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Solution to Randy and Riley Rotch

The Ministry

Answer: EVEN IN WIDTH
by Michael Korn
Art by Joe Cabrera

The answers that go with this puzzle are:

PuzzleAnswer
Harold and the Purple CrayonBACON
Tikki Tikki TemboGOLDEN BAMBOO
Just a DreamMARTIN LUTHER KING JR
The Talking TreeOAK GROVE
Go The F*** to SleepRIP VAN WINKLE

For each image, one of the feeders is the name of a street in the indicated city (ignoring the street/avenue/road/etc. suffix). This corresponds to the horizontal street along the top of the image. The number at the upper intersection can be interpreted as an address along that street; by consulting a map, one can find the name of the crossing street at that address. This corresponds to the vertical street in the image.

CityStreet addressCrossing street
Austin, TX901 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Pearl St.
Houston, TX12685 Rip Van Winkle Dr.Memorial Dr.
Jacksonville, FL8331 Golden Bamboo Dr.Garden St.
Pittsburgh, PA1146 Oak Grove St.Raymond St.
San Francisco, CA1654 Bacon St.Harvard St.

Each of these crossing streets has the same name as a street in Cambridge, MA (as hinted by the flavortext about the Ministers winding up back where they started). The next step is to use the number at the lower intersection as an address on the street in Cambridge, and find the crossing street there. These street names should fit into the provided boxes.

CityStreet addressCrossing streetHighlighted letters
Cambridge, MA156 Pearl St.Valentine St.ENI
Cambridge, MA70 Memorial Dr.Wadsworth St.DTH
Cambridge, MA118 Garden St.Winslow St.INW
Cambridge, MA87 Raymond St.Bellevue Ave.EVE
Cambridge, MA371 Harvard St.Trowbridge St.WID

These trigrams can be reordered and linked together, overlapping by one letter, to form the answer, EVEN IN WIDTH.

EVE
  ENI
    INW
      WID
        DTH
EVENINWIDTH