Monkey
by Larry Hosken
Answer: REDDY
The images have most of the red taken out; thus teams needed to recognize images and take the "red" out of their names. E.g., upon realizing (perhaps via image search) that a picture depicts a Red Admiral butterfly, remove the "Red" to get ADMIRAL.
Teams fit the red-less terms into the criss-cross grid.
Full Word List
Admiral (Red Admiral butterfly) Alert (Star Trek) Box (video rental kiosk) Bull (energy drink) Cap (mushroom) Card (soccer) Carpet (where the stars shine... Hollywood stars, that is) Cincinnati (baseball player) Circle (John Wick criminal nightclub) Cloud (Oglala Lakota leader) Coats (soldiers) Crescent (humanitarian org.) Cross (humanitarian org.) Dawn (Movie poster w/Wolverines) Dragon (Movie poster) Dwarf (Sci-fi show) Ensign (Flag) Envelope (Gift money) Eye (Night flight) Fish (SS Redfish, real sub used in 20000 Leagues movie) Five (Star Wars; also a bay area puzzle team) Flag (US football penalty flag; not flag-shaped, strangely) Hat (distro) Head Herring (they say puzzles shouldn't have these??) Hook (neighborhood) King (Ultraman monster) Knight (Fortnite) Line (Boston transit) Mantle (Venture Bros supervillain) Neck Nose (implied Rudolph) Panda (firefox a.k.a. red panda) Penny (pennyred stamp) Planet (Mars) Robin (chain restaurant) Rose (Snow White's sister) Sea Shift (Physics) Shoes (sad dancing story) Skull (Marvel supervillain) Sox (sportsball) Sparrow (Movie poster) Spot (Jupiter planet feature) Square (Moscow plaza) Stripe (Beer) Vines (Twisty treat) Wedding (#GoT) Wing (Brand) Woman (#GoT again) Wood (Sequoia: too big to walk around; just tunnel thru)
Grid
Final Extraction
The red letters in the grid in the given order spell DRUNKEN MONKEY FOUNDER SAMRAT. His last name is REDDY, the answer to the puzzle.