This puzzle presents seven sets of clues to the solver, in the shape of a seven-segment display. Each segment of the display scrolls through eight different clues in a fixed order. Each of the clues solves to an answer that contains exactly one of the substrings START, ON, or OFF. By aligning the STARTs of each clue sequence, and then illuminating the display segments in sequence of the ON and OFF substrings, the solver can produce a sequence of seven digits on the display.
In the answers below, the segments of the seven-segment display are identified as (a) through (g), proceeding clockwise from the top segment, and considering the center segment (g) last. The numbers identify the order in which the clues within a segment scroll.
| 0a. | Hugo Award exclusively won by Frank Kelly Freas (twice) | Best Artist |
| 0b. | Harry Turtledove story in which Gandhi’s tactics prove ineffective | “The Last Article” |
| 0c. | Full name of the venue where Real Oviedo plays home games | Estadio Municipal Carlos Tartiere |
| 0d. | 42-story Moscow skyscraper where AstraZeneca has offices | Nordstar Tower |
| 0e. | Type of pressure that can be measured via US patent #6997877 | Post Arteriolar |
| 0f. | Television show whose spinoffs launched in 1973, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2001, and 2017 | Star Trek |
| 0g. | Catcher with only two major-league at-bats, both for the Cardinals in late 2015 | Travis Tartamella |
| 1a. | First place to be represented by a “D” mintmark in the US | Dahlonega |
| 1b. | Game show on which contestants hope to avoid the “Bankrupt” wedge | Wheel of Fortune |
| 1c. | Academy Award nominee for playing Tybalt | Basil Rathbone |
| 1d. | It goes with The Angel, Islington and Pentonville Road | Euston Road |
| 1e. | The capital of Benin | Porto-Novo |
| 1f. | Flannery or Carroll, e.g. | O’Connor |
| 1g. | The southernmost US state capital that is ten letters long | Baton Rouge |
| 2a. | Show with fans that might join “Team Logan” or “Team Duncan” | Veronica Mars |
| 2b. | Source of Fred’s ribs that tip over the car in the closing segment | Brontosaurus |
| 2c. | Fashion icon portrayed on SNL by Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon | Donatella Versace |
| 2d. | Sculptor of Seated Woman on a Bench | Willem de Kooning |
| 2e. | Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, or Kentucky, e.g. | Commonwealth |
| 2f. | Prefabricated structure of corrugated steel with a semicircular cross-section | Quonset hut |
| 2g. | Australian film featuring Kenneth Branagh | Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| 3a. | Largest Japanese island | Honshu |
| 3b. | Comic strip with a character that led to an eponymous multilayered sandwich | “Blondie” |
| 3c. | Home to Drake, Butler, Marist, and Stetson | Pioneer Football League |
| 3d. | Capital of Ontario | Toronto |
| 3e. | Actor whose real-life wife played one of his ex-wives on an NBC comedy | Nick Offerman |
| 3f. | Beverly Cleary character with glow-in-the-dark shoelaces | Otis Spofford |
| 3g. | Sri Lankan-born, Canadian author who won the Booker Prize | Michael Ondaatje |
| 4a. | She portrayed both Ophelia and Olivia in Shakespearean film adaptations | Helena Bonham Carter |
| 4b. | Host city of the (fictional) Miss United States Pageant the year Rhode Island won | San Antonio |
| 4c. | Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen | The Gang of Four |
| 4d. | Whip made of several knotted cords fastened to a handle | cat-o’-nine-tails |
| 4e. | Movie featuring “The Bonnie Situation” | Pulp Fiction |
| 4f. | The open architectural space like that under a stairwell or between a set of cabinets and the ceiling | soffit |
| 4g. | He spent 7 years on The Carol Burnett Show | Lyle Waggoner |
| 5a. | Singer of the song the dinner party dance is coordinated to in Beetlejuice | Harry Belafonte |
| 5b. | Theatre of the Absurd Romanian-French playwright | Eugène Ionesco |
| 5c. | Short-lived NBC medical drama with a recurring role for Lin-Manuel Miranda | Do No Harm |
| 5d. | Movie title parodied by a 2000 Jackie Chan film | High Noon |
| 5e. | He wrote all of Coupling and much of Sherlock | Steven Moffat |
| 5f. | Bankrupt country featured in Duck Soup | Freedonia |
| 5g. | NH3 | ammonia |
| 6a. | Son of Amittai | Jonah |
| 6b. | Arabica and canephora account for most of the world’s production of this | coffee |
| 6c. | Role played by Robert De Niro, Ben Gazzara, and Rod Steiger | Al Capone |
| 6d. | Boston landmark with “salt and pepper” towers | Longfellow Bridge |
| 6e. | Subject of the film The Wizard of Lies | Bernie Madoff |
| 6f. | Character Kramer impersonates when he gets wrong numbers | Mr. Moviefone |
| 6g. | Sheppard Hot 100 Billboard song | “Geronimo” |
| 7a. | Film for which John Malkovich lost an Oscar to an American-born actor | In the Line of Fire |
| 7b. | Acton Bell, actually | Anne Brontë |
| 7c. | Artist with 12 #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits from 1984 to 2000 | Madonna |
| 7d. | The second band to have a Hot 100 hit song that began with the same 4 gibberish German words | The Offspring |
| 7e. | Actor who played the same role in a 1970 movie and the hit TV show based on it | Gary Burghoff |
| 7f. | “Flotation device” that allows Ishmael alone to survive | coffin |
| 7g. | This composer’s opera lent the music to the popular French cancan dance | Jacques Offenbach |
The digits displayed are (in order) 6, 0, 3, 2, 9, 5, 1. These digits can be substituted into the phone number underneath the display (with the first digit replacing 1, the second replacing 2, etc.) to form the actual number you want to dial: (603) 229-5500 x6151. When you call this number, you will hear the answer to this puzzle, which is MINI USB.