Wordy Wednesday 17: Double Helter Skelter

WORDY WEDNESDAY #15
PENT WORDS 3 (answer)
It's been two weeks, so time to unveil the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #16
BONZA 2 (hint)
9 people have solved last week's puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version with a grid to help you out. Send your solutions to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #17
DOUBLE HELTER SKELTER
Every answer starts at the indicated number, and then moves in the direction of the next number (but may or may not stop there). The direction of the last answer is to be determined by the solver. You must also determine which clue corresponds to which grid.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get a single word that is the final answer.

1. Donuts, mathematically / Prop for Picasso
2. Decay / “Thpeech” impediment
3. Caption on a photograph of an owl on the Internet: 2 wds. / March 14, to some: 2 wds.
4. Little ____ (Ursa Minor) / “The Wonder ____” (series starring Fred Savage)
5. Opponent of music piracy: abbr. / You might spend them in Moscow
6. Crime in which one might use accelerant / “____: Shock and Terror” (movie with a cult following where characters fend off flocks of avian attackers)
7. Certain evergreen / Drink brand owned by PepsiCo
8. Express strong disapproval of / Santa Claus feature
9. Abundant possessions / His first name is Mehmet: 2 wds.
10. Breast / Sweet German bread
11. Fey of “30 Rock” / Xbox peripheral that uses a camera to track the player's movement
12. Honeybee's quarry / You might use cream to get rid of it
13. “____ Farm” (Orwell novel) / It can be found on a table
14. Hand-to-hand fight / Ones who are not telling the truth
15. Dutch cheese / Old artifact
16. Edge / “Good to the last ____” (Maxwell House slogan)
17. Gold-medalist swimmer Mark / Resistance units
18. Emulate water going down a drain / One spinning a baton
19. Rural / Synagogue superior
20. Movie with the fictional tire brand Lightyear / Ovine utterance
21. Obsolete / ____ of return
22. It might be in PDF format: hyph. / Surrounded by
23. Buck, for example / Fairy king
24. Back of the neck / Line segments connecting the centers of circles to their circumferences
25. Don ____ (“Much Ado About Nothing” character) / George Harrison's autobiography: 3 wds.

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