Wordy Wednesday 487: Pathfinder 30 & Wordy Wednesday 488: Feed the Foxes

WORDY WEDNESDAY #485
PENT WORDS 97 (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:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #486
SECTION SIX 48 (hint)

As of this writing, 11 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #487
PATHFINDER 30
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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 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 Planters (10)

2 Ones who are easily spooked (7-4)

3 Lawyer Vasquez who gained fame during the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial (7)

4 Members of Generation Y (11)

5 Killed, as a dragon (5)

6 Dock (4)

7 Certain chess piece (4)

7 Vincent van Gogh, for one (7)

8 Arachnid that hunts its prey instead of spinning a web (4 6)

9 Borrower’s payment (8)

10 They might have driver’s licenses in them (7)

11 Waterspout (9)

12 Autoinjector trademark (6)

13 Harris who played Max Troy in the film Dragnet (1954) (5)

14 Item in a fortune-teller’s pack (5 4)

15 Kneecap (7)

16 Injury created by abrasion (6)

17 Unceasing (7)

18 Use a spittoon (11)

19 Madrid resident (8)

20 A noble gas (5)

21 Not abed (5)

22 Portions of a circle’s circumference (4)

23 Passionate (6)

24 “____ Love Out of Nothing at All” (Air Supply song) (6)

24 Pertaining to the sea (6)

25 Certain chess piece (4)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #488
FEED THE FOXES
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron M. Sean Molley. 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!
These foxes thought that they’d find food in this grid, but now they’re frustrated! Arrange the lettered pieces, without rotating or reflecting them, to fill the empty grid spaces, and then move each fox the number of cells indicated to help it find what it wants to eat. Foxes may only move horizontally or vertically (not diagonally), but their paths may turn. No fox will cross the path of another fox or retrace its own path. Not all cells will be visited by foxes.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Framelinks!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 486: Section Six 48

WORDY WEDNESDAY #484
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 10 (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:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #485
PENT WORDS 97 (hint)

As of this writing, 13 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #486
SECTION SIX 48
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This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1

1 ____ collie

2 Letter before pi

3 Journalist Stahl

4 Grating, as a voice

5 Anklebones

6 “Heart-Shaped Box” band

Ring 2

* ____ and board

* Montalban who played Vincent Ludwig in The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!

* Most prodigious

* Sterling silver, for one

* “I Am Woman” singer Reddy

Ring 3

* Breed of dairy cattle

* ____ Day (holiday for planting trees)

* Tall wardrobe

* “____ You (And You Alone)” (The Platters song)

Ring 4

* The largest city in Nevada’s Washoe County

* Delirious behavior

* Spanish-speaking neighborhood in the United States

Ring 5

* Off the ground

* Multitude

Ring 6

* Dan who was a regular on 48 Hours

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Lawyer Vasquez who gained fame during the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial"?
* Can you feed the hungry foxes?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 485: Pent Words 97

WORDY WEDNESDAY #482
CRYPTICROSTIC 16 (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:
Cathy Bowen **
Cole Kendall **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Jason Boomer **
John Bulten **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #483
FRAMELINKS 13 (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:
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #484
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 10 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #485
PENT WORDS 97
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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 Springer ____ / Guided
2 Rib / Deplorable
3 Baltimore baseballer / “Chocolate ____” (2007 hit for Tay Zonday)
4 Absolutely dry / The allocation of treatment to hospital patients
5 Absolute ruler / Spar on a ship
6 Door joint / Verbally
7 Sea anemone, for one / Sharpened
8 Legally bar / Rabbit relatives
9 Stay the ____ (persist) / “Praise the Lord and ____ the Ammunition”
10 South American mammal related to the raccoon / θ
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Garlic-flavored mayonnaise
* Herb of the carrot family
* Barkin of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
* Church offering
* ____ Puffs (General Mills cereal)
* Musical composition for developing a specific technique
* Shepherd’s ____ (annual herb)
* Horned African mammal, briefly
* Some heart chambers
* Spaghetti or ravioli, for example
* Say Yes to the ____ (TLC reality series)
* Short-tailed weasel
* Icon or symbol
* Waikiki welcome
* “Live Like You Were ____” (Tim McGraw song)
* Fall bloomer
* Devil May Cry protagonist
* Green Italian sauce

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Dan who was a regular on 48 Hours"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home: FINAL RESULTS!

FINAL SCORES

Here is a table of all of the participants and their scores (click to enlarge):

Participants are sorted by score (high to low), and then alphabetically.

* Bo & Becky Green got to see some puzzles early, since y’all aren't competing against each other, but against my wallet, and therefore I’m actually only hurting myself. However, I have put this asterisk here in case y’all care about comparing yourselves to each other. Also, now that I have three anonymous benefactors matching my donation, and y’all are competing against four wallets instead of one, maybe I should refrain from this practice if there’s ever a “Season 2” of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. . .

The total number of points scored was 7675. Thus, the final money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas was $76.75. Three anonymous readers are offering to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank of West Central Texas will actually receive $307.00. Thanks in advance to all of you for your generosity!

Head below the break for the actual solutions!

Wordy Wednesday 484: Divided Into Columns 10

WORDY WEDNESDAY #481
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 8 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #482
CRYPTICROSTIC 16 (hint)

As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #483
FRAMELINKS 13 (hint)

As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #484
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 10
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Plant used in skin care products __ __ __ __

                                 67 43 51 08

Community star who played   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   Pierce Hawthorne: 2 wds. 24 50 40 70 17 01 76 53 89 60

Pick and ____ __ __ __ __ __ __

              86 28 16 07 22 25

NBC series hosted by Joe Rogan with a brief  __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   revival on MTV hosted by Ludacris: 2 wds. 46 81 72 52 20 91 05 26 39 56

Place to buy secondhand items: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                      41 77 73 18 14 27 65 09 37 04

1995 Al Pacino/Robert De Niro film __ __ __ __

                                   38 31 90 69

Many a secular thinker __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                       61 35 95 66 83 54 30 11

Like a desperate final effort: hyph. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                     87 23 68 34 57 82 33 36 94

Soccer star born in Selma, Alabama: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                           15 74 49 06 12 88 58

Hangman’s knot __ __ __ __ __

               85 62 03 59 19

Breakfast item that’s an ingredient in some cookies __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                    42 63 48 55 93 84 21

Landmark in Wiltshire, England __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                               96 79 29 64 02 92 13 10 32 45

Daihatsu’s parent company __ __ __ __ __ __

                          44 47 71 78 75 80

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Barkin of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)"?
* Patron Puzzle #98, which will be delivered on July 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Vocabulary Fun Pack.

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home: Final hint and final week!

PREVIOUS ENTRIES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home"): click here

Part 1 (See Monsters): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 6 people solved it later for 25 points.

Part 2 (The Joy of Paintings): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Part 3 (Side Effects May Include Disney-ness): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 16 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Part 4 (Overbooked): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 14 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Part 5 (Air Letters): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 14 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 3 people solved it later for 25 points.

Part 6 (Words on Rye): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 14 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 3 people solved it later for 25 points.

Part 7 (What's the Deal?): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Part 8 (Breakfast Scramble): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Part 9 (Meta) ("Ate" Queens Problem): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 8 people solved this within the first week for 100 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 7375. Thus, the current money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas is $73.75. Three anonymous readers are offering to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank of West Central Texas will actually receive $295.00. Thanks in advance to all of you for your generosity! If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, or the meta for 50 points, possibly with the aid of the hints. This week is your final chance to score points and earn money for the food bank!

Stay tuned next week for all of the solutions and the final results. Good luck!