Need to Take Someone Out?
by Nathan Fung and Justin Kao, with the assistance of Joseph DeVincentis and Mark Halpin
ANSWER: CARBURETOR
The answer to each clue is the nickname of a Zipcar.
Purple dinosaur | Barney |
A Cambridge Carrotmob organizer's first name | Maegan |
Role for Price opposite West and Ward | Egghead |
Kill a piece of legislation | Veto |
Escorted Griffin to 2009 Teen Choice Award | Johnston |
Diskant portrayer in Street Kings | Evans |
Hole in one | Ace |
Extraordinarily talented canine actor born "Higgins" | Benji |
Red Sox pitcher with the most saves | Papelbon |
Eva who wrote The Secret of Platform 13 | Ibbotson |
As hinted by the acrostic clues which spells the phrase PARKED HERE, all these Zipcars have parking pods near MIT. The locations of these parking pods can be found here. At the time of the hunt their locations were as shown below.
On one of the parking signs at each pod where each car is parked is a stickered letter. Taken in order of the given clues spells out the answer CARBURETOR.
Upon completing this puzzle, the following animated image is revealed on the round page: