New Zoo Revue

By Brian Tivol

The answer is PROTOZOON.

The grid is as follows:

MAKO H BEE
N BONOBO O
ZEBRA ROACH
M BRANT I
MONGOOSE ASP
N ROOSTER P
ZEDONK GNU
A U ORCA S
N SLOTH L
DOVE TEIID
E KEA O
RHINO R POGY

The word square is made up of KEA, EMU, AUK.

The answer to the alphametic is 0123456789 = OENAPIJCSK.

To put this all together, build a word square out of the broken
Scrabble tiles and places the tiles over the filled-in grid. Exactly
one letter peeks out of the holes in each tile.

---- ---- ----
---- -O-- -O--
Z--- ---- ----
#--- ---- ----

---- ---- ----
-N-- ---- -R#-
---- ---- ----
---- #-O- ----

---- ---- ----
-O-- -#T- ----
---- ---- #---
---- ---- P---

Overlay the JACKSNIPE phone pad onto this grid, and each letter will
be associated with a number from 1 through 9. Read the letters in
order to get the answer.

J A C = 6 3 7
K S N = 9 8 2 ==> P R O T O Z O O N
I P E = 5 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
O = 0