked abruptly

8) Lower the lights

9) _____ Tussauds (wax museum in many cities)

10) Very small dress size

11) The answer to clue #27, but tripled

12) Brought bad luck to

13) Drop Dead Gorgeous actress Richards

14) Goldfish with legs from The Amazing World of Gumball (HINT: He's most likely named after evolutionist Charles)

15) Curie and Osmond, for two

16) Bold font used in many Grumpy Cat memes (or a synonym for "collision")

17) In a _____ manner (punctually)

18) Canadian wildcats with tufted ears

19) Applies force

20) Like paths in a maze

21) Video game attorney Phoenix or real life aviator Orville

22) Pay no attention to

23) Not subject to a certain law

24) Blocky dots

25) 3D solid with no edges

26) _____ of Versailles (pact signed at the end of World War I)

27) Number of days in September

28) Unseen from someone acting as a seeker, perhaps

29) Albuquerque, New _____

30) Alternate name for "zero"

31) Nuke in the microwave again

32) Like a body described in Issac Newton's first law: 2 wds.

33) "What gets wetter the more it dries?", for one (For the record, the answer is "a towel")

34) Metal used for the Statue of Liberty's skin

35) Arnold Schwarzenegger movie where he works with the Witness Protection Program (or a pencil part)

36) Eyeball or muscle pain caused by overuse

37) Gretel's brother

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: Honeycomb 4

It's been nearly two weeks since "Honeycomb 4" was posted on this blog, and plenty of people have solved it since then (over fifteen, in fact):

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #405: Honeycomb 4

PUZZLE #405

HONEYCOMB 4

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a 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!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word

1) The northernmost capital in the United States

2) _____ Augustus (Roman emperor who, ironically, wasn't born in August)

3) Ascent automaker

4) Gave shelter to

5) Apple music application that debuted before Apple Music

6) Nickname of a supposed loch resident

7) Relatives of minks and martens

8) _____ jeopardy

9) Bun, bob, or beehive, e.g.

10) Bright green topping on a Chicago-style hot dog

11) Dorough from the Backstreet Boys and Mandel from America's Got Talent, for two

12) Not very sensible

13) Gassed up a jet

14) Attacked the fridge, maybe

15) Syndrome's female assistant in The Incredibles

16) Practices one of the three R's (specifically, the one listed before "recycle")

17) Greek island once home to the Ancient Wonder known as the Colossus

18) Descend: 2 wds.

19) Relating to mushrooms and yeast

20) Overly ornate

21) Inflatable part of a steering wheel

22) Car repair shop

23) Fast & Furious 6 actor Gibson

24) City that's home to Texas A&M International University

25) "We Have the Meats", to Arby's

26) Tesla who invented the Tesla coil

27) _____ Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (point-and-click adventure game)

28) American Red Cross founder Clara

29) Home for a beekeeper's hives

30) Ongoing story, such as a soap opera

31) Shown to one's seat: 2 wds.

32) Performing a feint on a hockey rink

33) Remove a salmon's skeleton, say

34) It's "in the Sky" in a Norman Greenbaum song

35) "history of the _____ world, i guess" (animated YouTube video with over 146 million views)

36) Navy rank that's above no other rank

37) Exceptionally talented

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: Honeycomb 3

It's been close to two weeks since "Honeycomb 3" was posted on this blog, and a whopping twenty people have solved it since then! Take a look:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Giovanni Pagano
• Dave C.
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Tamara Brenner
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Tyler Hinman
• Patrick Jordan
• Mindy Moore
• Meg Duvall
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tommy Weigle
• Debbie Benford
• Peter Abide
• Dan Simonds

Now with that list out of the way, head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #355: Honeycomb 3

PUZZLE #355

HONEYCOMB 3

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word

1) Alaska's highest mountain

2) _____ Rouge! (musical directed by Baz Luhrmann)

3) Ricky Martin's old boy band

4) Accustoms to hardship [NOTE: Either spelling will fit, but my answer has no repeating letters]

5) Fighting game character's posture

6) _____ rasa (blank slate)

7) Has skepticism about

8) Coercion

9) Bring back a long-dormant media franchise, say

10) Ryan from The Drew Carey Show

11) Periods of equilibrium

12) Kind of droopy-eared hound

13) Incredible bargains

14) Bread aisle array

15) The "X" in Professor X's name

16) Bring in goods from Greece, maybe

17) Most impolite

18) Hyundai's Accent and Sonata, for two

19) "Wabbit _____!" "Duck _____!"

20) Greetings from the 50th state

21) Pulled a fast one

22) It's tested by bopping a knee with a hammer

23) Brain cell that acts on impulse

24) Like medieval England

25) Bump's idiomatic location: 3 wds.

26) Buddies in Barcelona

27) Hillary Clinton's maiden name

28) Sings like the climber in the Price is Right game "Cliff Hangers"

29) Overwhelm with noise

30) _____ of Seagulls (new wave band with three Top 40 hits): 2 wds.

31) "I think", according to Descartes

32) License needed to legally hunt

33) Winnie the Pooh character with a detachable tail

34) Archimedes' cry of triumph

35) Hole in a pool table

36) Gadget that played CD-ROM games on the go, once

37) Gone off to beddy-bye

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: Honeycomb 2

Thirteen days have passed since "Honeycomb 2" was posted onto this blog, and thirteen is also the number of people who have solved it since then, as you can see in the following list:

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

I don't have any solvers' comments to provide this time around, but you can still view the answers below the break as always!

PUZZLE #302: Honeycomb 2

PUZZLE #302

HONEYCOMB 2

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter noun

1) Makeup applied with a puff

2) Color of Waluigi's cap

3) Gentle breeze near the end of a dictionary

4) Conspiracy _____

5) Polished a Porsche, perhaps

6) Word following "stick" or "father"

7) Madonna song that samples ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)": 2 wds.

8) First name of a nursery rhyme egg found in Through the Looking-Glass

9) Sorry situation

10) Kids' welfare org. with Halloween donation boxes

11) Designer of a famed French tower

12) Roman _____ (current WWE Universal Champion)

13) "Cars" singer Gary and his daughters

14) Bit of Baskin-Robbins ice cream in a tiny spoon, say

15) Made water so hot, it bubbled over

16) Insect with a 17-year life cycle

17) King whose album Tapestry obtained Diamond status

18) Secret groom

19) All episodes of Gunsmoke, nowadays

20) Egyptian god who leads souls to the afterlife

21) Increased a poker bet

22) First name of "Mad Dog" Tannen from Back to the Future Part III

23) Half of a circle's diameter

24) _____ My Mom Will Shoot (film that Sylvester Stallone regrets making): 2 wds.

25) Don Carlos and Don Giovanni, for two

26) Resident of Oranjestad

27) White mouse from The Rescuers Down Under voiced by Eva Gabor

28) All lined up: 3 wds.

29) Secondhand apartment rental

30) Definitely gonna: 2 wds.

31) Hostile attitude

32) Culpeo or coyote

33) Crustaceous claw

34) Monarchs and measuring sticks

35) Thigh bones

36) Evoke a forgotten memory

37) The Wrestler director Aronofsky

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!

ANSWERS: Honeycomb

It's been almost two weeks since my first proper "Honeycomb" puzzle was posted on this blog, and an impressive twelve people have correctly solved it since then, all of whom you can view in this list:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Debbie Benford ***
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Eric Maddy ****

Now head below the break for the answers and some solver comments!

JA-NEW-ARY! PUZZLE #264: Honeycomb

JA-NEW-ARY!

PUZZLE #264

HONEYCOMB

It's a brand new decade! And to celebrate it, I'm gonna do another theme month in the form of JA-NEW-ARY! It'll be similar to back when I did "Newvember" in 2018, which means that every puzzle slated to be posted this month will be all-new to this blog!

To start off, let's begin with "Honeycomb": a reworking of a puzzle type that was originally planned to be published in mid-2015 (Whoa, has it really been that long? It must be, 'cuz I completely forgot about this blog's fifth anniversary last month! My bad!). My original plan was to have multiple hexagons spell out a clue that would lead to the FINAL ANSWER, but that wound up being easier said than done, and it resulted in a few entries with terrible fill. Since this was before I had a test solver to rely upon, I called on Grant Fikes to try and help me, but even he couldn't help, so I pretty much gave up on it. On the plus side, this incident inspired Grant to make a Honeycomb puzzle of his own, which you can access right here if you're interested (and you can click here for the answers). Grant's version had eight shaded hexagons which unscramble to spell out the FINAL ANSWER, but for this new Honeycomb puzzle of mine, I decided on a different way of getting a FINAL ANSWER. Read on to find out what that is, as well as how to solve it!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter noun

1) Dudley Dursley's father and Harry Potter's uncle
2) Former Miami Dolphin QB Dan
3) Insect's midsection
4) Sword holder
5) "Ridin' Solo" singer Jason
6) White and purple root vegetable
7) A ______ (deduction-based reasoning)
8) Lifts up the mizzenmast, maybe
9) Lilo's alien "pet" in a 2002 Disney movie
10) Cough drop brand whose ads feature a large Alphorn
11) Greeting to a naval officer
12) Car radio button that quickly changes to a new station
13) Name of Tennessee Williams' streetcar
14) Suppress inappropriate laughter
15) Tutti _____ (ice cream flavor)
16) 1997 film about a dog that plays basketball: 2 wds.
17) Evil unicorn king from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (or the Spanish word for "shadow")
18) Heavy burdens
19) Pressed "Start" while playing Super Mario Bros. 3, perhaps
20) Combined, as funds
21) Gardenia or geranium, e.g.
22) Hardy's partner in comedy
23) Gray raincloud
24) Gymnast Biles with four Olympic gold medals
25) Fine distinction
26) Like two peas _____: 3 wds.
27) Genre for the Penguins and the Flamingos: Hyph.
28) Gardener's spade
29) Son of Apollo Creed
30) "Alright, alright, just give me one moment!": 3 wds.
31) Outdoor meal eaten on a blanket
32) Lake where the 1980 Winter Olympics took place
33) Acclaimed first-person puzzle video game with an erratic A.I. named GLaDOS
34) Second reindeer called out by Santa in "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
35) Minute Waltz composer
36) Metal Coke container: 2 wds.
37) _____ Beach: The Real Orange County (MTV reality(?) show)

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!