ANSWERS: Plus One 4

It's been about two weeks since "Plus One 4" was posted on this blog, and an impressive ten people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Michael Avanessian ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

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

PUZZLE #195: Plus One 4

PUZZLE #195

PLUS ONE 4

To start this puzzle, enter the answers to the numbered clues (the "Partial Clues") in each correspondingly numbered area, skipping the gold squares as you do so. Then, add a new letter in each gold square to create a new word, which matches up with one of the "Whole Clues" that are listed in no particular order.

Once you're done, the letters in the gold squares, reading down, spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: something edible

PARTIAL CLUES
1) Hot spring
2) Chucklehead or chunk of earth
3) Preserved, like many meats
4) Maid portrayed in Robin Hood: Men in Tights
5) One of five identical siblings
6) Explosion sound
7) _____ & AJ (pop-rock duo)

WHOLE CLUES
* With "The", 2015 film about Matt Damon stranded on a planet
* Annoying email that got its name from a Monty Python sketch
* Carson who hosted Total Request Live and The Voice
* Harry Potter and the _____ Child (Tony-winning play)
* Charmingly old-fashioned
* Witch Hazel's transport
* Cirrus, for one

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!

ANSWERS: Plus One 3

It's been roughly two weeks since I've posted "Plus One 3", and since then, seven of you have solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• M. Sean Molley ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Sam Levitin ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #144: Plus One 3

PUZZLE #144

PLUS ONE 3

To start this puzzle, enter the answers to the numbered clues (the "Partial Clues") in each correspondingly numbered area, skipping the gold squares as you do so. Then, add a new letter in each gold square to create a new word, which matches up with one of the "Whole Clues" that are listed in no particular order.

Once you're done, the letters in the gold squares, reading down, spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: a video game series

PARTIAL CLUES
1) CBS series about crazed animals based on a James Patterson novel
2) Wilma Flintstone's husband
3) "Slow and steady wins the race", for one
4) Oscar-winning actor Whitaker
5) Orange orchard
6) Story's sequence of events
7) Rock genre of Dashboard Confessional

WHOLE CLUES
* Free preview of a video game that lets you try it before you buy it
* Mr. Gump who said that "Stupid is as stupid does"
* When doubled, Mazda slogan
* Test episode for a TV series
* Spiral track on a vinyl record
* _____ Kombat
* Unleashed

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 (don't forget that that one is a CONTEST PUZZLE, and the deadline is this Sunday!). 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: Plus Two

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! While we wait for the Patriots to (most likely) win, let's have a look at the eight people who have solved "Plus Two" from two weeks ago:

• Chris Hendricks ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ***
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• YYW ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****

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

PUZZLE #110: Plus Two

PUZZLE #110

PLUS TWO

To start this evolution of "Plus One", enter the answers to the numbered clues (the "Partial Clues") in each correspondingly numbered area, skipping the gold rectangles as you do so. Then, add two new letters in each gold rectangle to create a new word, which matches up with one of the "Whole Clues" that are listed in no particular order.

Once you're done, the letters in the gold areas, reading down, spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: Something that no longer exists

PARTIAL CLUES
1) Ponce de _____
2) Last name of the women in Little Women
3) Freshly-cut, like a lawn
4) NBA team that retired Charles Barkley's #34
5) Winged healer from Overwatch
6) One of eight red collectibles in a Super Mario 64 level

WHOLE CLUES
* _____ Meltdown (PS2 game where you control a blob of liquid metal)
* Record label founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.
* NBA forward nicknamed "King James"
* Nicolas Cage, to Sofia Coppola
* Actresses Lucci and Sarandon
* Royal butterfly?

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: Plus One 2

Boy, was yesterday a busy day... but I'll tell you about that tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the answers for my second "Plus One" puzzle as well as the people that solved them:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Yossi Fendel ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• YYW ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****

Now just click on "Read more" for the answers!

PUZZLE #84: Plus One 2

PUZZLE #84

PLUS ONE 2

To start this puzzle, enter the answers to the numbered clues (the "Partial Clues") in each correspondingly numbered area, skipping the gold squares as you do so. Then, add a new letter in each gold square to create a new word, which matches up with one of the "Whole Clues" that are listed in no particular order.

One of the presents I've got for my birthday late last month was a collection of newspaper comic strips in book form; this week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of that comic strip

PARTIAL CLUES
1) Mr. Luthor who hates Superman
2) Secret of _____ (role-playing game for SNES)
3) Sound made by a bouncing Tigger
4) Nerve cell in the brain
5) Jigsaw puzzle part
6) Home for cows and owls
7) Shy ghost from the Super Mario games

WHOLE CLUES
* Upcoming Disney film featuring the voice of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
* Nicktoon Jimmy with a robotic pet dog named Goddard
* Chevy Chase's character in Community
* The Red _____ (Snoopy's foe)
* Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s sport
* Start a computer (up)
* Move a muscle?

Once you believe you've figured out 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!

ANSWERS: Plus One

It's been almost two weeks since I've published my first "Plus One" puzzle (you can still solve it here if you wish), so now it's time for me to reveal the answers! Before I do so, however, here are all the people who have solved it withing that time frame:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• YYW ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Yossi Fendel ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****
• Adam Weaver ****
• Sam Levitin ****

Now just head below the break for the answers, along with a couple user comments!

PUZZLE #49: Plus One

PUZZLE #49

PLUS ONE

To start this puzzle, enter the answers to the numbered clues (the "Partial Clues") in each correspondingly numbered area, skipping the gold squares as you do so. Then, add a new letter in each gold square to create a new word, which matches up with one of the "Whole Clues" that are listed in no particular order.

Once you're done, the letters in the gold squares, reading down, spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter word that you probably don't want to see in your email inbox

PARTIAL CLUES
1) Invader Zim's malfunctioning robot
2) Where every rose has its thorns
3) Maine Coon or Manx, e.g.
4) Blacksmith that shoes racehorses
5) Word at a maze entrance
6) Great _____ (Scooby-Doo is one)
7) Emulate Eazy-E

WHOLE CLUES
* Steeped, as tea
* Former ABC World News anchor Sawyer
* "_____ Caster" (KISS song from Love Gun)
* Valve's digital video game platform
* Music genre of "Turn Down For What"
* Word that follows "Material" or "Magical"
* "Little" literary character from E. B. White

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!