Wordy Wednesday 676: Sudokurostic 10

WORDY WEDNESDAY #674
LOGICROSSWORD 18 (answer)

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Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Spheniscine Kynosoura **
SquishmallowsUnited **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #675
PENT WORDS 135 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #676
SUDOKUROSTIC 10
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Solve the clues by writing one letter per blank; the clues are alphabetized by the answers as a solving aid. Transfer the letters to the corresponding spaces and fill in the remaining spaces to form a valid sudoku, but with 9 different letters instead of numbers. (Each row, column, and box must contain those 9 letters in some order.) Treat the finished grid as a word search and look for a 6-letter word, which is this puzzle’s final answer.

Zeal __ __ __ __ __
     A7 H7 D1 G2 F1
Place to score a touchdown: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                   A3 G1 H3 B6 D9 C2 C8
“Neither a borrower nor a ____ be” __ __ __ __ __ __
                                   I7 F9 I4 B4 D2 D8
Black and orange Baltimore bird __ __ __ __ __ __
                                A4 B3 H6 B7 F2 I6
“I’ve Been Working on the ____” __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                C9 I3 G8 H4 A6 C1 F8 G9

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What is the trademarked name for the board game Reversi?

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Wordy Wednesday 675: Pent Words 135

WORDY WEDNESDAY #673
MINI TOUCHWORD 9 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Spheniscine Kynosoura **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #674
LOGICROSSWORD 18 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #675
PENT WORDS 135
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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 ____ Dry (ginger ale brand) / “Don’t ____ with Texas”
2 Murphy’s ____ / Orange peach-like fruit
3 Daniel who played Marv in Home Alone / Gallops
4 Oblique / Smaller picture surrounded by a larger one
5 Taycan manufacturer / “Fortunate ____” (Creedence Clearwater Revival hit)
6 Caulk, for example / Female deer
7 Very unsightly / Quite calm
8 Southern Asian women’s garment / Make lower in status
9 Not wide / Oasis guitarist Gallagher
10 ____ Enchanted (2004 film starring Anne Hathaway) / ____-of-fact
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Pascal of the Animal Crossing games is one
• Texas Roadhouse offering
• Clint Eastwood’s son who’s also an actor
• Support used by a painter
• Sharon of Basic Instinct (1992)
• Guns N’ ____
• ____ the Dragon (1973 Bruce Lee film)
• Artificial waterway
• Reproductive body produced by a fungus
• “All the news that’s fit to ____”
• Parenthetical remark
• Recipient of a gift
• Cognizant
• Hauling machine
• Mammal that Emperor Kuzco gets turned into
• Actress Struthers of All in the Family
• Women, in old slang
• A type of drum

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Black and orange Baltimore bird"?

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Wordy Wednesday 674: Logicrossword 18

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

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Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Spheniscine Kynosoura **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #673
MINI TOUCHWORD 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #674
LOGICROSSWORD 18
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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 1 contains a 6-letter word.
• Row 4’s rightmost letter is in the first half of the alphabet.
• Row 5 contains a 5-letter word.
• Row 6 contains the words PRIMA and REG, in that order from left to right.
• Row 8’s leftmost letter does not appear in row 9.
• Column A contains the word WHA, which intersects AGENE and WOOSH.
• Column B contains the word YE, which intersects MET. Columns B and E have the same topmost letter.
• Column C contains exactly one black cell.
• Column D does not contain the letter D or E.
• Column G contains exactly one instance of the letter G, but does not contain the letter T.
• The row or column which contains the word OBI (which intersects HOD) also contains another instance of the letter I.
• The word EWE reading across intersects the word OWN reading down at cell H2.
• The word MA reading across intersects the word ME reading down at cell H8.
• The word EBON appears somewhere in the grid.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Actress Struthers of All in the Family"?

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Wordy Wednesday 673: Mini Touchword 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #671
LETRAVEX 3 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Jevon Heath **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Ryan Faley **
Ryon Chan **
Sam Levitin **
Steve Levy **

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

As of this writing, 10 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

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 ____. . .”

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Logicrossword!
* Patron Puzzle #138, which will be delivered on November 8, 2025, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Large Sudokurostic.

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