Across Clues
Dr. Nautilus's favorite shape | SPIRAL |
Firm employee | LAWYER |
One of five in Hamlet | ACT |
Overactor | HAM |
Poem of praise | ODE |
Song of praise | PSALM |
Introduction to Vegas? | LAS |
Card in a royal flush | ACE |
Nice gnome? | NAIN |
"...like you've had too much wine, that's _____" | AMORE |
Beverage that may be iced or sweet | TEA |
Animator's output | CEL |
Dwell on (a point) | BELABOR |
Any one of three brothers who fought alongside Holliday | EARP |
Tolkien character with an accent mark in her name | EOWYN |
Dubbed | NAMED |
Ser's partner in cannon transport | HOWE |
The R in PR | RICO |
Mononymous Parks and Recreation actress | RETTA |
Blood or phlegm | HUMOR |
Authentic | ECHT |
America's largest one is in King of Prussia | MALL |
Type of cannon | ION |
Wight, for one | ISLE |
One of many in a flight | STAIR |
Concept that can be symbolized with two fingers | PEACE |
Label on a drawer that contains whatever (abbr.) | MISC |
Cheech's partner in comedy | CHONG |
Established fact | GIVEN |
Feminine suffix | ENNE |
Like Yogi or Smokey | URSINE |
Bird of prey | RAPTOR |
How German? | WIE |
Filled (with) | REPLETE |
Quite | VERY |
Even as we speak | NOW |
Like Gwen Stefani's "Escape" | SWEET |
Laconic | TERSE |
Free from (2 words) | RID OF |
Ivory's counterpart | EBONY |
Far from overdue | EARLY |
Keyword in a Java method that contains "return;" | VOID |
Compute | RECKON |
Item on a desktop | ICON |
Unladen weight | TARE |
Where you might send rambunctious kids to play | OUTSIDE |
Cute | ADORABLE |
Dr. Nautilus's Clues
Like particularly egregious fails | EPIC |
Colorado ski resort | VAIL |
More Brobdingnagian | LARGER |
Fitting | APT |
Conservationist's prefix | ECO |
"Mad" character encountered in the 2014 MIT Mystery Hunt | HATTER |
Item stuck to a fridge | MAGNET |
Not just some people | EVERYONE |
In the altogether | NUDE |
Classic adventure game protagonist Calavera | MANNY |
Corkscrew-shaped pasta | ROTINI |
What Mike, Charlie, and Victor all represent | LETTERS |
Activist played by Julia in 2000 | ERIN |
Send, as payment | REMIT |
Hoagie that might save the day? | HERO |
Christian on film | BALE |
Huffed and puffed | BLEW |
The Realm of Unspeakable _____ | CHAOS |
Serf | PEON |
Like the MIT Mystery Hunt | YEARLY |
"I do" is one | VOW |
Type of clue absent from this puzzle | DOWN |
Intellectual conclusion? | ISM |
Many a John Wayne film | OATER |
Like a native of Muscat | OMANI |
Like some chambers | ANECHOIC |
Pitched (a fit) | THREW |
Alt-rocker who sang about being "un perdedor" | BECK |
In cold storage (2 words) | ON ICE |
Home of the Senators and Maple Leafs | ONTARIO |
Arizona city mentioned in the second verse of an Eagles song | WINSLOW |
Authentic | REAL |
Org. with a style manual | MLA |
Part of velocity, along with direction | SPEED |
Nebraska's largest city | OMAHA |
The largest object in the asteroid belt | CERES |
Hex | CURSE |
Defeats utterly | ROUTS |
Concept | IDEA |
Pint-sized explorer | DORA |
Run, as dye or paint | BLEED |
Swindle sheepishly? | FLEECE |
Meal | REPAST |
Comedian Drew | CAREY |
When doubled, a city in Washington | WALLA |
Tears (into) | RIPS |
Dr. Nautilus's clues fill the grid in a spiral. (Indeed, the answer to the first Across clue indicates that her favorite shape is a spiral!) The across clues go across in each row, but there are extra letters: letters in the spiral that do not appear in any across clue. In fact, the extra letter can even be in the middle of an across clue. (For example, in the fourth row, an extra letter H, which appears in the Dr. Nautilus clue ANECHOIC, is in the middle of the across clue CEL.) All of these extra colors are darkened in the grid below. From the inside of the spiral going out, the extra letters spell the answer, CARTWHEEL.
S | P | I | R | A | L | L | A | W | Y | E | R | A | C | T |
H | A | M | O | D | E | E | P | S | A | L | M | L | A | S |
A | C | E | N | A | I | N | A | M | O | R | E | T | E | A |
C | H | E | L | B | E | L | A | B | O | R | E | A | R | P |
E | O | W | R | Y | N | N | A | M | E | D | H | O | W | E |
R | I | C | O | R | E | T | T | A | H | U | T | M | O | R |
E | C | H | T | M | A | L | L | I | O | N | I | S | L | E |
S | T | A | I | A | R | P | E | A | C | E | M | I | S | C |
C | H | O | N | G | G | I | C | V | E | N | E | N | N | E |
U | R | S | I | N | E | R | A | P | T | O | R | W | I | E |
R | E | P | L | E | T | E | V | E | R | Y | N | O | W | L |
S | W | E | E | T | T | E | R | S | E | R | I | D | O | F |
E | B | O | N | Y | E | A | R | L | Y | V | O | W | I | D |
R | E | C | K | O | N | I | C | E | O | N | T | A | R | E |
O | U | T | S | I | D | E | A | D | O | R | A | B | L | E |