Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9, Episode 5: Musical Letter Chairs

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9"): click here

Episode 1 (This One's for the Dogs!): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Scintillating Sci-Fi): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 3 (Hopefully Not "Sew" Much Harder): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 4 (Why Can't We Be Friends?): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 19 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece. 

 

The total number of points scored is 3700. Thus, the current money pool for Palm Beach County Food Bank is $37.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $148.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 9, EPISODE 5:

MUSICAL LETTER CHAIRS

(click here for a PDF version)

As a pup, Kevin enjoyed this party game in which players scramble to get seated and not get eliminated.

COLUMN A
1. Sewing strand
2. Parody
3. Fourth-year college student
4. A type of skiing
5. Climb, as a mountain
6. Snickers ingredient
7. Dire
8. Apparel
9. Indicator light
10. Rotated, as a crank
11. Was home to
12. Jasper’s partner in crime in 101 Dalmatians
 

COLUMN B
• Exterminator’s target
• Distinguishing quality
• Inputs a phone number
• Passenger car in a three-box configuration
• Be in agreement
• Indian stringed instrument
• Drench
• Absolutely apparent
• Tricks of the ____
• Loud, unpleasant sound
• Emaciated
• Not over

COLUMN C
• Washington bills
• Skipjack or albacore
• Moved smoothly along a surface
• ____ monster (venomous lizard)
• Jack and Jill’s water holder
• Lyric poems
• A couple’s romantic night out
• “____ My Love (To Your New Lover)” (Adele song)
• Acidic in taste
• McDonald’s logo feature
• Elder Futhark symbol
• Mix, as ingredients

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 5's hint and Episode 6's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 633: Framelinks 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #631
ANACROSSWORD 43 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Squishmallows United **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #632
MINI CROSSWORD (hint)

As of this writing, 17 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #633
FRAMELINKS 26
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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 8-letter word.

A A A A A A   B   C C C   D D D   E E E E E E E E E   F F F   G   I I I I I   K   L L L L L L   N N N N N N   O O O O O O O   P   R R R R R   S S S  T T T T T   W   Y Y

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 11-letter, 2-word answer for "Quaker who founded the city of Philadelphia"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9, Episode 4: Why Can't We Be Friends?

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9"): click here

Episode 1 (This One's for the Dogs!): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Scintillating Sci-Fi): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 3 (Hopefully Not "Sew" Much Harder): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 2725. Thus, the current money pool for Palm Beach County Food Bank is $27.25. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $109.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 9, EPISODE 4:

WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?

(click here for a PDF version)

Kevin is a firm believer in maintaining international relations by having U.S. embassies all around the world.

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 4's hint and Episode 5's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 632: Mini Touchword

WORDY WEDNESDAY #630
PENT WORDS 126 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis *
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Squishmallows United **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #631
ANACROSSWORD 43 (hint)

As of this writing, 12 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #632
MINI TOUCHWORD
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In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, all answers read across, and every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent. (If you want more of these puzzles, the author offers the Touchword subscription service Outside the Fox Puzzles.) Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word.

1 Intimidate / Trademarked name of a nonstick coating
2 Disney Princess voiced by Paige O’Hara / Render less harsh
3 A ____ of Unfortunate Events / Lyle or Pascal of the Animal Crossing games, for example
4 Indian’s women’s garments / Empty talk: 2 wds.
5 Overly flashy / Country where the Cantabrian Mountains are located
6 Dingy diner: 2 wds.
7 Local ____ network / Asian hurricane
8 Not together / Shape of a ball
9 What slashes on a bowling score sheet represent / “I Saw Her Standing ____” (hit song for the Beatles)
10 Insinuate / Boxer Michael Spinks’s brother
11 Horse-drawn carriage / Rat out: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Framelinks!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9, Episode 3: Hopefully Not "Sew" Much Harder

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9"): click here

Episode 1 (This One's for the Dogs!): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Scintillating Sci-Fi): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 1775. Thus, the current money pool for Palm Beach County Food Bank is $17.75. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $71.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 9, EPISODE 3:

HOPEFULLY NOT “SEW” MUCH HARDER

(click here for a PDF version)

Kevin just found another childhood quilt that his grandmother made him, titled “Sema IV”. Kevin doesn’t remember there being a “Sema I”, “Sema II”, or “Sema III”, though. Is there perhaps a puzzle hidden in this quilt, too?

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 3's hint and Episode 4's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 631: Anacrossword 43

WORDY WEDNESDAY #629
LOGICROSSWORD 13 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #630
PENT WORDS 126 (hint)

As of this writing, 13 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #631
ANACROSSWORD 43
(click here for a PDF version)
(click here for rules)

This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Jeri Feaster and a word suggested by patron Russ Kale. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
• One trying to get the upper hand, literally: 2 wds.
• Fast-growing Asian plant
• A grizzly, for example: 2 wds.
• Common bagel spread: 2 wds.
• “I beg to ____!”
• Respect
• Devil’s ____ cake
• Seethe
• Bookmaker’s concern
• Italian artist/archaeologist Giambattista
• Rough drawing
• “____ & Snakes” (Jim Stafford song)
• Ocean predator with dark stripes on its body: 2 wds.
• Rough woolen fabric
• One dozen

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What do slashes on a bowling score sheet represent?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9, Episode 2: Scintillating Sci-Fi

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9"): click here

Episode 1 (This One's for the Dogs!): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 850. Thus, the current money pool for Palm Beach County Food Bank is $8.50. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $34.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzle for 25 points, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 9, EPISODE 2:

SCINTILLATING SCI-FI

(click here for a PDF version)

Kevin is trying to remember some of his favorite science fiction movies, and wouldn’t you know it, this wouldn’t be a puzzle if he didn’t need your help.

Blue-collar worker Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler discover that they’re not alone in the universe in Close ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___  of the Third Kind.

Characters race to find an Easter egg hidden in a virtual reality world called the OASIS in the 2018 movie Ready ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ One.

In a dystopian version of Los Angeles, Rick Deckard must come out of retirement to fight robots called “replicants” in the cult classic [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ Runner.

Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on the role of a time-traveling assassin sent to kill Sarah Conner in 1984’s hit movie The ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

Cloning dinosaurs to make a theme park proves to be a dangerous idea in Steven Spielberg’s ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Park.

Based on a 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet dominated by primates in 1968’s Planet of the ___ [__] ___ ___.

Trapped in 1955, Marty McFly must return to the year 1985 in a time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___.

Humanity must fight off an alien invasion on July 4 in the action-packed 1996 movie ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Day.

After Leonard Nimoy’s pointy-eared character died in the previous film, Kirk must recover his body in Star Trek III: The Search for ___ ___ ___ ___ [__].

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 2's hint and Episode 3's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 630: Pent Words 126

WORDY WEDNESDAY #628
CODEWORDS 30 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #629
LOGICROSSWORD 13 (hint)

As of this writing, 6 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #630
PENT WORDS 126
(click here for a PDF version)

In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the Across clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the Pentominoes clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Vincent who voiced the villain Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective (1986) / At a very slow tempo
2 ____ the beans / Laundry detergent’s target
3 Wyoming’s northern neighbor / Mustard ____
4 Like a cloudless morning sky / Torn-up piece of golf turf
5 Power tool for smoothing surfaces / ____ Christianity (book by C. S. Lewis)
6 Concealed / Cocker ____
7 Word-guessing game show whose hosts have included Michael Reagan, Chuck Woolery, Bill Engvall, and RuPaul / Cancel
8 Pay no attention to / ____ pressure
9 Shape of any piece from the board game Hive / Side-to-side rotation
10 Strategic maneuver / Around the ____ (ESPN series)
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Bone in the skull
• Man of ____ (2013 film starring Henry Cavill)
• Chocolate mint brand name
• “The thrill of victory and the ____ of defeat”
• Blood of the Greek gods
• Rooms in a prison
• Sleeper’s sound
• Indian monetary unit
• Lowest point
• Overwhelming fear
• Japanese dish made with fish and rice
• Precise
• Subarctic coniferous forest
• With The, 1993-1999 sitcom starring Fran Drescher
• The third most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere
• Australian wild dog
• Muscular strength
• Light-refracting shape

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What ocean predator has dark stripes on its body?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 9, Episode 1: This One's for the Dogs!

INTRODUCTION

This series is inspired by the website Kevin's Puzzles, on which Kevin Orfield posts an instructionless puzzle-hunt-style puzzle every Monday. Kevin Orfield's puzzles usually lean towards the easy side of this genre in order to target a less experienced and/or younger audience. Kevin's Puzzles at Home is my knockoff of Kevin's Puzzles, so called because of the "we have X at home" meme:

The puzzles in Kevin's Puzzles at Home are intended to be easier than my Wordy Wednesday posts, and hopefully at least 80% as entertaining as the real Kevin's Puzzles. Kevin's Puzzles at Home will be presented by my "we have X at home" version of Kevin, a prodigious and colorful wolf named Kevin Edmund Kepler:

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of any puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

 

Every Monday during January and February 2025, a new episode will be posted at 12:01 AM (Central); as with the real Kevin's Puzzles, as is the standard with other puzzle hunts, the final answer will be a word or phrase. Email me (at glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com) the correct solution to this puzzle within the next week to score 50 points. Each puzzle will also have a hint posted for it one week later; solving the puzzle while the hint is up will be worth 25 points. Episode 8, which will be posted on February 24, is a meta puzzle which requires the answers to all of the previous puzzles in order to be solved; this puzzle will be worth triple (150 points before the hint, 75 points after). The highest possible score a solver can attain will thus be 500 points, by solving each puzzle during its first week. In an effort to aid people who don't have food at home, for every point scored by my readers by 11:59 PM (Central) on March 9, I will donate 1¢ to the Palm Beach County Food Bank, up to a maximum of $150. (Thus, each solver can contribute a maximum of $5 to this pool.) Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match my donation as well, making the maximum possible donation $600 (and thus the maximum contribution to this donation by a single solver $20). To date, the Kevin's Puzzles at Home series has raised $2,907.00 for various food banks! A huge thank you to the solvers and anonymous benefactors who have made this impact possible!

Unlike the real Kevin's Puzzles, which posts each puzzle's solution one week after its hint is posted, all puzzle solutions will be posted simultaneously on March 10, one week after the final hint is posted. This will make the meta slightly harder, since you can't just look up the solutions to the previous puzzles to start solving it, but will also permit latecomers to score more points (and thus raise more money) than otherwise possible.

Astute readers will notice that the words "Season 9" appear in the title. Links to the previous seasons follow:

Season 1 (May-June 2022): Puzzles and hints, solutions.

Season 2 (September-October 2022): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 3 (January-February 2023): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 4 (May-June 2023): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 5 (September-October 2023): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 6 (January-February 2024): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 7 (May-June 2024): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 8 (September-October 2024): Puzzles and hints, solutions

 

Have fun, and remember to check out the real Kevin's creations (which go up at noon Central time every Monday) if these fake ones are up your alley!

 

Special thanks to Jason Boomer, John Bulten, and Joseph DeVincentis for testing these puzzles!

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 9, EPISODE 1:

THIS ONE’S FOR THE DOGS!

(click here for a PDF version)

Kevin volunteered at a local animal shelter and helped five dogs who don’t look like humans get united with five humans who don’t look like dogs. Adorable!

5 new dog owners (Amy, Blake, Cyndi, Daniel, and Ed) adopted 5 dogs (Ace, Bear, Comet, Dazzle, and Echo) of 5 different breeds (Affenpinscher, Bulldog, Chihuahua, Dalmatian, and Eurasier). Using the clues below, determine who adopted which dog and what breed each dog is.

1. Each new dog owner’s name, their dog’s name, and their dog’s breed all start with three different letters.

2. Neither Blake nor Daniel adopted the Chihuahua.

3. Echo is neither Blake’s nor Cyndi’s pet.

4. Blake’s dog, the Bulldog, the Dalmatian, and Ace are four different dogs.

5. Ed’s dog is named Comet, but is not a Dalmatian.

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 1's hint and Episode 2's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 629: Logicrossword 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #627
ANACROSSWORD 42 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #628
CODEWORDS 30 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #629
LOGICROSSWORD 13
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Blacken some cells in the grid and fill the rest with letters to form words. Hereafter, a “word” refers to any string of two or more consecutive letters reading from left to right or top to bottom, bounded on both sides by black cells or the edge of the grid. All words are Scrabble-legal and appear in the NASPA Word List 2023 Edition (NWL2023). A list of all acceptable 2-letter words is provided as a solving aid; all of the words which are not on this list and not mentioned in the clues should be familiar to most solvers. Use the clues, logic, and your vocabulary to find the solution.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to get the final answer, a single Scrabble-legal word. (If any of the highlighted cells are blackened, then the final answer will be less than 8 letters long.)

AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO BY DA DE DO ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EW EX FA FE GI GO HA HE HI HM HO ID IF IN IS IT JO KA KI LA LI LO MA ME MI MM MO MU MY NA NE NO NU OD OE OF OH OI OK OM ON OP OR OS OW OX OY PA PE PI PO QI RE SH SI SO TA TE TI TO UH UM UN UP US UT WE WO XI XU YA YE YO ZA
• No two black cells share an edge. All the white cells are connected through their edges. No word is repeated in the grid.
• Row 2 contains the word AWA, but does not contain more than one instance of any letter besides A.
• Row 3 contains a 9-letter word.
• Row 5 contains a B, the word FORUM (which intersects FE), and a V, in that order from left to right.
• Row 9 contains the word NU.
• The row containing the word YO is somewhere above the row containing the word UKE.
• Column A contains an 8-letter word.
• Column G does not contain more than one instance of any letter.
• One column contains exactly 3 black cells, all of which are in even-numbered rows, and has a D as its bottommost letter.
• The word KUNE intersects the word MUSICK.
• The word MEH intersects the words AGUELIKE and SHH.
• Two words of the same length intersect at their shared final letter R.
• A word beginning with L appears somewhere.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Man of ____ (2013 film starring Henry Cavill)"?
* Patron Puzzle #128, which will be delivered on January 8, 2025, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Large Sudokurostic.

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!