Wordy Wednesday 661: Mini Touchword 8

WORDY WEDNESDAY #659
SUDOKUROSTIC 9 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #660
PENT WORDS 132 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #661
MINI TOUCHWORD 8
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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 Trickle / Hell for ____
2 One with two identical siblings / ____ Might Be Giants (rock band)
3 Fats Navarro’s instrument / Not difficult
4 ____ change / Bosom
5 Item to sit in / Basketball great Kobe
6 One with psychic perception
7 Set in the ground, as seeds / Simultaneous discharge of many projectiles
8 One of sixteen at the start of a chess game / Vehicle in an ethical thought experiment
9 Young deer / Support for climbing vines
10 Tinker Bell, for one / John McEnroe’s sport
11 Place where butter is made / Surname of the family from ALF

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