Wordy Wednesday 427: Pathfinder 24

WORDY WEDNESDAY #425
PENT WORDS 85 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #426
SECTION SIX 42 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #427
PATHFINDER 24
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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 Moisten cooking meat, say (5)

2 NH3 (7)

3 Electric organ inventor and namesake Laurens (7)

3 Sports term originating from cricket, when H. H. Stephenson took three wickets in consecutive balls and was rewarded with a cap for the feat (3 5)

4 Items for fishermen (4)

5 Horror novelist Stephen (4)

6 Qualities (10)

7 Bangkok resident (4)

7 Stuff inserted in a needle’s eye (6)

8 Northern inlet of Asia’s Yellow Sea (5 3)

9 Margarine (4)

10 Sport from which the Japanese sport of gateball is derived (7)

11 Central American bird of the trogon family (7)

12 Film director Kubrick (7)

13 World ____ (annual baseball championship) (6)

14 Song in which Lee Ann Womack asks for “a man who can tame a wild mustang” (8)

15 Lacking wordiness (5)

16 Far from careless (11)

17 Prove the falsehood of (6)

18 Attractively full-figured (6)

19 Country in the Iberian Peninsula (5)

19 Certain Arabs (6)

20 Boats that carry people across a body of water (7)

21 Ventricle's counterpart (6)

22 My Friend ____ (1941 Mary O’Hara novel about a mustang horse) (6)

23 Wombs (5)

24 Zero out a scale (4)

25 Feline with orange and black stripes (5)

26 Royalty payment for a rerun, for instance (8)

27 Swiss breakfast made of rolled oats and fruit (6)

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