ANSWERS: Lucky Sevens 16

About two weeks have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 16" was posted on this blog, and an astounding twenty-one people have solved it since then! Take a look:

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

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

PUZZLE #605: Lucky Sevens 16

PUZZLE #605

LUCKY SEVENS 15

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!

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word associated with grammar

ROWS

i) Literal pen name that's also a brand of lighters

ii) "Roger that"

iii) Playful prank

iv) The titular Abbott Elementary, for one

v) Stock character defined by her innocence & naïveté

vi) Talking white cat from Sailor Moon (or the Greek goddess of the hunt)

vii) Stringed instrument whose name is an anagram of INSEAMS

viii) Abbr. preceding a date on a cornerstone

ix) _____ Boot (1980s German film about a submarine)

x) Article that may go before the word "article"

xi) Letter in American Sign Language formed by sticking out the pinkie and thumb

SEVENS

1) Type of delivery for when it absolutely, positively has to be here right now: Hyph.

2) Skilled breadmaker, for one

3) Wolfs down

4) Connived and conspired

5) Former Supreme Court justice Scalia

6) Ludicrously abundant

7) "_____ Race" (Queen song about how much the singer wants to ride his two-wheeler)

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: Lucky Sevens 15

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 15" was posted on this blog, and plenty of people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #561: Lucky Sevens 15

PUZZLE #561

LUCKY SEVENS 15

Before we get to the directions, I wanted to alert you all that there's been a small change in them. Normally, the FINAL ANSWER is read in the colored squares using the numeric order of the seven Sevens. However, I was unable to get a proper word out of my usual extraction system this time, so I had to resort to having the FINAL ANSWER be read backwards. I put this warning here (and on this puzzle's original post back on my Patreon page) because I'm just paranoid that any solvers who have done this type of puzzle multiple times would go into autopilot and thus get confused that the colored squares don't seem to make a proper word this time. I don't know if those worries of mine would've been justified or not, but what's done is done, so now it's time to get to the directions proper (which aren't nearly as long as this opening paragraph!).

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, read the letters in the colored squares in the reverse order of the Sevens that they appear in (in accordance of the colors of the rainbow, starting with the red square in the Seven marked with a 7) to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter place

ROWS

i) "Mad" messy-haired witch from Disney's The Sword in the Stone

ii) Chimpanzee who escaped from a Serbian zoo twice (or the first parts of a Green Eggs and Ham character)

iii) Birth year of the Roman emperor Claudius, which is about a decade before AD started: 2 wds.

iv) Skyscraper's supporting beam

v) Alex Keaton's "material girl" of a sister in Family Ties

vi) _____ for Godot (play whose title character never shows up)

vii) Giant sea monsters seen in both versions of Clash of the Titans

viii) Credit card company whose cards have a dove hologram on them

ix) Actor Barinholtz who won both Celebrity Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

x) Musical note before the scale loops back to "do"

xi) Letter above a sleeping comic strip character's head

SEVENS

1) "Fly Away" and "Dig In" rock singer Lenny

2) Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii

3) Adjective for a falcon statuette in a Humphrey Bogart movie

4) "_____ Country Song" (platinum-certified country single that hates bro-country): 3 wds.

5) Muscle-to-bone connectors

6) Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy

7) Copycat's talent

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: Lucky Sevens 14

It's been nearly two weeks since "Lucky Sevens 14" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #512: Lucky Sevens 14

PUZZLE #512

LUCKY SEVENS 14

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word associated with video games

ROWS

i) First word in Iowa's most populated city

ii) Mai _____ (alcoholic drinks)

iii) "Golden Age of Hollywood" icon Clark

iv) Someone who joined Sam's Club, say

v) Assign to a job

vi) Snow-White's sister in a fairy tale that has just one dwarf (not seven): Hyph.

vii) More massive

viii) Cereal with flavored pieces such as Raspberry Red and Orangey Orange

ix) Pimple

x) Decisive victory in the boxing video game Punch-Out!!: Abbr.

xi) Letter on the cover of Sue Grafton's final alphabet-themed mystery novel

SEVENS

1) Wayne who was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame the same year he retired

2) Actress Dawson who voiced Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie

3) Bon _____ (French phrase meaning "Enjoy your meal")

4) Former cassette tape manufacturer that went bankrupt in 1996

5) More talkative

6) Rearmost part: 2 wds.

7) Baked Alaska or Mississippi mud pie, e.g.

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: Lucky Sevens 13

It's my last post of 2023, but I don't have anything special to provide you all other than the list of sixteen people who have solved "Lucky Sevens 13" from two weeks ago:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #470: Lucky Sevens 13

PUZZLE #470

LUCKY SEVENS 13

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS

i) Clorox bottle

ii) Area in Microsoft Word with options like "File", "Edit", and "View"

iii) Boring and blah

iv) Coca-Cola soda that comes in "Grapefruit Citrus" and "Peach Citrus" flavors

v) Cootie _____ (paper fortune teller)

vi) New shoots for a failed film scene

vii) Last name of Phil and Lil from Rugrats

viii) Soap ingredient from a spiny plant

ix) Segment of The Amazing Race (or any long race in general)

x) Jordan Peele movie with doppelgängers in red clothes called "the Tethered"

xi) Letter that consists of a single dot in Morse code

SEVENS

1) Make an item's worth worse

2) Repairs ceramic squares

3) Sears' Christmas-themed "Wish Book", for one

4) _____ Juice (Judy Blume book about a kid who wants sun spots on his face)

5) Screaming spirit from Irish folklore

6) Threatens

7) Type of vein that moves blood from the head to the heart

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: Lucky Sevens 12

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 12" was posted on this blog. Plenty of people have solved it since then, and they're all listed below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #425: Lucky Sevens 12

PUZZLE #425

LUCKY SEVENS 12

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS

i) "Oh well, that's show _____!"

ii) Greek goddess of marriage

iii) Microsoft Windows' Blue Screen of Death is caused by one

iv) Fix a faulty faucet, say

v) Chili pepper that's also the name of French Guiana's capital

vi) Not naturally formed

vii) Defacers

viii) Playing cards with double-digit numbers

ix) Capp and Capone, for two

x) The only US state abbr. with the 7th letter of the alphabet

xi) Vowel on a compass

SEVENS

1) Place with a great view

2) Nelson who was portrayed by Morgan Freeman in Invictus

3) Group of three Caribbean islands south of Cuba

4) Annuls an amendment

5) Chore-related outings

6) Wonder Woman (but not Wonder Man), e.g.

7) JoJo's _____ Adventure (long-running manga series)

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: Lucky Sevens 11

Thirteen days have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 11" was posted on this blog, and an astounding twenty-two people have successfully solved it since then! Take a look:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• "CromsFury"
• Wendy Walker
• Sam Levitin
• Meg Duvall
• Mom
• Charles Flaster
• Patrick Jordan
• Steven McKinney
• Michael Lebowitz
• Anna Tommasi
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tamara Brenner
• Brittany Trofimovich
• Brad Eldredge
• Peter Abide
• Elliott Frankfother

Great job, everyone! Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #379: Lucky Sevens 11

PUZZLE #379

LUCKY SEVENS 11

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!

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS
i) Marxist Guevara whose image is on t-shirts sold via capitalism

ii) Floating star-like creature from Super Mario Galaxy (anagram of MAUL)

iii) Mass _____ transit system

iv) Fairy tale character who pushes a witch into an oven

v) Italian version of "Mister"

vi) Catch in a web

vii) Sad songs and story-telling songs

viii) Surf rock guitarist Dick who performed "Misirlou"

ix) Hospital tubes, briefly

x) Postal abbr. for the Cornhusker State

xi) Rating for exactly one film released theatrically in 2021 (It's PAW Patrol: The Movie, for the record)

SEVENS

1) Like a head with a large receding hairline

2) Force into subservience

3) Uses a car's blinkers, say

4) Holy Hand _____ of Antioch (weapon used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

5) NBA team whose name was inspired by Jurassic Park

6) Animated candelabra who sings "Be Our Guest"

7) Actor Don who dons the "War Machine" suit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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: Lucky Sevens 10

Roughly two weeks have passed by since "Lucky Sevens 10" was posted on this blog, and a whopping seventeen people have successfully solved it since then! Not only that, every single one of them used zero hints to do so:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Karen Spencer ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Tamara Brenner ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Wendy Walker ****
• Lbray53 ****
• Marich ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Peter Abide ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****
• Debbie Benford ****

Speaking of hints, I'm finally set to implement that new hint system starting tomorrow after teasing it for the past few weeks. So while you wait for that to happen, head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #327: Lucky Sevens 10

PUZZLE #327

LUCKY SEVENS 10

Before I get to my milestone 10th "Lucky Sevens" puzzle, I wanted to repeat some news that you may not know about (since it only appeared in my previous two "Answers" posts): I'm considering retiring the "Hint Star" system that I've been using for almost six years now, and replacing it with a different (and hopefully simpler) method. In short, this new proposed system will have solvers ask for as many hints as they want, but if they do, they'll get a "[Hint(s) Used]" tag next to their name on the solvers' list. I'll need some more feedback behind this decision before I adopt it, so be sure to tell me what you think about this proposal through redhead64@chartermi.net, itsredhead64@gmail.com, or the comment section of this post. Now while I wait for you people to reply with your thoughts, here's a reminder on how to solve this week's puzzle:

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: The name of a British game show

ROWS
i) Animator Avery who co-created Daffy Duck

ii) Pipsqueak (who's male) from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, for one

iii) Crawdad's habitat

iv) Hedy of Hollywood

v) Yellow flag thrower on a football field

vi) Gained knowledge

vii) One of over 200 works by Bach

viii) The Monster at the End of _____ Book (Sesame Street book)

ix) Kamala Harris, just before becoming VP: Abbr.

x) Medical drama where George Clooney played Dr. Doug Ross

xi) A schwa looks like an upside-down one

SEVENS

1) "You _____ Me" (John Cena's catchphrase): 2 wds.

2) Bomber jacket material

3) Repeated song section

4) Strongly regrets

5) Region with San Mateo and San Francisco: 2 wds.

6) Used RoseArt markers

7) Image applied to a 3D model's surface

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: Lucky Sevens 9

It's been thirteen days since "Lucky Sevens 9" was posted on this blog, and ten people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

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

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

PUZZLE #284: Lucky Sevens 9

PUZZLE #284

LUCKY SEVENS 9

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: An electronic device from the 2000s

ROWS
i) It's all relatives
ii) Banana _____ (yellow gastropod)
iii) Giant rock slab with limbs from Super Mario 64
iv) Obi-Wan's surname
v) Tot's enclosure, like the one that the Rugrats frequently escape from
vi) Like some seating in outdoor stadiums: 2 wds.
vii) Where an Army private goes to do their private business?
viii) Actors McDiarmid and McKellen
ix) Business conference: Abbr.
x) lowercase poet cummings
xi) Letter on Clark Kent's chest

SEVENS
1) California's largest newspaper: 2 wds.
2) Perform an appendectomy, perhaps
3) Using a woodworking tool to smooth surfaces
4) Residents of Mombasa
5) Type of "cushion" that produces a farting noise: Var.
6) The _____ Party Massacre ('80s slasher film set at a sleepover)
7) Bulky crime lord from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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: Lucky Sevens 8

Almost two weeks have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 8" was posted on this blog, and once again, nine people have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #245: Lucky Sevens 8

PUZZLE #245

LUCKY SEVENS 8

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS
i) Laila with a 24-0 boxing record
ii) Euphonium's larger cousin
iii) Peanuts character who believes in the Great Pumpkin
iv) What you shouldn't burn at both ends
v) Jellyfishes named after a Gorgon
vi) An _____ and a Gentleman
vii) Making sounds like a giant toy hammer
viii) Classic TV hosts Linkletter and Fleming
ix) The Golden Girls actress McClanahan
x) CD that's too short to be a proper album
xi) Initial ___ (anime about street racing)

SEVENS
1) Multiplied by itself
2) Provide something great: 2 wds.
3) Help settle disputes
4) NHL team based in Vancouver
5) Buckingham who sang "Holiday Road" for National Lampoon's Vacation
6) _____ Bells (Mike Oldfield album)
7) Assumed names

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: Lucky Sevens 7

Row viii) Lincoln's gloomy goth sister from The Loud House = LUCY (the one on the right, obviously)

It's been thirteen days since "Lucky Sevens 7" was posted on this blog, and nine people have successfully solved it since then, as you can see below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Dan Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #218: Lucky Sevens 7

PUZZLE #218

LUCKY SEVENS 7

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS
i) Bath in Bath, England, say
ii) Frau's spouse
iii) American Gothic artist Wood
iv) _____ Crack (popular app with user-submitted questions)
v) Enzo Ferrari or Enrico Fermi, e.g.
vi) Election Day slates
vii) Wunderkind
viii) Lincoln's gloomy goth sister from The Loud House
ix) Taxing org., in more ways than one
x) Postal abbr. of Halifax's province
xi) Total Divas network

SEVENS
1) Amino acid whose name anagrams to "ON PERIL"
2) _____ Gate (acclaimed 1998 computer RPG by BioWare)
3) Type that this clue is in
4) The Hunger Games book series, for one
5) 2013 Sandra Bullock film that won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects
6) Injuries suffered by overconfident weightlifters
7) Michigan State athlete

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 version you can print out!