Falling  into  Place1.  The  puzzle  is  presented  as  a  game  of  Tetris  with  the  following  changes:-­  each  block  in  a  tetris  piece  contains  either  a  letter  or  a  black  square-­  in  addition  to  the  standard  game  controls,  the  letters  within  the  tetris  piece  can  be  rotatedwithout  changing  the  piece’s  orientation-­  a  crossword-­style  clue  and  a  graphical  representation  of  an  answer  word  are  shown.  the  lengthand  horizontal  orientation  of  the  word  is  displayed.  occasionally,  one  or  more  of  the  letter  spaceswill  be  highlighted.

Correctly  spelling  the  current  answer  word  within  the  tetris  board,  bounded  by  either  emptyspace,  the  board  walls,  or  black  squares,  will  advance  to  the  next  clue.  Simultaneously,  avertical  entry  with  its  clue  is  revealed,  but  the  answer  is  not  given.  Completing  all  the  horizontalanswer  words  will  end  the  game.

The  horizontal  answer  words  are  given  alphabetically  by  clue.  Dying  will  revert  backwards  onehorizontal  answer  word.  Completing  a  tetris  will  reveal  the  next  letter  in  the  graphicalrepresentation  of  the  answer  word  to  be  spelled,  starting  at  the  beginning.

After  the  game  ends,  the  solver  must  realize  the  answer  words  can  be  used  to  rebuild  acrossword.  The  answer  words  and  their  clues  are  shown  below  in  final  output  order,  with  newestat  the  top.

Word that follows school or prison

Youngest of the adopted daughters in "Despicable Me"

A G N E S

UNIX directory for system-‐wide config files

Whence "Begin, be bold and venture to be wise"

H O R A C E

Union's graded system for salaries, perhaps

Type of off-‐hand item in Diablo III

O R B

"___ the season..."

Two, in Tijuana

D O S

Something to bid upon parting

TV lawyer Stone

E L I

San ___, game featuring tobacco and coffee

Top worn in warm weather

T E E

Redeemed, as chips

The Who's "Love, Reign ___ Me"

O E R

Publisher of "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases"

Student of Socrates

P L A T O

Prefix meaning "blood"

Spelling event

B E E

Pre-‐1868 Tokyo

Skewered meat dish with turmeric and peanut sauce

S A T A Y

Phaeophyceae member found in underwater forests

___ Row (winner of the '35 Spring Handicap)

T O P

Online financial company owned by Popular, Inc.

"Relax, take a ___!"

C H I L L P I L L

Olympic gold medalist Kelley of women's soccer

Regular on "The Simpsons" often clad in a leisure suit

S T U

Network with a Times Square marquee facing the Paramount Building

Proustian hero

S W A N N

Multiplexer building block

Process undergone by wine or cheese

A G I N G

Mimicked

Old-‐time ice skater Sonja

H E N I E

Micro __, menu item at Tosci's

National Ski Hall-‐of-‐Famer Tommy

M O E

Mario Bros. item that damages all enemies on the ground when hit

Musical with the number "It Could Only Happen in the Movies"

B A N J O E Y E S

Like 45% of M.I.T. undergraduates in fall of 2012

"Maverick, move! There's a __ on your tail!": "Top Gun"

M I G

___ Lanka

Magistrate of Rome with veto power

C O N S U L

Language spoken in Kazan

Last year's sophs, briefly

J R S

It has Port and Tunnel options

It might compress audio or video

E N C O D E R

"Inception" actress Page and others

Infuse with gas or bubbles

A E R A T E

He's portrayed by Jack Webb on "Dragnet"

Infantry unit with the Optic Flare ability in Starcraft

M E D I C

From ___ Z

Hutch's partner

S T A R S K Y

Fishing line woe

Hellenic I's

I O T A S

European ___ (relatives of minks and stoats)

He played Jayne on "Firefly"

A D A M

Ernesto Guevara, familiarly

He debuted in "Porky's Duck Hunt," 1937

D A F F Y

Equivalent of 100 nanojoules

Genetic component of the Hardy-‐Weinberg principle

A L L E L E

___ Eisley, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy"

Foot, in Latin

P E S

Depend (on)

Executive branch's chief, for short

P O T U S

Dance contests requiring a pole

Exclamation of discovery

A H A

Course ___ (chemical engineering)

Enthusiastic

E A G E R

Captures the curiosity of

Ashley's rival in "Gone with the Wind"

R H E T T

Captain's announcement, for short

Animated character married to Manjula

A P U

"___ became the great embarkation point": "Casablanca"

Ambulance personnel, for short

E M T S

2013 People's Choice Awards nominee for Favorite Music Video

1970's inventions that eventually replaced cassette tapes

C D S

2.  Determining  the  vertical  answers  and  reassembling  the  crossword  using  the  highlightedsquares  as  a  guide  yields  the  result  below.  Each  of  the  standard  7  tetris  pieces  appearstwice  as  black  square  groups.  The  entries  from  tetris  must  be  placed  in  the  grid  accordingto  their  original  orientation,  i.e.  horizontally  or  vertically.  The  highlighted  letters  (top  right,middle,  and  bottom  left)  spell  PRIME  CLUE  HEADS.

3.    PRIME  CLUE  HEADS  instructs  the  solver  to  look  at  the  clues  with  prime  numbers  andread  the  first  letters.  The  numbers  to  the  clues  can  be  obtained  with  standard  crosswordsquare  numbering,  which  leads  to  this  grid:

The  first  letters  of  the  clues,  when  read  in  the  standard  crossword  order  (across  clues,  thendown  clues),  spell  LETTERS  THAT  TOUCH  2  PIECES.  (This  order  is  used  in  the  list  ofclues  that  follow.)

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4.  Following  those  instructions,  find  those  letters  touching  two  tetris  pieces  in  thecrossword  grid.  The  result  is  shown  here:

Those  letters,  when  read  in  order,  spell  SKYFALL  OO  AGENT,  so  the  answer  isJAMES  BOND.