Wordy Wednesday 433: Hex Pathfinder 27

WORDY WEDNESDAY #431
CRYPTICROSTIC 14 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #432
TOUCHWORD 22 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #433
HEX PATHFINDER 27
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. 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, a 7-letter word.

1W Popular fundraising event for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in which participants play games for 24 hours (9, 2 wds.)

2SW Vicious (6)

3NE Late television personality who, in his 1990 wedding to wife Jean, phrased his vows, “The answer is. . . yes” (10, 2 wds.)

4E Instrument for Ravi Shankar (5)

5W Wild ass of Asia (6)

6NE Remove slack (7)

6NE Grumman fighter aircraft with a feline name (8)

7W Burglary (5)

8SW Sixpence None the ____ (Christian rock band) (6)

9SE Marine animal resembling a dolphin (8)

10NE Historical period marked by the advent of blacksmithing (7, 2 wds.)

11E 1982 hit for Toto (11, 2 wds.)

12NE The value of one’s assets minus the value of one’s liabilities (8, 2 wds.)

13E Hunting prey stealthily, perhaps (10, 3 wds.)

14SE ____ of consciousness (6)

15SW Keep a close eye on, as someone suspicious (7)

16W Shine (7)

17NW Reptiles lithographer (6)

18NW Claims (8)

19NE Causes pain for (4)

20SE Road encircling an urban area (7)

21SW 2019 biopic about an English fantasy author (7)

22W Schedule (6)

23E It starts with Palm Sunday (8, 2 wds.)

24E More frigid (5)

25SE Government employee (12, 2 wds.)

26NE Position from which a thing is seen (12, 2 wds.)

27NE Shout from an excited roller coaster passenger (4)

28SW Deplaned (4)

29W Character who could be described as ewes-less? (12, 2 wds., hyph.)

30E Long-snouted beetles (7)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 15-letter, 2-word answer for "Senator famously found to be between 1/1024 and 1/64 Native American"?
* What's a 5-letter word for "Fruit Stripe mascot Yipes, for one"?

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