Wordy Wednesday 646: Section Six 64

WORDY WEDNESDAY #644
MINI TOUCHWORD 4 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #645
PENT WORDS 129 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #646
SECTION SIX 64
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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 starred spaces to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Canadian province neighboring North Dakota and Minnesota
2 Examine critically
3 Digging device with a helical shaft
4 Careful reading
5 “Tell Me the ____ of Jesus” (Christian hymn)
6 Programming language associated with turtle graphics

Ring 2
• The ____ Birds Movie (2016 animated film based on a smartphone app)
• Water lily associated with a yoga position
• By and ____
• Safeguards
• Small particle of matter

Ring 3
• Money borrowed at interest
• Complain
• Flying ____
• Administrative

Ring 4
• Devoted
• Porch bordered by colonnades
• City northeast of San Francisco famous for its wine

Ring 5
• In the future
• Concern for Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell

Ring 6
• Item in a colorful box of 64

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 11-letter, 2-word answer for "1982 film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"?

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Wordy Wednesday 645: Pent Words 129

WORDY WEDNESDAY #643
LOGICROSSWORD 14 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #644
MINI TOUCHWORD 4 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #645
PENT WORDS 129
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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 License ____ / Operated a car
2 Spiny sea creature / “Only the ____ Die Young” (Billy Joel hit)
3 Country singer LeAnn / Cloth worn around the neck
4 Neglectful / Structure on a harbor
5 Baio of Happy Days / Fill with joy
6 Like medicine made from plants / Extol
7 With The, 1960 film starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett / Joint between the hand and the arm
8 Mortar’s partner / Blood vessel
9 At any time / Melodious trill, as of a bird
10 “Don’t take any wooden ____” / The Cat in the ____
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Big rigs
• Permit
• “Shoot first and ask questions ____”
• Pleased cats’ murmurs
• Sales pitch
• Australian canid
• Three-time Green Party presidential candidate Jill
• Hold responsible
• Makers of the Lynx handheld gaming system
• Irish playwright Wilde
• Webbed-footed relative of the weasel
• Wandered
• ____ rarebit
• Number of heavenly virtues
• Goat’s cry
• Slip namesake Sigmund
• Burton who hosted Reading Rainbow
• Sound of a bell

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Item in a colorful box of 64"?

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Wordy Wednesday 644: Mini Touchword 4

WORDY WEDNESDAY #642
FRAMELINKS 27 (answer)

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Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
CP80 **
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Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Squishmallows United **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #643
LOGICROSSWORD 14 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #644
MINI TOUCHWORD 4
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In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, all answers read across, and every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent. (If you want more of these puzzles, the author offers the Touchword subscription service Outside the Fox Puzzles.) Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word.

1 Fashion magazine since 1892 / Using two sound channels
2 Actor D’Onofrio of Law & Order: Criminal Intent / Trademarked name of a sandwich cookie
3 Cylindrical container for food: 2 wds. / British term for a flashlight
4 Textile patterns associated with Scottish clans / Curved structure
5 Creamy white condiment often served with seafood: 2 wds.
6 Large cut of steak from the rear end of the short loin
7 Gymnastics apparatus that may not be touched except with the hands: 2 wds.
8 ABC late night host Jimmy / Lena who played Glinda the Good in The Wiz
9 Exploding ____ (2015 card game created by The Oatmeal) / Walker’s aid
10 “Something is ____ in the state of Denmark” / Frightening
11 Scoundrels / Former Pittsburgh Steeler Bradshaw

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Makers of the Lynx handheld gaming system"?

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Wordy Wednesday 643: Logicrossword 14

WORDY WEDNESDAY #641
FOXGERYPTICS 20 (answer)

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Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
CP80 **
John Bulten *
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins *
Patrick Jordan **
Sam Levitin **
Squishmallows United **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #642
FRAMELINKS 27 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #643
LOGICROSSWORD 14
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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.
• Row 5 contains the words MOLA and MU, and exactly one instance of the letter V. Besides MU, exactly one other 2-letter word reading across appears in the grid.
• Row 6 does not contain the letter I.
• The rightmost letter in row 4 appears exactly once in row 1.
• The rightmost letter in row 9 appears elsewhere in the row, but it is not the letter in cell B9.
• Column C contains a 2-letter word whose second letter does not appear anywhere else in the grid. Besides that word, exactly four other 2-letter words reading down appear in the grid, including AT, BY (which intersects COB), and ES.
• Column G contains exactly three instances of the letter A and exactly one instance of the letter S.
• Column H contains the word RES (which intersects ALE) and a 5-letter word whose third letter is N.
• The word BRUX reading across intersects the word ARIA reading down at cell B2.
• The word ORT reading across intersects the word COMTE reading down at cell D7.
• A 7-letter word containing the substring RR appears somewhere.
• A word containing the substring BA appears somewhere.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 11-letter, 2-word answer for "Creamy white condiment often served with seafood"?

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Wordy Wednesday 642: Framelinks 27

WORDY WEDNESDAY #640
PENT WORDS 128 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
CP80 **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
owen.mech **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Squishmallows United **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #641
FOXGERYPTICS 20 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #642
FRAMELINKS 27
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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.

A A A A A A   B B B   C C C C C C   D D   E E E E E E E E E E E   G G   H H   I I   L L L L   M M
N N N N N   O O O O O O   P P P   R R R R R R R R R   S   T T T T T T T   U U   V   W   Y Y   Z

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Logicrossword!
* Patron Puzzle #131, which will be delivered on April 8, 2025, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a pair of Codewords.

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