Wordy Wednesday 224: Pathfinder 8

WORDY WEDNESDAY #221
LETTER LENDING LIBRARY (answer)
Here is 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:
Anthony Bailey **
Jack Bross **
M. Sean Molley **
Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
John Bulten **
Michael Avanessian **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #222
LETTER LENDING LIBRARY 2 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #223
LETTER LENDING LIBRARY 3 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #224
PATHFINDER 8
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.
1 Giant computer used commercially to do many things at once (9)
2 Water artificially (8)
3 Furrowed tubular pasta (8)
4 Passionate (6)
5 Surrender (4)
5 Ukrainian peninsula (6)
6 1998 Nintendo accessory that lets you take photographs in four – count ‘em, four! – colors (4 3 6)
7 “____ to the Music” (Doobie Brothers song) (6)
8 Its first episode is titled “Death Has a Shadow” (6 3)
9 Item that may be horseshoe-shaped (6)
10 Awestruck (6)
11 Follows instructions (5)
12 The use of a Christ figure in literature, for example (9)
13 Frank who invented a machine for resurfacing ice (7)
14 Stuff in a dryer filter (4)
15 Much-hated import car also known as the Zastava Koral (4)
16 Last name of a cartoon character voiced by Jim Backus (5)
17 Tryptophan is this type of acid (5)
18 Dominance (9)
19 Nation whose flag has 22 copies of the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” (4)
20 Al Hirschfeld’s daughter whose name he often hid in his art (4)
21 ____ pack (weapon in Ghostbusters) (6)
22 Netgear item (6)
23 “The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum” (6)
23 Far from prodigal (6)
24 Organ to which the Fallopian tubes connect (6)
25 Type of hat or sled (8)
26 Mind-____ (8)
27 Specialized vocabulary for a particular field (5)

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