Wordy Wednesday 471: Codewords 18 & Wordy Wednesday 472: Hex Pathfinder 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2 (answer)

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Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #470
PENT WORDS 94 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #471
CODEWORDS 18
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #472
HEX PATHFINDER 28
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.

1SW Fastener on a door (5)

2SE Beat (5)

2SE Old adage promoting eloquence over violent force (28, 7 wds.)

3E Uprising (6)

4SW Speedy (5)

5NW Utah senator Romney (4)

6W Inspirational leader’s quality (8)

7NW Rose feature (5)

8NW 1985 hit for Stevie Wonder (13, 2 wds., hyph.)

9SE Shinbone (5)

10SE Place to watch niche independent films (8, 2 wds.)

11E Won't You Be My ____? (2018 documentary about Mister Rogers) (8)

12E Choice morsel (6)

13E Senseless (5)

14SE Rose feature (5)

15NW Feed the kitty (4)

16SE Band that performed “Blue Monday” (8, 2 wds.)

17SW Keep possession of (6)

18NE He was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut in 1985 (10, 2 wds.)

19NW Device with which to point and click (5)

19SW “____ Tried” (Merle Haggard song) (4)

20SE Flash of lightning (11)

21SE Fill with wonder (5)

22NW Trainee (6)

23NW A sedimentary rock (5)

24NE Common Christmas decoration (6)

25SW Weft’s counterpart (4)

26NW Center (10, 2 wds.)

27NW Family Feud’s Fast Money, for one (10, 2 wds.)

28W Certain crustacean (5)

29W Bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem (5)

30W Vanessa of Coriolanus (2011) (8)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!

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Wordy Wednesday 470: Pent Words 94

WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13 (answer)

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Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #470
PENT WORDS 94
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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 Mix recipe ingredients, perhaps / Marvel Comics character who can freeze things

2 Hooded snakes / Dwindle

3 ____ Pursuit (board game) / “____ But True” (Metallica song)

4 Warm / Brandenburg Concertos composer

5 ____ Tom’s Cabin / Greek flatbreads

6 Basco who played Rufio in Hook (1991) / It can be rough

7 Buddy / Of low social rank

8 Creatures which serve as Duke Igthorn’s minions in Adventures of the Gummi Bears / Dome-shaped home

9 A carbohydrate / Incline (towards)

10 A pointed throwing weapon / Farley Drexel Hatcher’s sweet nickname in a series of novels by Judy Blume

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Blog entries

* Egyptian city near Lake Nasser

* Bakula of Quantum Leap

* Push gently

* Tool for making mashed potatoes

* Shinbone

* According to Genesis, one covered the entire Earth

* “Gangnam ____” (hit song for Korean rapper Psy)

* Ear ____

* Fruit used in making wine

* Containers for vaccines, often

* Bengal ____

* “Rhythm of the ____” (DeBarge hit)

* Primitive calculators

* Pascal of Game of Thrones

* Like a male lion, but not a lioness

* Winter neckwear item

* Undue swiftness

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* What's an 8-letter word for "Won't You Be My ____? (2018 documentary about Mister Rogers)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 469: Spicy German Sausage 2

WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46 (answer)

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Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #469
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 2
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In a German Sausage, a type of puzzle originating from the National Puzzlers League, when you take the indicated pairs of answers to the clues from the first list, combine their letters, and anagram them, you get the answers to the clues from the second list. (For example, ANAGRAM and SEGUES can be combined and anagrammed to make GERMAN SAUSAGE.) However, in this variation, you must add an extra letter to each pair of answers to make the longer answer (for example, you might make GERMAN SAUSAGE from ANAGRAM and GUESS plus an extra E). 

Rearrange the added letters in (parentheses) to make a 6-letter word, and rearrange the added letters in [square brackets] to make a 6-letter word. Write these words in the final set of blanks, and rearrange the letters in {curly braces} to make a 6-letter word, the final answer.

1. Type of wrestling that’s popular in Japan

2. There are two in a quart

3. Supreme Court justice Sandra ____ O’Connor

4. Provide one’s username and password, say (2 wds.)

5. Kept

6. Small branch

7. Not far

8. Incites, with “on”

9. Careful management of money

10. Sesame Street Muppet with orange fur

11. Trumpets and oboes, for example

12. ____ for Humanity (house-building nonprofit)

1+2+(__). The taking up of Mary, in Catholicism

2+3+[__]. Like the dark future in some sci-fi

3+4+(__). With love

4+5+[__]. The ancestor of our modern language (2 wds.)

5+6+(__). Alloy used as imitation platinum (2 wds.)

6+7+[__]. Pajamas and such

7+8+(__). Anne Brontë’s debut novel (2 wds.)

8+9+[__]. Nervousness felt around an audience (2 wds.)

9+10+(__). Malfunctioning (3 wds.)

10+11+[__]. Reduced the number of employees, for example

11+12+(__). The tactic of trying to upsell a customer from an initially attractive cheap item (3 wds.)

12+1+[__]. Popular name for a form of the tu quoque fallacy

(Parentheses): __ {__} __ {__} {__} __

[Square brackets]: {__} __ __ {__} __ {__}

{Curly braces}: __ __ __ __ __ __

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Bakula of Quantum Leap"?

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Wordy Wednesday 468: DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93 (answer)

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Kevin Orfield **
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Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #468
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 13
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Texas city named after a Kansas city __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                     14 63 28 42 69 93 56

Gourd shaped like the nut of an oak tree: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                 18 81 59 89 29 45 49 85 72 05 74

Make X-shaped needlework: hyph. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                33 86 46 83 68 90 76 25 24 17 96

Common practice __ __ __ __ __ __

                84 47 67 73 78 37

Excess of expenditure over revenue __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                   26 16 02 06 53 35 82

Soap opera of which The Colbys was a spin-off __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                              60 38 23 07 61 70 94

Mythical grave-robbing monsters __ __ __ __ __ __

                                30 77 43 50 48 64

Color between blue and violet on a spectrum __ __ __ __ __ __

                                            80 20 71 87 41 39

Neil Diamond song covered by UB40: 3 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                          58 66 09 52 19 57 91 03 44 27

One of the Society Islands __ __ __ __ __ __

                           08 36 11 32 15 75

Source of bad luck in military cigarette- __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   lighting superstitions: 4 wds.         21 54 55 13 22 92 40 51 34 01 95 10 62

Diaeresis look-alike __ __ __ __ __ __

                     12 65 31 04 88 79

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What was Anne Brontë's debut novel?
* Patron Puzzle #95, which will be delivered on April 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Word Games Puzzle.

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Wordy Wednesday 466: Section Six 46 & Wordy Wednesday 467: Snake Crisscross 19

WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS (answer)

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Karen Spencer **
M. Sean Molley **
Randy Rogers **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Jason Boomer **
Jason Taniguchi **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
[anonymous] *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46
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This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1

1 Turn away

2 Commute to work together, perhaps

3 Exorcist’s target

4 Search for water with a rod

5 New ____, Louisiana

6 Acquire

Ring 2

* Benedict Arnold’s crime

* “That makes my blood ____!”

* ____ Genesis Evangelion (anime series)

* Malcolm in the ____ (2000-2006 sitcom)

* A hard dinnerware material

Ring 3

* Some single-reed woodwinds

* Like some chicken wings: hyph.

* The ____, the Witch and the Wardrobe

* Small replica of a train, for example

Ring 4

* It may be Petrarchan or Shakespearean

* Texas city which was the capital of the former Republic of the Rio Grande

* Mouse once voiced by Marcellite Garner

Ring 5

* “There’s a ____ in My Beer” (Hank Williams song)

* Donald X. Vaccarino game that invented the deck-building genre

Ring 6

* Samantha who played Maria Gonzales in Code 46 (2003), or a big name in salt

WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS

3 LETTERS

Give pain to

Emulate an archaeologist

Janitor’s item

____ talk

4 LETTERS

Jurassic World: ____ Cretaceous (Netflix series)

Spanish painter Salvador

Heron relative

Seaweed

The Daily ____ (London newspaper)

“Skip a ____” (Henson Cargill song)

Recipe instruction, possibly

Drive down, as wet concrete

Cereal pursued by a rabbit

5 LETTERS

____ Management (2003 film with Adam Sandler)

Gorge

Colgate alternative

Ryan who played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies

____ punt (canine term for a football tactic also called a quick kick)

Harold of Ghostbusters

6 LETTERS

Like some Middle-earth languages

Like an accounting year

Become more lively: 2 wds.

7 LETTERS

Understood

Gin/vermouth cocktail

8 LETTERS

Patrick of SpongeBob SquarePants, for one

Advocates

9 LETTERS

Highly theatrical and emotional work

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Generous

Easily broken

Bicycle part

Kicks back

____ as a whip

6 LETTERS

Small restaurant

Make different

“____ Line” (Elton John/Stevie Wonder song)

Rectangular array in mathematics

Can ____ (kitchen device)

Lower part of the human trunk

Certain citrus fruit

Former Supreme Court justice Antonin

8 LETTERS

Coffee-flavored Italian dessert

9 LETTERS

Holiday marked by a New Orleans parade: 2 wds.

10 LETTERS

The MVP of Super Bowl LVI: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Texas city named after a Kansas city"?

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Word Wednesday 465: Pent Words 93

WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12 (answer)

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James Haddad **
Karen Spencer **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93
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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 “The wheels on the ____ go round and round. . .” / ____ John, M.D. (1979-1986 medical drama)

2 Handles for sword fighters / The Grapes of ____

3 Play it by ____ / Due ____

4 Be in accord / The heaviest inert gas

5 Wrack and ____ (complete destruction) / Series, as of consecutive wins

6 Dedicate / Some beers

7 Three-____ sloth / Two-speaker sound system

8 ____-teacher conference / Better Call ____ (AMC legal drama)

9 Relatives of the extinct quagga / ____ butter

10 Dora Winifred Read’s older brother / “We’re an American ____” (Grand Funk Railroad song)

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* November birthstone

* “I ____ It Through the Grapevine”

* ____ sprawl

* “I ____ Mi Amor” (Color Me Badd song)

* “Camptown ____”

* “Let’s get down to ____ tacks”

* What’s the ____ That Could Happen? (2001 film)

* Reasons to go to an auto repair shop, perhaps

* Spaghetti ____

* South Korea’s capital

* “Quit while you’re ____”

* Fail to be in accord

* The third planet from the sun

* Shopping ____ (1996-1997 game show)

* Observes

* The House That Jack ____ (2018 horror film)

* City where the Art Gallery of Western Australia is located

* Make changes to

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Samantha who played Maria Gonzales in Code 46 (2003), or a big name in salt"?
* What's a 5-letter word for "____ punt (canine term for a football tactic also called a quick kick)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 464: Word Puzzle in Three Colors

WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
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Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Mary Maynard **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS
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Citizens pay them to governments
State whose motto is “Friendship”
Word puzzle on Classic Concentration

Crash ____ Kart (video game)
Have a second attempt at
Metric volume unit’s American spelling

“All of Me” singer Sinatra
Apple, banana, cherry, or pear
Conscript (someone) for military service

Canada’s flag depicts its leaf
Digging tool or card suit
I ____ of Jeannie (sitcom)

Footballers who play in Chicago
Horned African mammal, in brief
Jaws is this marine predator

Answer to the first trio
Answer to the second trio
Answer to the third trio
Answer to the fourth trio
Answer to the fifth trio

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "The House That Jack ____ (2018 horror film)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 463: DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92 (answer)

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Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Patrick Jordan *
Peter Vickers **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Mary Maynard **
Stephen Potter *
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12
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Police ____ (1984 comedy) __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                          33 26 42 50 28 02 76

Temporarily care for a child __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                             16 04 48 73 71 65 21

Compromise: 3 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                   18 40 35 03 27 52 22 61 07 06 72

Enter a torpid state during winter, say __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                        78 43 56 69 32 41 01 15 38

Tidy up __ __ __ __ __ __

        12 34 13 64 25 05

One who believes that existence is senseless __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                             24 29 62 17 57 20 51 44

One inclined to make groan-inducing plays on      __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   words like the one in this puzzle’s final clue 09 75 30 39 77 63 55

Gunfight __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

         68 37 23 74 58 53 70 11

“Here is the church, here is the ____. . .” __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                            45 67 31 36 08 46 60

2019 HBO series based on a 1986 DC Comics series __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                 54 10 14 19 59 66 47 49

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* A word puzzle in three colors!

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Wordy Wednesday 462: Pathfinder 29

WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 Saw (9)

1 Seasonal Paul McCartney hit released in 1979 (9 13)

2 Ravine (5)

2 Traditional Venetian boat (7)

3 ____-contained (4)

4 Haunt (8)

5 Some firearms (6)

6 doTERRA offering (9 3)

7 Film director Tarantino (7)

8 Become a substitute (for) (4 2)

9 Place to buy a sandwich, briefly (4)

10 ____ doctor (4)

11 Sheen, as of metal (6)

12 Subject of canonization (5)

13 The ____ Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001-2007 cartoon) (4)

14 Pertaining to the sense of smell (9)

15 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men ____ No Tales (2017 movie) (4)

16 Journalist Holt (6)

17 Consumed (5)

18 Remains from a shipwreck, perhaps (7)

19 Docket (8)

20 Designs inked on skin (7)

21 Cover crop of genus Lolium (8)

22 2014 James Lapine play based on Moss Hart’s autobiography (3 3)

23 Hairstyle that’s longer at the back than at the top and sides (6)

23 Brawn (6)

24 Provided relief (7)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 8-letter word for "2019 HBO series based on a 1986 DC Comics series"?
* Patron Puzzle #94, which will be delivered on March 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a pair of Codewords.

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Wordy Wednesday 460: Pent Words 92 & Wordy Wednesday 461: Pathfinder 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92
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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 Very thin / Partner of bagels

2 Widespread / Miss Prissy, for one

3 An entertainer’s business representative / Big name in cameras

4 ____ It to Beaver / Al who achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted live TV weather report in 2014

5 A ramp may be an alternative to them / Comfort

6 Some coverlets / Reverberate

7 Malfoy of the Harry Potter series / Young pedaler’s vehicle, briefly

8 Extension, as of a magazine subscription / The day before Christmas, for example

9 Very brief / City in northern Italy

10 Religious subgroup / Chip ‘n’ Dale: ____ Rangers

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* A noble gas

* ____ Game (Netflix series that debuted in 2021)

* Lets

* Build

* Domesticates

* Speed competitions

* Item on the end of a shoelace

* A synthetic material

* Japanese noodles

* Discarded fragment

* Event’s locale

* To no ____ (unsuccessfully)

* Creepy

* Shape on many a Christian’s necklace

* Remove, as pencil marks

* A purple flower

* Fail in a critical situation

* ____ You for Smoking (2005 movie)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 2022 Paramount+ series based on a video game franchise (4)

2 Coordinated outfit (8)

3 Distinctive badges (7)

4 When Worlds ____ (1951 sci-fi flick) (7)

4 Like some surgery (8)

5 Vegetable also called crisphead (7 7)

6 Herb of the celery family (4)

7 Dough (6)

8 Attracted (5)

9 Clash of ____ (mobile strategy game) (5)

9 Based in sound judgment (14)

10 Reset a scale to zero (4)

11 Loon relative (5)

12 Loon (4)

13 ____ Ant (cartoon superhero) (4)

14 Release from one’s grip (3 2 2)

15 Unspoken (5)

16 Be extremely angry (6)

17 Rock band that has announced the “Dogz of Oz World Tour” for 2022 (4)

18 Ahead (6)

19 Spotted African wildcat (6)

20 Shoestring (4)

21 He played Venus Flytrap in WKRP in Cincinnati (3 4)

22 ____ Times Dinner and Tournament (chain of dinner theaters with jousting performers) (8)

23 Bluebirds, for example (8)

24 Baseball catcher’s need (4)

25 Second-rate (like something bought for ten cents?) (4-5)

26 Novelist Salman (7)

27 Lawrence Welk instrumental hit based on a German pop song originally titled “Tivoli Melody” (8)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Journalist Holt"?

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Wordy Wednesday 459: Snake Crisscross 18

WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS

3 LETTERS

Extraterrestrial voiced by Paul Fusco

Manx, for example

Poetic preposition

Annie Get Your ____

Miner’s find

____ capita

Perch

2000 pounds

4 LETTERS

____, cool, and collected

Double Dare host Summers

“It’s ____ of your business!”

Play miniature golf, say

Ripped

5 LETTERS

Autumn bloomer

Put forth, as effort

Grant entry to: 2 wds.

“Dr.” of Hop on Pop fame

City near Phoenix, AZ

6 LETTERS

Find not guilty

Like some skiing

Pool players’ items

7 LETTERS

Tributes

2000 and 2001 NBA All-Star Wallace

Harry Potter and the Chamber of ____

Mosaic tile

8 LETTERS

Company that changed its name to Meta in 2021

10 LETTERS

Transfer point within an electrical grid

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Far from active

Verbally attacks, with “into”

Very

Become joined

Element with atomic number 54

6 LETTERS

The Ballad of ____ Scruggs (2018 Western)

Unilever beauty bar brand

Wheel for moving furniture

Character

Bullfighter

7 LETTERS

Uncomfortably small

A vehicle’s hazard or turn signal

Drug trial need

Good items to have on hand when watching a sad movie, say

8 LETTERS

Its panhandle borders the Texas panhandle

9 LETTERS

Pregnancy

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "____ Game (Netflix series that debuted in 2021)"?
* What's a 4-letter word for "2022 Paramount+ series based on a video game franchise"?

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Wordy Wednesday 458: Codewords 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #455
PENT WORDS 91 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #456
SECTION SIX 45 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "The Ballad of ____ Scruggs (2018 Western)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 457: Crypticrostic 15

WORDY WEDNESDAY #454
PATHFINDER 27 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #455
PENT WORDS 91 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #456
SECTION SIX 45 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15
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The answer is enumerated (5 10).

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Abercrombie’s partner is athletic champion __ __ __ __ __

                                           36 60 32 25 06

Diagnose lunatic in California city __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __

                                    08 50 48    42 34 57 22 61

Excellent Scottish lord has gaseous hydrocarbon __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                20 55 46 33 17 03

Lost sanity, tore writing paper __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                54 56 40 27 47 10 02 39 31 26

New Testament missionary possessing place of lodging has a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

    ringing sensation in the ears                          15 37 24 58 52 45 30 04

Outstanding poem read out loud __ __ __ __

                               44 11 18 53

President is scourge drinking liquor __ __ __ __ __ __

                                     43 38 12 19 14 41

Ruler of Ontario in third month __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                51 07 62 16 21 29 09

Talked about melancholy laggard __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                59 35 01 05 13 28 49 23

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* Patron Puzzle #93, which will be delivered on February 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Pathfinder.

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