Wordy Wednesday 471: Codewords 18 & Wordy Wednesday 472: Hex Pathfinder 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #470
PENT WORDS 94 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #471
CODEWORDS 18
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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.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #472
HEX PATHFINDER 28
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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.

1SW Fastener on a door (5)

2SE Beat (5)

2SE Old adage promoting eloquence over violent force (28, 7 wds.)

3E Uprising (6)

4SW Speedy (5)

5NW Utah senator Romney (4)

6W Inspirational leader’s quality (8)

7NW Rose feature (5)

8NW 1985 hit for Stevie Wonder (13, 2 wds., hyph.)

9SE Shinbone (5)

10SE Place to watch niche independent films (8, 2 wds.)

11E Won't You Be My ____? (2018 documentary about Mister Rogers) (8)

12E Choice morsel (6)

13E Senseless (5)

14SE Rose feature (5)

15NW Feed the kitty (4)

16SE Band that performed “Blue Monday” (8, 2 wds.)

17SW Keep possession of (6)

18NE He was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut in 1985 (10, 2 wds.)

19NW Device with which to point and click (5)

19SW “____ Tried” (Merle Haggard song) (4)

20SE Flash of lightning (11)

21SE Fill with wonder (5)

22NW Trainee (6)

23NW A sedimentary rock (5)

24NE Common Christmas decoration (6)

25SW Weft’s counterpart (4)

26NW Center (10, 2 wds.)

27NW Family Feud’s Fast Money, for one (10, 2 wds.)

28W Certain crustacean (5)

29W Bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem (5)

30W Vanessa of Coriolanus (2011) (8)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!

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Wordy Wednesday 470: Pent Words 94

WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #470
PENT WORDS 94
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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 Mix recipe ingredients, perhaps / Marvel Comics character who can freeze things

2 Hooded snakes / Dwindle

3 ____ Pursuit (board game) / “____ But True” (Metallica song)

4 Warm / Brandenburg Concertos composer

5 ____ Tom’s Cabin / Greek flatbreads

6 Basco who played Rufio in Hook (1991) / It can be rough

7 Buddy / Of low social rank

8 Creatures which serve as Duke Igthorn’s minions in Adventures of the Gummi Bears / Dome-shaped home

9 A carbohydrate / Incline (towards)

10 A pointed throwing weapon / Farley Drexel Hatcher’s sweet nickname in a series of novels by Judy Blume

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Blog entries

* Egyptian city near Lake Nasser

* Bakula of Quantum Leap

* Push gently

* Tool for making mashed potatoes

* Shinbone

* According to Genesis, one covered the entire Earth

* “Gangnam ____” (hit song for Korean rapper Psy)

* Ear ____

* Fruit used in making wine

* Containers for vaccines, often

* Bengal ____

* “Rhythm of the ____” (DeBarge hit)

* Primitive calculators

* Pascal of Game of Thrones

* Like a male lion, but not a lioness

* Winter neckwear item

* Undue swiftness

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* What's an 8-letter word for "Won't You Be My ____? (2018 documentary about Mister Rogers)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 469: Spicy German Sausage 2

WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Cathy Bowen. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!

In a German Sausage, a type of puzzle originating from the National Puzzlers League, when you take the indicated pairs of answers to the clues from the first list, combine their letters, and anagram them, you get the answers to the clues from the second list. (For example, ANAGRAM and SEGUES can be combined and anagrammed to make GERMAN SAUSAGE.) However, in this variation, you must add an extra letter to each pair of answers to make the longer answer (for example, you might make GERMAN SAUSAGE from ANAGRAM and GUESS plus an extra E). 

Rearrange the added letters in (parentheses) to make a 6-letter word, and rearrange the added letters in [square brackets] to make a 6-letter word. Write these words in the final set of blanks, and rearrange the letters in {curly braces} to make a 6-letter word, the final answer.

1. Type of wrestling that’s popular in Japan

2. There are two in a quart

3. Supreme Court justice Sandra ____ O’Connor

4. Provide one’s username and password, say (2 wds.)

5. Kept

6. Small branch

7. Not far

8. Incites, with “on”

9. Careful management of money

10. Sesame Street Muppet with orange fur

11. Trumpets and oboes, for example

12. ____ for Humanity (house-building nonprofit)

1+2+(__). The taking up of Mary, in Catholicism

2+3+[__]. Like the dark future in some sci-fi

3+4+(__). With love

4+5+[__]. The ancestor of our modern language (2 wds.)

5+6+(__). Alloy used as imitation platinum (2 wds.)

6+7+[__]. Pajamas and such

7+8+(__). Anne Brontë’s debut novel (2 wds.)

8+9+[__]. Nervousness felt around an audience (2 wds.)

9+10+(__). Malfunctioning (3 wds.)

10+11+[__]. Reduced the number of employees, for example

11+12+(__). The tactic of trying to upsell a customer from an initially attractive cheap item (3 wds.)

12+1+[__]. Popular name for a form of the tu quoque fallacy

(Parentheses): __ {__} __ {__} {__} __

[Square brackets]: {__} __ __ {__} __ {__}

{Curly braces}: __ __ __ __ __ __

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Bakula of Quantum Leap"?

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Wordy Wednesday 468: DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13
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Texas city named after a Kansas city __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                     14 63 28 42 69 93 56

Gourd shaped like the nut of an oak tree: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                 18 81 59 89 29 45 49 85 72 05 74

Make X-shaped needlework: hyph. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                33 86 46 83 68 90 76 25 24 17 96

Common practice __ __ __ __ __ __

                84 47 67 73 78 37

Excess of expenditure over revenue __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                   26 16 02 06 53 35 82

Soap opera of which The Colbys was a spin-off __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                              60 38 23 07 61 70 94

Mythical grave-robbing monsters __ __ __ __ __ __

                                30 77 43 50 48 64

Color between blue and violet on a spectrum __ __ __ __ __ __

                                            80 20 71 87 41 39

Neil Diamond song covered by UB40: 3 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                          58 66 09 52 19 57 91 03 44 27

One of the Society Islands __ __ __ __ __ __

                           08 36 11 32 15 75

Source of bad luck in military cigarette- __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   lighting superstitions: 4 wds.         21 54 55 13 22 92 40 51 34 01 95 10 62

Diaeresis look-alike __ __ __ __ __ __

                     12 65 31 04 88 79

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What was Anne Brontë's debut novel?
* Patron Puzzle #95, which will be delivered on April 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Word Games Puzzle.

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