ANSWERS: Quadruple Cross 7

I hope this doesn't become a pattern, because this is the second time in three weeks that I forgot to schedule the answers post in its usual time. Ah, well, at least "Quadruple Cross 7" got the most solvers I've had in a long while, with an astounding twenty in total:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #603: Quadruple Cross 7

PUZZLE #603

QUADRUPLE CROSS 7

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a video game for the original PlayStation

CLUES

1) Charlie Chaplin losing a Charlie Chaplin-lookalike contest, for example

    Magnifier attached to a sniper rifle

2) "Kick it up a _____" (catchphrase of Emeril Lagasse)

    Plucked piece of a peony

3) Car rental company surprisingly not based in Texas, despite its name

    Irritate, like a too-tight spandex suit

4) Big, Big Hero 6, or Big Trouble in Little China, e.g.

    Crow cousin

5) Bespectacled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character and others with the same name (anagram of RAMIS)

    Naiad or dryad, for one

6) _____ con carne

    Stage actor's line spoken directly to the audience

7) Barrier that may be topped with barbed wire

    Dame Judy who played M in eight James Bond films

8) Group of at least three musical notes

    Really tall mushroom with a really tiny cap

9) _____ Food (Ben & Jerry's flavor named after a jam band)

    Gooey gunk that the panelists on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out often get covered with

10) Genius group whose name comes from the Latin word for "table"

      Tablecloth material

11) Westernmost capital city in America's 48 contiguous states (HINT: It's in Oregon)

      Yo-Yo Ma's stringed instrument

12) Small stall in a mall

      ✅, 🚫, or 🤷

13) Act as a sheep's barber, so to speak

      Like the best possible possibility

14) Excuse such as "I was at the arcade at the time"

      Huge computer built in the mid-1940s

15) _____ certificate (paper for a new baby)

      Singer of "Yellow Flicker Beat", "Green Light", and "Royals"

16) Head held by Hamlet (or what's left of that head, at least)

      Hitchhiker's digit

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: Quadruple Cross 6

It's been almost two weeks since "Quadruple Cross 6" got posted on this blog, and an impressive twenty-two people have solved it since then:

• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Grant Fikes
• Marie desJardins
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Chris Kochmanski
• Derek Allen
• Sam Levitin
• Stasi Gustafson
• Okieboy2008
• Wendy Walker
• CP80
• Patrick Jordan
• Tamara Brenner
• Craig Leach
• Mom
• Pavel Curtis
• Lynn Sweeney
• SquishmallowsUnited
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #534: Quadruple Cross 6

PUZZLE #534

QUADRUPLE CROSS 6

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!

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an Oscar-winning film from the 1960s

CLUES

1) Inner turmoil for a teenager

    Winter Olympian on a sled

2) Cinnamon roll's scent, say

    Wood-burning appliance of old

3) Bespectacled cartoon character who first says "Jinkies!" in The New Scooby-Doo Movies

    Where's _____? In Hollywood (1993 picture book)

4) Corn, or a color named after corn

    Mammal whose full name is from the Greek for "nose-horned"

5) Bank of America's virtual assistant whose name is hiding inside "BANK OF AMERICA"

    Spanish island known for its nightlife

6) Avant-garde rocker Frank who once wrote a song about yellow snow

    Flavor of syrup that Canada has an emergency reserve of

7) Temporarily stop a Netflix video, perhaps

    Tic-Tac-_____ (game show where Thom McKee won 43 matches in a row in 1980)

8) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, for one

    "Lucky" digit on a slot machine

9) Bright-eyed and _____-tailed

    Social system of ancient India

10) Bloodsucking parasite, literally or figuratively

      Laughing carnivore

11) Blinky, Pinky, Inky, or Clyde from Pac-Man, e.g.

      Smile 2 actress Scott

12) Dungeons & Dragons monster that can imitate treasure chests (or a synonym for "imitate")

      Hunter Fudd from the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Fire

13) Male singing voice higher than baritone

      Wing newly added to a building

14) Banish to parts unknown

      East Asian country where fireworks were invented

15) Group of employees

      Terrier's tether

16) Greek muse of poetry (anagram of OATER)

      "_____ Your Groove Thing" (disco song by Peaches & Herb)

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: Quadruple Cross 5

It's been nearly two weeks since "Quadruple Cross 5" was posted on this blog, so it's now time for me to reveal the list of all eighteen people who has solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #441: Quadruple Cross 5

PUZZLE #441

QUADRUPLE CROSS 5

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a game show

CLUES

1) Female name that anagrams to the male names "Jason" and "Jonas"

    New age musician whose album Live at the Acropolis went four times platinum

2) G-sharp equivalent: Hyph.

    Nabisco's wafer brand introduced in 1898

3) Biggest size of a Dairy Queen Blizzard

    Dr. Seuss character who's against chopping down the Truffula Trees

4) Lizard whose sticky toes allow it to climb glass

    Spreadsheet program in Microsoft Office

5) Foaming at the mouth, literally or otherwise

    Obese alien parodied as "Pizza the Hutt" in Spaceballs

6) American state that borders British Columbia

    _____ of Two Cities: 2 wds.

7) Raise an anchor

    Synonym for "adage" that also starts with "A"

8) Fill up a bear at Build-A-Bear Workshop, perhaps

    Steer clear of

9) Meaty part of a BLT

    Scar, to Simba, in The Lion King

10) Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host Robin

      Like a faulty faucet

11) Ball and _____

      Nebraskan birth city of Warren Buffett

12) Enter computer data

      Swimming pool's "height"

13) How often Santa checks his list

      With "The", satirical news site with headlines like "World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice"

14) "Can't Get You Out of My Head" singer Minogue

      Orchestra's second-largest string instrument (after the double bass)

15) Chaos and destruction

      Had a crush on

16) Theodore Roosevelt's wife, or Woodrow Wilson's wife

      "To _____ own self be true" (line from Hamlet)

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: Quadruple Cross 4

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Quadruple Cross 4" was posted on this blog, and fourteen people since then have correctly figured it out, all of whom are listed below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #393: Quadruple Cross 4

PUZZLE #393

QUADRUPLE CROSS 4

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a well-known logic puzzle

CLUES
1) Junked metal in a junkyard

    Pink and round Nintendo character who explores a "Forgotten Land" in a 2022 video game

2) Bundle of axons in the spinal cord

    Protective garment worn by Dexter's mom from Dexter's Laboratory

3) "Got any bright _____?"

    Shaq's surname

4) First letter of the Hebrew alphabet

    Talk show interviewee

5) Planet celebrated on April 22nd

    Talking Heads singer David

6) Slangy term for those second in command

    "_____ from Shaft" (Oscar-winning song by Isaac Hayes)

7) 3.28084 feet, roughly

    Talking dog who first appeared in the fourth episode of The Jetsons

8) Short Circuit actor Guttenberg

    Straight up, like a steel bar

9) Kathmandu's country

    Uninspired (HINT: It rhymes with one of the words in "REM")

10) '90s way of saying "Fooled you!"

      Poem set in a pastoral place

11) Friars Club event

      Spitting animal from the Andes

12) McGwire and McGrath

      Vice _____ (the other way around)

13) Chef Brown from Iron Chef America and Worst Cooks in America

      Not before

14) It's used to make sidewalk art

      Shake an Etch A Sketch, say

15) Got to one's feet

      South Korean city considered the birthplace of K-pop

16) Prefix for "violet" or "violent"

      Smooth gown fabric

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: Quadruple Cross 3

Before I reveal the answers to "Quadruple Cross 3" from two weeks ago, I just wanted to let you guys know that this very puzzle was featured on a podcast not too long ago! You see, there's a podcast called "Fill Me In" that talks about crosswords (and whatever else that comes to the hosts' minds), and on episode #297 from May 25th, they gave a shoutout to my site and this specific puzzle format! If you want to hear it for yourself, you can listen to that specific episode over here (one of the main topics from it is the crossword history of a 3-letter word usually clued as "Donkey", so obviously there's a Mild Language Warning for those who care about that sort of thing) and if you want to fast-forward to the relevant part, it's around the 1 hour & 13 minute mark. So a big thanks to Brian and Ryan (the hosts of the show) for talking about it, and another thanks to Peter Abide, who let me know about it! Now with that bit of news out of the way, here are the nineteen people who have successfully solved this puzzle:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Dave C
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Karen Spencer
• Sam Levitin
• Stephen Potter
• Izak Bulten
• Seth Christenfeld
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Al Sisti
• Lynn Sweeney
• Lila Goldenberg
• Peter Abide

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

PUZZLE #336: Quadruple Cross 3

PUZZLE #336

QUADRUPLE CROSS 3

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a cartoon character

CLUES
1) Fuzzy creature from Gremlins voiced by Howie Mandel

    Greenish-brown eye color

2) Ash Wednesday poet T. S.

    Genre for Sailor Moon Crystal

3) Emmitt, the furry aquatic mammal who went missing in Zootopia, for one

    Hailing from Holland

4) Grind teeth

    Use putty rubber, perhaps

5) Frappuccino flavor

    Prickly plants found in the "Skelos Badlands" level of Spyro 2

6) Peach _____ (ice cream dessert)

    Squiggly line meaning "approximately," when placed in front of a number

7) Believer in a "hands-off" God

    Mildly castigate

8) Japanese game similar to chess played on a 9x9 board

    Portly, like a certain potent potable?

9) Owned, biblically speaking

    Tennis star Rafael who appeared in a commercial for Mario Tennis Aces

10) Led Zeppelin II, e.g.

      Storybook series about an elephant king

11) Blue screen of _____ (nickname for what happens when a Windows PC crashes)

      Taste that isn't sweet, sour, salty or bitter

12) Gleeful merriment

      Like a young female with extremely stereotypical feminine traits

13) Archrival

      Control a Cadillac, say

14) Missile shot by Katniss Everdeen

      The only gift from the Magi that's five letters long

15) Foe of Spider-Man who dresses up like a horned herbivore

      Ponder

16) _____ Rae (Oscar-winning role for Sally Field)

      Sung line

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: Quadruple Cross 2

It's been thirteen days since "Quadruple Cross 2" was posted on this blog, and eleven people have correctly solved it since then, as you can see in the following list:

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

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

PUZZLE #268: Quadruple Cross 2

PUZZLE #268

QUADRUPLE CROSS 2

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an actor

CLUES
1) Petunia Pig's boyfriend from Looney Tunes
    Singer-songwriter Jones whose album Come Away With Me reached Diamond status
2) "Full speed _____!"
    "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" singer
3) After Effects software developer
    Mean creature under a bridge crossed by the Three Billy Goats Gruff
4) 1974 film about a scruffy mixed-breed dog
    The most popular salad dressing flavor
5) Atmospheric layer whose depletion has slowed or even stopped completely
    K-On! anime studio named after a Japanese city
6) Café con _____ (coffee with milk)
    Original manufacturer of Sweethearts candies
7) Bike downhill without pedals
    Peruvian mammal that Kuzco turns into in The Emperor's New Groove
8) Selected
    Showing no visible emotion
9) It takes two to do this dance, so they say
    Singers Basil and Braxton
10) As a result
      Muppet with blue fur and a hooked nose
11) _____ the Greek (Oscar-winning film from 1964)
      Wet spongy ground
12) Former Israeli P.M. Ehud (HINT: Remove a consonant from Mr. Obama's first name)
      Opening tennis shot
13) 80s car salesman Joe who once claimed that "it has more seats than the Astrodome!"
      Stir from slumber
14) City where Martin Luther King, Jr. began his march
      Us Weekly cover subject, often
15) Much less assertive: Var.
      Perhaps
16) Scooby-Doo character who often says "Jinkies!"
      Underneath

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: Quadruple Cross

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

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #243: Quadruple Cross

PUZZLE #243

QUADRUPLE CROSS

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a one-hit wonder.

CLUES
1) "The Destroyer", in Hinduism
    Doorbell sound
2) Back-and-forth tennis exchange
    Bravery in battle
3) Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-_____ (1996 computer game): Hyph.
    No longer sleeping
4) Month with the spring equinox
    Last name of the robot Tom from Mystery Science Theater 3000
5) Part of "ESP"
    Rock genre for Prong and Pantera
6) Carter who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s
    Where to hit a bucket of golf balls
7) First-person GameCube game where you're a spirit that can possess humans and inanimate objects
    Urban of country fame
8) Circus clown's walking stick
    "Presto!"
9) Hawaiian word for "hello" or "goodbye"
    "The One _____" (R.E.M. song): 2 wds.
10) Foe of Spider-Man covered in black alien goo
      Thanks, in Düsseldorf
11) Letter after psi
      Silent film actress Bara (Anagram of DEATH)
12) Pre-chrysalis stage
      Avant-_____
13) Explorer Polo immortalized in a swimming pool game
      Anime genre often involving multiple women lusting after one guy
14) Cyberpunk 2077 star Reeves
      1990s sports sitcom starring Craig T. Nelson
15) Jurassic World actor Pratt
      Took a risk
16) Specks of land in the ocean
      He's paid to park cars

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!