Crossword Clue Game

  1. Aptly named boy band singer
  2. Half a Black and Tan
  3. Walking instrument?
  4. Noted designer Saul
  5. Some like to slap it

And the winner is [drum roll]:

Thanks. Let’s go for a proper noun:

WASHINGTON

  1. Laundry heavyweight?
  2. Premier President
  3. He’s no liar
  4. Busted in South Dakota?
  1. State of America?
  2. Mariner’s home?
  3. Western hemlock state
  1. Young bane of cherry trees
  2. Fallout 3 location
  3. Where Heart’s home is
  1. Where a good Major lives
  2. It’s inside I-495
  3. He “slept here”
  4. He gave his dentist splinters
  1. State or District
  2. Head of the quarter.
  3. Where Olympia is seated.

There was a lot more variety and creativity on this one that I was expecting. Good work, all! But I’ll go for

That’s a cute one. I like it. (“Laundry heavyweight?” would also be a good one for a themed puzzle with pun answers like, say “Dye hair?” COLORADO, etc. Sorry, thinking out loud here.)

So, for both of those, I hand the torch to you.

Thanks, that one was fun. Next up SCREEN.

  1. Mosquito shield
  2. Filter the nuts
  3. Not-so-funny submarine door
  1. Theatre silver
  2. Faraday or fly
  3. Kind of shot
  1. Your alter-ego name here
  2. Starlet’s test
  3. Part of SAG
  4. CRT or flat
  1. It can turn blue in a crash
  2. You’re looking at it

The envelope please… And the winner is:

Thanks. In honor of Philip, the next word is:

PRINCE

  1. Raspberry beret proponent
  2. Robin Hood’s nemesis
  3. Fresh heir?
  1. 1881 Pauper counterpart
  2. Snape’s half-blooded title
  3. Start of a 1987 John Carpenter film
  1. He’s Charming
  2. Bel Air royalty?
  3. Minnesota royal rocker?
  1. What a certain artist was formerly known as.
  2. Do me this favor, and you are one.
  3. Son of a king.
  4. Two were famously “in the tower.”