The Equipment Locker

by Dan Katz
Answer: FEATHER BOA

The answer to the drop quote is a series of names of professional wrestlers. Spaces within names are one checkerboard square, and spaces between names are multiple black squares.

Each of the numbered pictures is an object that is carried, worn, or used by one of the wrestlers. That wrestler's name has one letter that falls into the appropriately numbered column. Reading these letters in wrestler order yields the phrase TWO-WORD VENTURA NECKWEAR. In a pro wrestling context, this refers to Jesse Ventura, who was famous for wearing a FEATHER BOA, the answer to the puzzle.

• RICK MARTEL - 9 (Arrogance spray) - T
• AL SNOW - 21 (mannequin head) - W
• BIG BOSS MAN - 7 (nightstick) - O
• HENRY GODWINN - 3 (pig slop bucket) - W
• MICK FOLEY - 17 (Mr. Socko) - O
• REY MYSTERIO - 2 (Rey Mysterio mask) - R
• DUKE DROESE - 1 (garbage can) - D
• STEVE AUSTIN - 13 (beer cans) - V
• TL HOPPER - 11 (plunger) - E
• DOINK - 19 (green clown wig) - N
• MOUNTIE - 6 (shock stick) - T
• MR FUJI - 16 (salt) - U
• JAKE ROBERTS - 8 (boa constrictor) - R
• REPO MAN - 20 (hook) - A
• FINLAY - 5 (shillelagh) - N
• GENIUS - 12 (graduation cap) - E
• JOHN CENA - 4 (padlock) - C
• HONKY TONK MAN - 15 (acoustic guitar) - K
• HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN - 14 (2x4) - W
• JERRY LAWLER - 18 (crown) - E
• RAZOR RAMON - 10 (toothpick) - A
• UNDERTAKER - 22 (funeral urn) - R