Wordy Wednesday 633: Framelinks 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #631
ANACROSSWORD 43 (answer)

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James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
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Russ Kale **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #632
MINI CROSSWORD (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #633
FRAMELINKS 26
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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 8-letter word.

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* What's an 11-letter, 2-word answer for "Quaker who founded the city of Philadelphia"?

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