ANSWERS: Sunburst 8

About two weeks have gone by since "Sunburst 8" was posted on this blog, and sixteen people have solved it since then:

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Cathy Bowen
• Marie desJardins
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Sam Levitin
• Derek Allen
• Steve Gunter
• Chris Kochmanski
• Bart Gold
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Morgan Glasberg
• Nicholas Weaver

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #615: Sunburst 8

PUZZLE #615

SUNBURST 8

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!

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of simulation video game

4-LETTER WORDS

1) "Oh, for Pete's _____!"

2) Nevada city that's home to the National Bowling Stadium

3) Countess's husband

4) Alien bounty hunter from 2026's Supergirl (or a Spanish wolf)

5) Carvey who played the Church Lady on Saturday Night Live

6) Part in a play for an actor to play

7) Pixar film series with Mater and Lightning McQueen

8) Tears, as fabric

9) "I'm so hungry, I could _____ horse!": 2 wds.

10) Shape of a St. Louis tourist attraction

11) Sit still (or not) for a photograph

12) Open-handed hit

13) Banjo-Kazooie developers (or a synonym for "uncommon")

14) _____-Cola

15) Lacoste's crocodile or the Florida Gators' gator head, for example

16) Usual roll-call response

17) Tomb raider Croft from Tomb Raider

18) Geodesic _____

5-LETTER WORDS

• British town that can precede "Downs" or "salts"

• "Buzz off, kid!"

• Clock feature that's briefly delayed by the snooze button

• Doom and _____

• Equip with more guns

• Huge, to a poet (HINT: all they did was remove "-ous" from the word's usual form)

• _____ Ipsum (Latin-sounding gibberish seen in placeholder texts)

• Light-refracting crystal

• One of 150 in an Old Testament book

• Open up, as a buttercup

• Philosopher with a razor paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the correct one"

• Radio DJ Casey who was the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo

• Royal ruler's region

• Sew up a skirt again

• Texan university with the Aggies as its mascot: 3 wds.

• Third time's the _____

• Web-linking device that used to be dial-up in the 1990s

• With "The", '80s TV show with Mr. T as B. A. Baracus: Hyph.

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: Sunburst 7

Two weeks have passed by since "Sunburst 7" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #558: Sunburst 7

PUZZLE #558

SUNBURST 7

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a 1980s science fiction movie

4-LETTER WORDS

1) Pans' partners

2) "Where _____ You Been" (Rihanna song)

3) Coccyx or clavicle, for one

4) Prune, prior to being dried out

5) "You _____?" (question from Lurch the butler on The Addams Family)

6) Roster of actors

7) Not necessarily need, but still wish to get nonetheless

8) Siberian city with a Dostoevsky museum (answer hidden in "MOMS KITCHEN")

9) Numerical factoid on a baseball card

10) Female bunny from Space Jam who hates being called "doll"

11) Chow from a chuckwagon

12) Petty squabble

13) _____ Bizkit (rap-rock band with the multi-platinum album Significant Other)

14) Pulls (at), as heartstrings

15) Current Dateline NBC presenter Lester

16) Projectile thrown at a certain circular board in the British game show Bullseye

17) Black, Bering, and Baltic, e.g.

18) It's played by those playing the board games Razzle, Tapple, and Scrabble

5-LETTER WORDS

• Enraged

• European sport like American football, but with less padding

• Frog-like enemy in Wario Land 3 (or a way to describe non-smooth oatmeal)

• Full of fearlessness (and intestines?)

• Gwen _____ (Emma Stone's role in 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man)

• Ivory's partner in a Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder duet

• Late for class

• Metal mixture such as rose gold or white bronze

• Number on a bill featuring Ulysses S. Grant's portrait

• Often opinionated article in The New Yorker

• "On Top of Old _____" (folk song parodied as "On Top of Spaghetti")

• Pleasing to the palate

• "Rambunctious" adjective for WWE Hall of Famer Roddy Piper

• Subtly hint at

• Team Fortress 2 character with a thick Russian accent and a "weighty" name

• "_____ Turvy" (musical number from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

• Word meaning "with intensity" often seen before "contested"

• Yellowish-brown color of a lion's fur

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: Sunburst 6

It's been about two weeks since "Sunburst 6" was posted on this blog, and twenty people have successfully solved it since then, as you an see in the list below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #513: Sunburst 6

PUZZLE #513

SUNBURST 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!

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a Minor League Baseball team

4-LETTER WORDS

1) Raising the Flag on Iwo _____ (famous photograph from World War II)

2) Flightless birds with three-toed feet

3) Clever remark from Groucho Marx

4) They brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh

5) Resident of Leicester or London

6) Either end of a horseshoe magnet

7) Square diagram that makes up a crossword, e.g.

8) State where Arches National Park is located

9) Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning role in Black Swan

10) Disinfectant target

11) Japanese wrestling practiced by Hinako from The King of Fighters 2000

12) Two, in Toulon, France

13) Taylor Swift: The Eras _____ (2023 concert film)

14) Near at hand, poetically speaking

15) Surname of Dorothy from the book Ozma of Oz

16) Hide a card in one's hand like a magician (or a hand's part)

17) Prompted an offstage actor

18) Extra-large or extra-small, say

5-LETTER WORDS

• Bill Withers hit once covered by Hootie & the Blowfish: 2 wds.

• Bus driver's path

• Clicking thing used to play point-and-click adventure games

• _____ couture

• Crow, Cree, or Cherokee

• Dating app that's "designed to be deleted" (supposedly)

• Feature of a Ruffles chip

• 40-40 tie in tennis (or a song from Kiss' debut album)

• In Living Color comedian and Beat Shazam host Foxx

• Irritated state

• Marahute from The Rescuers Down Under, for one (HINT: She's a bird of prey)

• Mirror _____ (reversed reflection)

• Musical based on a comic strip about a redheaded orphan

• Ooze, such as charm

• Take someone's property by force

• Turn two companies into one

• Wed without anyone else knowing

• With plenty to spare

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: Sunburst 5

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Sunburst 5" has been posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to reveal the list of everyone who has solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #451: Sunburst 5

PUZZLE #451

SUNBURST 5

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a comic book supervillain

4-LETTER WORDS

1) Business bigwig, for short

2) One of the comic relief gargoyles from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

3) Mexican food that precedes "Truck" or "Tuesday"

4) Subpoena, say

5) _____ LeSieg (Dr. Seuss' pen name for books he didn't illustrate)

6) Helicopter thingy that falls down a maple tree, for one

7) Diet Rite or Diet Coke, but not Diet Mountain Dew

8) Appendage that frequently falls off of Eeyore

9) Made a wicker basket by hand

10) Human page, perhaps?

11) Fire-producing appliance in a Blaze Pizza restaurant

12) Little woman

13) Lowest high tide

14) Ford v Ferrari actor Christian

15) Pick-a-_____ (The Price is Right game where a contestant has to pick two items with the same price)

16) One of 206 in the average adult human body

17) Female friend of François

18) Defense gp. based in Brussels

5-LETTER WORDS

• Alfred who patented dynamite in 1867

• Any book in Parnell Hall's Puzzle Lady Mysteries series, for instance

• Celebrity group on The Name's the Same or To Tell the Truth

• "Didn't We Almost Have _____" (#1 song by Whitney Houston): 2 wds.

• Digital In-Box filler

• Ford lemon from the late '50s

• From your neck of the woods

• Hypothetically perfect

• In base 8

• Itchy tag on the back of a shirt's neck area

• Man-eating monster

• Microsoft's competitor to Google Sheets

• Not dissonant or discordant

• Patio item made by the Big Green Egg

• Pirouette

• Spring month whose corresponding birthstone is the diamond

• _____ Transylvania (film series featuring Dracula and his daughter Mavis)

• Y, occasionally

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: Sunburst 4

It's been about two weeks since "Sunburst 4" was posted on this blog, and since then, fifteen people (plus one family) have successfully solved it:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #401: Sunburst 4

PUZZLE #401

SUNBURST 4

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!

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a television show that debuted in the 1980s

4-LETTER WORDS

1) Sea mammal with white ovals called "eyespots" or "eye patches"

2) College graduate, for short

3) Miami team that Dwyane Wade originally played for

4) Aloe _____ (houseplant used as a lotion ingredient)

5) Redding nicknamed "The King of Soul"

6) Shoestring with an aglet

7) Orbs in a pot pie

8) Bide one's time

9) 3,600 seconds

10) Real first name of the X-Men foe Juggernaut (or Adam & Eve's eldest son)

11) Klutz's interjection

12) Chuck-a-luck or Chinese checkers, e.g.

13) Fruit company with a sun in its logo

14) Long location to dock a ship

15) "I'm the _____ One" (top ten single for Melissa Etheridge)

16) Female friend in France

17) Borrowed bank money that usually costs more to pay back

18) The Mothman Prophecies star Richard

5-LETTER WORDS

• 1998 Disney film with characters named Cri-Kee and Mushu

• Age like bananas

• _____ as a whistle

• The Blacklist actress Boone

• Businessman Bushnell who founded both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's

• Colorado city where the Winter X Games are held

• "Er, um, ah, well, that is to say....": 2 wds.

• Great Lake with the second-shortest name

• It ran away with a dish

• Joel Coen's brother

• Like bygone days

• Oak seed that's also the name of a former British computer company

• "Ohhh, you are going down!": 2 wds.

• Onetime worshipper of the sun god Inti

• Plastic used in most dental floss

• Skin color of Peridot from Steven Universe

• That's So _____ (2000s Disney Channel sitcom)

• Tom Sawyer Abroad novelist Mark

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: Sunburst 3

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Sunburst 3" was posted on this blog, and just like last week, a total of seventeen people have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Giovanni Pagano
• Karen Spencer
• Tamara Brenner
• Mom
• Sam Levitin
• Tyler Hinman
• Kevin Orfield
• Elliott Frankfother
• Debbie Benford
• Wendy Walker
• Alex Sisti
• Lynn Sweeney
• Michael Lebowitz
• Peter Abide
• Mindy Moore

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

PUZZLE #354: Sunburst 3

PUZZLE #354

SUNBURST 3

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a Japanese anime series

4-LETTER WORDS
1) Snowman who sings "In Summer" in Frozen

2) North Carolina's state tree

3) Body parts "read" by deaf people

4) Clever quipsters

5) Facial feature that Patrick Star lacks

6) Strongbox

7) "Let You Love Me" singer Ora

8) "March" creature in Wonderland

9) Make do, somehow

10) "Do not go gentle _____ that good night"

11) Roam about aimlessly

12) Carnac the Magnificent, for one

13) Chunk taken out of the Apple logo

14) _____ Bridges (1996-2001 CBS series)

15) Woolly mothers

16) Bad thing to put before the horse

17) The "D" in "Nintendo DS"

18) Glide in a wingsuit, say

5-LETTER WORDS

• "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" rock band

• As plain as day

• Awkward, clumsy, or bungling

• Character's quirk

• Emulate Muhammad Ali's butterfly

• Extremely preachy pamphlet

• "He _____ changed one bit"

• Inception

• Last name of Oliver from Oliver!

• Like any person legally allowed to see an NC-17 film

• M. Night Shyamalan movie about a man with 24 separate personalities

• NES button that starts over a game

• _____ of Fools (celebration that Quasimodo visits)

• Region in Asia nicknamed the "Roof of the World"

• Sour's counterpart

• Type of "beef" offered by Arby's

• Untagged in tag: 2 wds.

• Walt Disney World park featuring "The Seas with Nemo & Friends"

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: Sunburst 2

My 300th puzzle is coming up tomorrow! But before we get around to that, I should probably reveal the eleven people who solved my second "Sunburst" puzzle that was published about two weeks ago:

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

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

PUZZLE #298: Sunburst 2

PUZZLE #298

SUNBURST 2

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a Golden Raspberry Award-"winning" movie

4-LETTER WORDS
1) Not false

2) _____ fide (the real deal)

3) Three of clubs, e.g.

4) Time Transfixed painter Magritte

5) Vegetable that can be popped

6) Irritating insect with a silent letter

7) Win third place at the Belmont Stakes

8) Blueberry and banana cream, for two

9) Manufacturer of unsuccessful Road Runner traps

10) Type of helmet worn by a safari guide

11) Highest digit in a normal sudoku grid

12) Dry as a dusty desert

13) Cheshire Cat's facial expression

14) Greeting to a matey

15) Six years, for a senator

16) St. John's _____ (flowering plant)

17) The Ninja Turtles only have two of these on each foot

18) Shanghai Noon star Jackie

5-LETTER WORDS

* Beatles member who wrote and sang "Octopus's Garden"

* "_____ Be Square" (Huey Lewis and the News song): 2 wds.

* Bit part for a big star

* Company that created Mr. Microphone

* Hot tortilla chip covered with cheese

* In _____ (1993 Nirvana album)

* "In what way?": 2 wds.

* Late film composer Morricone

* Letter after "Sierra" in the NATO phonetic alphabet

* Month before Febrero

* "One lump _____?": Between 1 and 3 wds.

* Parisian subway

* Planet ruled by Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

* Prefix meaning "bone"

* Purple chameleon from Sonic Heroes (Anagram of POISE)

* Slytherin student who called Hermione Granger a "filthy mudblood"

* The invention of this is often credited to Guglielmo Marconi

* Website originally named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"

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: Sunburst

It's been thirteen days since my first "Sunburst" puzzle was posted on this blog, and eleven people have correctly solved it since then, all of whom you can view in this list:

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

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

JA-NEW-ARY! PUZZLE #265: Sunburst

JA-NEW-ARY!

PUZZLE #265

SUNBURST

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: A video game from the late 2000s

4-LETTER WORDS
1) Prefix for "present" and "potent"
2) Layer of paint
3) Stab like a bull
4) Air Jordan company
5) He lost to Clinton in the 1996 presidential election
6) Landlocked Asian country whose capital is Vientiane
7) Hey _____ (1989-91 Nickelodeon sitcom set at a guest ranch)
8) October birthstone
9) All finished
10) Brightly colored fishing hook attachment
11) King Kong and Donkey Kong, for two
12) Francis was a talking one in a series of 1950s movies
13) Color gradiations
14) Ancient Roman wrap
15) Dungeons & Dragons spellcaster
16) What the "T" video game rating stands for
17) Fashion designer Wang who started out as a figure skater
18) Lisa Loeb song parenthetically known as "(I Missed You)"

5-LETTER WORDS
* _____ the Dragon (Bruce Lee film)
* A tape measure is a kind of one
* Comic book line artist
* Dancer wielding glowsticks, maybe
* Fictional moon that's home to the Ewoks
* Gary Oldman or Gary Cooper, for example
* Goat's milk sac
* Gray alien from American Dad
* King Julien from the Madagascar movies, for one
* Mythical goat-legged creature seen in the "Fracture Hills" level of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
* Name (or breed) of a white bear playable in Crash Team Racing
* Not as young
* Pickle portion
* PlayStation player, perhaps
* R&B artist who sang "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad"
* Type of eclipse that was visible across the entire contiguous United States in August 2017
* Ursa _____ (The Little Dipper)
* Wally from Hanna-Barbera cartoons, e.g. (HINT: He's not a crocodile)

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!