Wordy Wednesday 624: Logicrossword 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #622
LOGICROSSWORD 11 (answer)

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Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz *
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Spheniscine *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #623
CODEWORDS 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #624
LOGICROSSWORD 12
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Blacken some cells in the grid and fill the rest with letters to form words. Hereafter, a “word” refers to any string of two or more consecutive letters reading from left to right or top to bottom, bounded on both sides by black cells or the edge of the grid. All words are Scrabble-legal and appear in the NASPA Word List 2023 Edition (NWL2023). A list of all acceptable 2-letter words is provided as a solving aid; all of the words which are not on this list and not mentioned in the clues should be familiar to most solvers. Use the clues, logic, and your vocabulary to find the solution.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to get the final answer, a single Scrabble-legal word. (If any of the highlighted cells are blackened, then the final answer will be less than 8 letters long.)

AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO BY DA DE DO ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EW EX FA FE GI GO HA HE HI HM HO ID IF IN IS IT JO KA KI LA LI LO MA ME MI MM MO MU MY NA NE NO NU OD OE OF OH OI OK OM ON OP OR OS OW OX OY PA PE PI PO QI RE SH SI SO TA TE TI TO UH UM UN UP US UT WE WO XI XU YA YE YO ZA
• No two black cells share an edge. All the white cells are connected through their edges. No word is repeated in the grid.
• Rows 2 and 8 contain the words ENAMEL and EUCHRE, in some order.
• Row 3 contains the word OPS.
• Row 4 contains a 2-letter word.
• Column C contains a word whose first and third letters are the same, and whose second letter is the same as the topmost letter in the column.
• Column D contains the word ROE.
• Column E contains the words LUDO and LUNA.
• Column G contains the word WAX.
• Column H contains the word TEA.
• Column I contains exactly 1 black cell.
• The words NOO and UNI intersect.
• A 5-letter word and a 6-letter word intersect at A9.
• Two words of the same length intersect at B1.
• The words DAFT, ECO, IN, MU, and TO appear somewhere.
• The rightmost letter in row 6 is the same as the bottommost letter in column F.

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