Wordy Wednesday 674: Logicrossword 18

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

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Cathy Bowen **
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Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
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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.

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

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