The 32 dot puzzles in this round act as a field of data on which the metapuzzles draw for their answer extractions.
The puzzle answers for Pinky are:
MEAT AND POTATOES SACRED AND PROFANE KING AND QUEEN FISH AND GAME
Each of these four answers clue a pair of dot puzzle answers. Each pair of dot puzzle answers has a single bigram in common, as follows:
MEAT AND POTATOES FROG LEGS and CURLY FRIES FR SACRED AND PROFANE EUCHARIST and FUCK UC KING AND QUEEN PTOLEMY and VICTORIA TO FISH AND GAME SEA BASS and THE SETTLERS OF CATAN SE
These shared bigrams spell FRUCTOSE, the solution to the metapuzzle.
The puzzle answers for Blinky are:
WAR CRIME EUBACTERIA SOCIAL CLASS TRANSPORT
Each of these clues one dot answer:
WATER TORTURE ESCHERICHIA SOCCER MOMS TURBOJET
The first letters of both the Blinky answers and the clued dot answers spell WEST; the last letters of both spell EAST.
If we go "west" of the four clued dot answers on the map, we find the dot answers CUBA, IAN FLEMING, THE SETTLERS OF CATAN, and YELLOW. The first letters of these spell CITY.
"East" of the four clued dot answers on the map are YELLOW, TAHITI, FOOLS GOLD, and MANATEE. The last letters of these spell WIDE.
Therefore the metapuzzle answer is CITYWIDE.
The puzzle answers for Clyde are:
EASTERN SEABOARD SOUTHERN CUISINE NORTHEAST CONFERENCE WEST INDIES
Each of these puzzle answers contains a direction; each also clues two dot answers:
EASTERN SEABOARD: VIRGINIA, NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN CUISINE: GRITS, HUSH PUPPIES NORTHEAST CONFERENCE: BLUE DEVILS, BOBCATS WEST INDIES: CUBA, TOBAGO
Each of these eight dot puzzle answers can now have two directions associated with it: the direction in the dot puzzle that clued it, and the direction of its position on the map relative to the nearest ghost. Sort the dot answers by length and read off the pairs of directions as semaphore. (Doing so is clued by the fact that the Pac-Man silhouettes on Clyde's round page spell SEMAPHORE in semaphore.)
CUBA W / S B GRITS S / NE E TOBAGO W / N P BOBCATS NE / NW U VIRGINIA E / SE Z NEWJERSEY E / SE Z BLUEDEVILS NE / SW L HUSHPUPPIES S / NE E
This spells out BEPUZZLE, the answer to the metapuzzle.
The puzzle answers for Inky are:
SOCIOPATH PROSTITUTE PEACE TREATY LIPID
Each of these clues one dot answer, namely:
DEXTER ROXANNE AIX LA CHAPELLE WAX
The first letters of these dot answers spell DRAW, and the third letter of each of them is X. If you DRAW an X from the locations of these dot puzzles on the map, the two legs of the X will intersect at a dot puzzle whose answer is BIG WHEEL. BIG WHEEL is therefore the answer to the metapuzzle.
There are eight dot puzzles whose answers aren't directly clued by any of the ghost puzzle answers. These puzzles all have titles that clue one of the Pac-Man "fruits":
cherries Jubilee GREENLAND strawberry Shortcake FOOLSGOLD orange Clockwork YELLOW apple American Pie IANFLEMING melon Carnegie TAHITI Galaxian ship Space Invaders BIGWHEEL bell Change Ringing MANATEE key Unlocked SOCRATES
The diagonal of these eight dot answers sorted in order by fruits spells GOLF TEES, the fruit metapuzzle answer.
Each ghost is associated with one of the four outer loops of the grid; the fruits are associated with the inner loop of the grid. Thus, for each of the five meta answers there is a loop of eight points in which it can be written. There is only one way to write the metapuzzle answers in the grid so that the fruit meta answer matches the ghost meta answers in the spots where it intersects with them and all the meta answers read in the same direction (clockwise, as it happens):
FRU ITY E C C W SOTEEDI F S ZZLOGWH U E I E PEB BLE
The top and bottom rows of the grid now read FRUITY PEBBLE, which is the supermeta solution.