Wordy Wednesday 673: Mini Touchword 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #671
LETRAVEX 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #672
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 16 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #673
MINI TOUCHWORD 9
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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 Sheet from a book / ____-toed
2 Artifact associated with a saint / “____ We Have Heard on High”
3 Back part / Terminates, as a subscription
4 Item in an oyster’s shell / Surplus
5 Completely confuse / Direction of a sunrise
6 The Badge of Military Merit, since World War I: 2 wds.
7 Garbage / Reset a scale to zero
8 Teacher on Jewish law / Parody
9 Sharp projection / Scheduling
10 Canine cries / “Every cloud has a silver ____”
11 Certain piece of silverware / “In my humble ____. . .”

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