Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3, Episode 5: People of Note

PREVIOUS EPISODES
Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3"): click here
Episode 1 (Name That Toon): puzzle PDF, hint PDF
* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 3 people solved it later for 25 points.
Episode 2 (Fuzzy Flock): puzzle PDF, hint PDF
* 16 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.
Episode 3 (Tricky Triplets): 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 4 (Totally A-Mazed): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!) 
* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 3450. Thus, the current money pool for the Palm Beach County Food Bank is $34.50. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $138.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points, possibly with the aid of the hints.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME
SEASON 3, EPISODE 5:
PEOPLE OF NOTE
Kevin wants to direct your attention to these people of note from around the world. Is it possible to even put a value on them?

David Unaipon ÷ Sir John A. Macdonald
Catherine Cranston + George Washington
Mary Reibey - Thomas Jefferson
Mary Somerville + Sir Wilfrid Laurier

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

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 519: Anacrossword 28 & Wordy Wednesday 520: Pent Words 104

WORDY WEDNESDAY #517
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS (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 **
Dc **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Damon French **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #518
CODEWORDS 21 (hint)
As of this writing, 7 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!

LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #519
ANACROSSWORD 28
(click here for a PDF version)
(click here for rules)
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
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 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96
__ __ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105

____ and Cleopatra (Shakespeare play)
• Place to buy a cappuccino
• Move slowly and stealthily
• Physicist Albert
• “Tusk” band: 2 wds.
• Allergic reaction triggered by pollen: 2 wds.
• Hoist
• Magazine installment
• “Rock and Roll Ain’t ____ Pollution” (AC/DC hit)
• Rule
• Place for a wedding band: 2 wds.
• Shape of a ball, in geometry
• Road relative
• What a drink of water might quench
• Have difficulty sleeping, in a way: 3 wds.
• Media franchise featuring the segment “Silly Songs with Larry”

WORDY WEDNESDAY #520
PENT WORDS 104
(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 Sanctuary / Conceal a playing card or a coin, perhaps
2 City in Ector County, Texas / Simpleton
3 Two-legged dragon / Baseball great Babe
4 Japanese or Chinese person, for example / Deadens
5 Weapon at a sleepover fight / Like some tradition
6 “____ of Love” (hit song for the Dixie Cups) / ____ wolf (extinct canine)
7 Harsh / Make amends
8 Wicked ____ (reality series about fishermen) / Keyboard user
9 Rant and ____ / Allow
10 Gaucho’s weapon / Noted film dancer Rogers
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Getting old
* Calendar page
* Cuban ballroom dance
* Bishop’s headdress
* Place to get your hair done
* Dapper
* Part of a flight of stairs
* Some precipitation
* Presses
* Swiftness
* Laurie of The Hustler (1961)
* A Night at the ____ (Queen album)
* Belly button
* Engine supercharger, briefly
* Eye-catching
* A savory jelly
* Kathmandu’s nation
* Render void, as a marriage

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* A Codewords!

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

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3, Episode 4: Totally A-Mazed

PREVIOUS EPISODES
Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3"): click here
Episode 1 (Name That Toon): puzzle PDF, hint PDF
* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 3 people solved it later for 25 points.
Episode 2 (Fuzzy Flock): puzzle PDF, hint PDF
* 16 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.
Episode 3 (Tricky Triplets): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!) 
* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 2500. Thus, the current money pool for the Palm Beach County Food Bank is $25.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $100.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points, possibly with the aid of the hints.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME
SEASON 3, EPISODE 4:
TOTALLY A-MAZED
Kevin finds it very easy to get lost in a puzzle like this one!

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

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 518: Codewords 21

WORDY WEDNESDAY #516
SECTION SIX 51 (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 **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #517
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 13 (hint)
As of this writing, 10 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 #518
CODEWORDS 21
(click here for a PDF version)
In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What media franchise features the segment “Silly Songs with Larry”?
* What's a 5-letter word for "Laurie of The Hustler (1961)"?

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

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3, Episode 3: Tricky Triplets

PREVIOUS EPISODES
Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3"): click here
Episode 1 (Name That Toon): puzzle PDF, hint PDF
* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.
Episode 2 (Fuzzy Flock): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!) 
* 16 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 1600. Thus, the current money pool for the Palm Beach County Food Bank is $16.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $64.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points, possibly with the aid of the hints.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME
SEASON 3, EPISODE 3:
TRICKY TRIPLETS
Can you help Kevin put the trios of letters in the blanks in the right order?
 
EAC ECH EUN FIL FTH HEF HOL IRS MEO MTH OIN PLA REE THE TNA TOR TST WHA WHO YED YTH

 __ __ __ __’__    __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __    __ __
         ^           ^           ^        ^           ^           ^
 __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __
      ^           ^        ^           ^           ^        ^
 __ __ __ __    __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __ __   “__ __ __
         ^           ^           ^           ^           ^
 __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __”?
      ^        ^           ^

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

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 517: Divided Into Columns 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #514
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 10 (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 **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #515
PENT WORDS 103 (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 **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #516
SECTION SIX 51 (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 #517
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 13
(click here for a PDF version)
(click here for rules)
Did away with, as a law __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                        78 52 32 70 19 87 05 49 45
French farewell __ __ __ __ __
                44 53 10 26 80
New York’s second-largest city __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                               81 13 43 34 73 60 31
Possessing nothing: hyph. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                          69 20 67 79 39 02 07 22 56 28 14
Not at all cheap __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                 42 27 47 74 71 12 21 06 48
It’s said to always be 20/20 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                             37 50 11 57 03 86 09 29 62
E.L. Fudge manufacturer __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                        65 01 41 17 55 25 84
Game in which you don’t want to be  __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   the last player standing: 2 wds. 51 63 30 46 64 08 15 85 82 77 75 33 36
It can be ingrown __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                  38 23 18 76 68 61 58
“____ Crawl” (Tracy Byrd song) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                               72 40 04 54 24 16 59 35 66 83


COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* A Codewords!

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

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3, Episode 2: Fuzzy Flock

PREVIOUS EPISODES
Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3"): click here
Episode 1 (Name That Toon): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!) 
* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 750. Thus, the current money pool for the Palm Beach County Food Bank is $7.50. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Palm Beach County Food Bank will actually receive $30.00. 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 3, EPISODE 2:
FUZZY FLOCK
(Edited at 12:17 AM on 2023-01-09 to fix a minor issue that didn't arise during testing.)
Kevin just wants to run his fingers through the fleece of these fantastic creatures!

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

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 516: Section Six 51

WORDY WEDNESDAY #513
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 12 (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 **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Tyler Hinman **
Damon French **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #514
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 10 (hint)
As of this writing, 11 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 #515
PENT WORDS 103 (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 #516
SECTION SIX 51
(click here for a PDF version)
This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.
Ring 1
1 Flat-roofed American Indian dwelling
2 Like marketing designed to spread on social media
3 ____ Girls (2004 Lindsay Lohan film)
4 Started
5 Ahead
6 Colorful term for police officers

Ring 2
* It’s measured in decibels
* ____ Croft: Tomb Raider (2001 film)
* City on Maine’s Penobscot River
* Possible quality of someone who enjoys traveling
* Speed

Ring 3
* A type of pill
* 2023 HBO Max series which is a spin-off of the Scooby-Doo franchise
* ____ republic
* Web-based game bought by the New York Times Company in 2022

Ring 4
* 1996 hit for the Spice Girls
* A shade of purple
* “Is nothing ____?”

Ring 5
* 2007-2008 sitcom, spun off from GEICO ads, about Neanderthals living in modern times
* Medal or trophy

Ring 6
* State in which Area 51 is located

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 7-letter word for "New York’s second-largest city"?
* Patron Puzzle #104, which will be delivered on January 8, 2023, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Fill-In Crossword.

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

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 3, Episode 1: Name That Toon

INTRODUCTION
This series is inspired by the website Kevin's Puzzles, on which Kevin Orfield, who is a regular reader of this blog, 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 markedly inferior 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:
(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of any puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the real Kevin, or any real Kevin, is entirely coincidental.)
Kevin Edmund Kepler, the colorful and prodigious wolf depicted above with a new simplified design that is intended to be less nightmarish for my illustrator to draw, hopes that you enjoy the puzzles that he will be offering you over the course of these coming months!
 
Every Monday during January and February 2023, a new episode will be posted at 12:01 AM (Central); as with the real Kevin's Puzzles, 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 9, which will be posted on February 27, is a meta puzzle which requires the answers to all of the previous puzzles in order to be solved; this puzzle will be worth double (100 points before the hint, 50 points after). The highest possible score a solver can attain will thus be 500 points, by solving each puzzle during its first week. For every point scored by my readers by 11:59 PM (Central) on March 12, I will donate 1¢ to the Palm Beach County Food Bank, up to a maximum of $100. (Thus, each solver can contribute a maximum of $5 to this pool.) Not all hungry people live in Texas or Colorado; this food bank is local to a tester who lives in Florida, and I wish to support it this time around. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match my donation as well, making the maximum possible donation $400 (and thus the maximum contribution to this donation by a single solver $20). Get to work!

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 13, 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 3" appear in the title. Links to the first set of puzzles from last May and June, plus all of their hints, can be found here, with their solutions here. Links to the second set of puzzles from last September and October, plus all of their hints, can be found here, with their solutions here.

Have fun, and remember to check out the real Kevin's creations if these fake ones are up your alley!

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME
SEASON 3, EPISODE 1:
NAME THAT TOON
Oh no! Kevin is drawing a blank on the names of these beloved animated characters!

He often says, “Good grief!” __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __
                                32 22                11    06
Gumball’s goldfish who grew legs __ __ __ __ __ __
                                 25 30    14 08
Angel the Bunny’s pony caretaker __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                    28       07       01 17
The father of Pebbles __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                            24 18                31    16
His debut was in Steamboat Willie __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __
                                  23 29                05 19
Inspector Gadget’s intelligent niece __ __ __ __ __
                                     04    10 21 13
Canine named after Frank Sinatra’s scatting __ __ __ __ __ __-__ __ __
                                                  12 27          03 09
Hundred Acre Woods resident with a bouncy tail __ __ __ __ __ __
                                               02 15 26 20

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

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!

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