Wordy Wednesday 182: Words Without Friends 5

WORDY WEDNESDAY #179

CRYPTICROSTIC 4 (answer)

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Deusovi **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #180

PENT WORDS 36 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #181

CODEWORDS 5 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #182

WORDS WITHOUT FRIENDS 5

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You have 15 turns to build words on the grid. Start by taking the first seven letters in the DRAW COLUMN. Form an English word using four of those letters, and place it reading from left to right in the cells marked 1. On each successive turn, cross out the letters you used and transfer the unused letters (if any) to the next line in the DRAW COLUMN, and then play a new word using some of those letters, placing them in the next successively numbered spaces. Adjoining letters must always form words in crossword fashion, and all the letters will be used.

All words in my solution are valid according to http://scrabble.merriam.com. However, aside from some 2-letter words and the outlined 3-letter word, all of them should be very familiar.

Arrange the letters in the shaded cells to form the final answer, a 7-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Country music group Little ____, or the state 'God Blessed' according to one of their songs"?
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Wordy Wednesday 181: Codewords 5

WORDY WEDNESDAY #178

CODEWORDSEARCH (answer)

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Rained Mirror **
Rusty the Wolf **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephan Swoboda **
Walker Anderson **
yyw **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #179

CRYPTICROSTIC 4 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #180

PENT WORDS 36 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #181

CODEWORDS 5

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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!

In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A sequel nobody asked for!

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Wordy Wednesday 179: Crypticrostic 4 & Wordy Wednesday 180: Pent Words 36

WORDY WEDNESDAY #177

ELIZA PSEUDONYM WATCHES MOVIES (answer)

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yyw **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #178

CODEWORDSEARCH (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #179

CRYPTICROSTIC 4

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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Anthony Bailey. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!
The answer is a 9-letter word.
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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

Billy Joel song, "Sweet Stuff", about saint __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                            29 33 41 12 45 02 27
Ingests birds __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
              55 36 16 13 05 43 46 28
Joanna, a vessel is full of good humor __ __ __ __ __ __
                                       09 30 21 06 50 38
Retest erratic thoroughfare __ __ __ __ __ __
                            39 26 14 03 53 18
Scooter, for example, seized by authority __ __ __ __ __ __
                                          48 25 08 31 54 15
sin(π/2), in Bonn, is “bad sine” __ __ __ __
                                 19 24 07 34
Stranger, twangier purpose of a can, perhaps __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                             11 22 35 47 20 37 51 42
Thus, a government agent protecting the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   museum offering is sympathetic       01 40 17 49 32 10 04 23 56 44 52

DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAY!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #180

PENT WORDS 36

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 During the time that / Not invitational
2 Country singer Ricky / Created
3 Weapon on a firearm / Soviet Union space station
4 A type of bed / Unfortunate
5 Princess who sings "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" / Dark shape formed when light hits an object
6 Have an affinity for / Place to keep credit cards, often
7 Panic! at the Disco guitarist Harris / Musician Brian
8 Priscilla's former husband / Chart of multiplication results, for example
9 Famous impaler / Nearly
10 Prisoner / Aladdin prop

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* England neighbor
* Orson Scott Card title character Wiggin
* Like an online multiplayer game played on a bad Internet connection
* Sassoon of hair care
* Impressionist Claude
* Express gratitude toward
* Of high rank
* Animal on a deviantART badge and in an Ogden Nash poem
* Little hooter
* Foreign
* Pull out all the ____
* Not quite right
* Utensil for aerating a mixture
* Greek letter associated with plane angles, often
* Philatelist's item
* Argue a case in a court of law
* Very pale
* ____ 6 (lodging chain that will leave the light on for you)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!

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