Wordy Wednesday 681: Touchword 34

WORDY WEDNESDAY #679
CODEWORDS 32 (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 **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #680
PENT WORDS 136 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #681
TOUCHWORD 34
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Every row has one or more answers clued in order. 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.) 8-letter word.

1 Make a decision / Repugnant / Burt who played Robin in the 1960’s
2 Utter confusion / Smallest / Word on a road sign
3 Delicate and breakable / Angels in the ____ (1994 baseball film)
4 Quite cold / From ____ to nuts / Result of heavy rains
5 Sitcom whence the song “Smelly Cat” / Leader of the Catholic Church / Spoils of war
6 Murder on the ____ Express / “Once ____ a midnight dreary. . .” / The Hateful ____ (2015 film)
7 Shallot relative / Large brass instrument / Equine sounds
8 He played the father in the Spy Kids films: 2 wds.
9 A voice in a choir / Aslan is one / ____ Bureau of Investigation
10 Ball-and-chain weapon / Bestow / Ellipse-shaped
11 Delicate and breakable / It’s just below the mouth / Display excessive subservience
12 Romp / Turning point / Scottish-Highland dance
13 Absurd / Fee paid on a loan
14 Birds’ perches / Direction at 315 degrees
15 Sigmas’ predecessors / A voice in a choir / Oppose successfully

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* What's a 4-letter word for “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak ____”?

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