Happy Thanksgiving, fellow puzzlers!

Today is a day for family and friends, for celebrating togetherness, for appreciating good fortune, health, and happiness. And we here at PuzzCulture are so so grateful for each and every reader and solver.

Whether you’re a puzzler or a gamer, a casual solver or a diehard devotee of all things puzzly, you can rest assured you are a welcome member of a very eclectic, charming, and downright likable community of puzzly people. =)

And so, in the spirit of giving thanks, I’ve cooked up a puzzle for my fellow puzzlers on this delightful Turkey Day.

I call this What’s Leftovers?

Following the instructions, cross off words in the diagram. When you are finished, the remaining words will form a message reading left to right, line by line. Some words may be eliminated by more than one of the instructions.

1. Cross off all words that name family members.
2. Cross off all NFL teams playing Thanksgiving games.
3. Cross off all words that name parts of Thanksgiving dinner.
4. Cross off all words that name types of pie.
5. Cross off all words that rhyme with FORK.
6. Cross off all words that name ways to cook turkey.
7. Cross off all words that can follow TURKEY in a common phrase.
8. Cross off all words that are synonyms for HUNGRY.
9. Cross off all two-letter words in columns A and B.
10. Cross off all words that are spelled out in the word SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (like LIDO).

[Click here for a PDF of the puzzle to print and solve.]

Have a marvelous holiday and happy solving!