ANSWERS: Masquerade Party 3

It's been nearly two weeks since "Masquerade Party 3" was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #487: Masquerade Party 3

PUZZLE #487

MASQUERADE PARTY 3

Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with its corresponding word to form a longer word.

Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a movie that has been nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar

WORDS

• Brand of adorably small mandarin oranges

• Credit for a crossword constructor or newswriter

• Game Boy _____ SP (Nintendo handheld released in 2003)

• Going "Nyah-nyah-nyah!" to

• Grapefruit-flavored soda with the same owners as Dr. Pepper

• Made larger or smaller in Photoshop, say

• "_____ of Truth" (hit Depeche Mode single)

• Start a new paragraph

• Stiff and sensitive hair jutting out of Top Cat's face

DISGUISES

♫) Play a ukulele idly

♁) Girl from Glasgow

⋭) Recess game with kids who are "not it"

ↇ) Part of MPG or WPM

◩) Be dependent (on)

▚) Electronic keyboard heard in Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F", for short

🃡) Shazam! star Zachary

₪) _____ Aviv, Israel

➽) Taxonomic rank between "class" and "family"

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: Masquerade Party 2

It's been about two weeks since "Masquerade Party 2" was posted on this blog. Quite a few people have successfully solved it since then, and they're all listed below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #422: Masquerade Party 2

PUZZLE #422

MASQUERADE PARTY 2

Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with its corresponding word to form a longer word.

Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a literary character who has worn many disguises

WORDS

• Credit card carrier

• Forging or feigning (HINT: It also starts with "F")

• Given, like a genie's wish

• Inmate's supervised release

• Like mummies and zombies

• Skin swelling

• Throw _____ to the wind (act recklessly)

• Troop members selling Samoas and Thin Mints

• Weavers who (pretend to) make an outfit in The Emperor's New Clothes

DISGUISES

∮) Great horned owl's sound

␥) Involuntary twitch

☊) Astrological sign between Virgo and Scorpio

✾) PlayStation's second (and last) handheld console

⧯) Prog rock band whose album Fragile contains the hit song "Roundabout"

⇶) Pair of poles passed through while slalom skiing

♜) Former Dateline NBC anchor Curry

℺) Soft _____ ice cream

⧩) Proofreading symbol that's an upside-down "V"

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: Masquerade Party

It's been close to two weeks since a new format called "Masquerade Party" debuted on this blog, and sixteen people since then have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Sam Levitin
• CromsFury
• Tyler Hinman
• Mom
• Steven McKinney
• Tamara Brenner
• "Dot"
• Wendy Walker
• Peter Abide
• Lynn Sweeney
• Michael Lebowitz
• Elliott Frankfother

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

PUZZLE #381: Masquerade Party

PUZZLE #381

MASQUERADE PARTY

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!

Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with its corresponding word to form a longer word.

Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: Something that can be changed

WORDS

• Back-up vocalists, for example

• Future husband

• Moving like magma

• Old, but valuable vase, say

• Peace pact

• Send out RSVPs

• Served up gelato

• The _____ Woman (spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man)

• What Forrest Gump uses to hit ping-pong balls

DISGUISES

⧓) Anchovy's appendage

֎) Spool for a silent movie, say

⮝) Biblical boat featured in a Schoolhouse Rock episode about multiplying by two

℧) Five-letter prefix for "world", "weight", "water", and "wear"

𝄇) A heptagon has seven of these

♥) "_____ Out of Love" (Air Supply song)

⩄) Location for Batman's secret lair

◕) Statistical chart with X and Y axes

★) Singer who famously tells Nicolas Cage to "Snap out of it!" in Moonstruck

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!