This puzzle has two parts. First, answer each clue. The answer in each case will be a nine-letter word, which you can assemble from the three-letter pieces shown below. (Each piece will be used exactly once.) Then, take three letters from each word, and put them into the grid below. The numbers in each column will tell you which letters to take.

For instance, the answer to the first clue is HOPSCOTCH. The seventh, second, and fourth letters of this word should be placed into the first column, as shown below.

Solve all the words and place the letters correctly, and you’ll spell out a quote from John Lennon.

ADJ  ALS  ARY  AVE  CON  DIN  DOW  ECT  EME 
ENT  EYE  GIN  HOP  HOS  IMA  IVE  LET  MAN 
MIC  NCY  OSA  PIT  RGE  ROW  SCO  SHA  TCH 
TER  TIN  URS

Clues
a. Game whose board is usually drawn with chalk
b. Not real; dreamed up
c. Item with a popcorn button, often
d. Talk show host David
e. Something in a make-up kit
f. Surgeons’ workplaces
g. The last of them existed 65 million years ago
h. Giant land mass, like Africa
i. Crisis
j. Word that describes things

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Answer