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King Azaz

ANSWER: FIGHTIN WORDS

Authors: Charles Steinhardt, Paul Melamud, and Brian Widerman

The puzzle answers for this round are as follows:

  • EAST OF EDEN
  • RHONE VALLEY
  • NEWSWEEK
  • FAIAL
  • BOSS HOGG
  • FIRE STICK

Each of these answers clues a different potential puzzle answer containing AZ, which can fit in the blanks with AZs in increasing position within the words.

AnswerAZ Answer
FAIALAZORES
BOSS HOGGHAZZARD
FIRE STICKAMAZON
NEWSWEEKMAGAZINE
RHONE VALLEYSHIRAZ
EAST OF EDENELIA KAZAN

The flags each have an ISO country code with two letters, or, from the Mathemagician's point of view, two numbers as written on a calculator (upside down, like the flags are presented):

CountryISO CodeNumbers
IrelandIE13
LesothoLS75
GreenlandgL67
IcelandIS15
IrelandIE13
BelgiumBE83

Taking these as indexes into the six original answers to pull out two letters from each, we get the answer, FIGHTIN WORDS.