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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[anonymous] *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
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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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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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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WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12
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__ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __

01 02 03    04 05 06    07 08 09    10 11 12    13 14 15    16 17 18    19 20 21    

__ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __

22 23 24    25 26 27    28 29 30    31 32 33    34 35 36    37 38 39    40 41 42

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43 44 45    46 47 48    49 50 51    52 53 54    55 56 57    58 59 60    61 62 63

__ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __    __ __ __

64 65 66    67 68 69    70 71 72    73 74 75    76 77 78

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

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* 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).

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

__ __ __ __

59 60 61 62

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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Wordy Wednesday 455: Pent Words 91 & Wordy Wednesday 456: Section Six 45

WORDY WEDNESDAY #453
PUZZLE BUFF'S NIGHTMARE (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #454
PATHFINDER 27 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #455
PENT WORDS 91
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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 Unix shell programming language created by Brian Fox / Image representing someone online

2 Itemized bill / Nanakuli neckwear

3 Like some awakenings / Interval between two adjacent C’s, in music

4 Wintertime conveyance / It’s often seen on a pirate’s shoulder

5 Richard Nixon insisted that he wasn’t one / Squander

6 Navedo of Jane the Virgin / Mario ____Live: Home Circuit (2020 Nintendo Switch game)

7 “Oh, give me a home where the buffalo ____. . .” / Popular hot dog condiment

8 Large-eared desert fox / Vague

9 Deep breath, as of relief or exhaustion / Prisoner

10 Second-lowest voice in a four-part chorus / Wizards of the ____ (Magic: The Gathering publisher)

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded it in 1972

* Word before “gang” or “reaction”

* Baking need

* Florida senator Rubio

* Banquet in which the honoree is lovingly ridiculed

* Avoid

* Classical composer Franz

* Fully conscious

* Basketball player Rajon, or a classical music form

* Japanese noodle soup

* Whinny

* Item on a washstand

* Having lines, as notebook paper

* Common part of a winter outfit

* Welcome to ____ (2021 Disney+ series starring Will Smith)

* Certain courtroom employee, briefly

* Chosen

* “Cry ‘____!’ and let slip the dogs of war. . .” (line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #456
SECTION SIX 45
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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 It may be served on the cob

2 Buckner’s partner

3 Government order prohibiting outgoing merchant ships

4 Name shared by a Catholic theologian and Charles Darwin’s poet grandfather

5 Christian music genre

6 Football commentator John whose surname can also mean “make very angry”

Ring 2

* Called to respond to a charge, as an accused person

* Fast food mascot McDonald

* ____ salt (common form of magnesium sulfate)

* ____ protector (electrical device)

* Brazilian music genre

Ring 3

* Many a Muslim, ethnically

* Wizards

* Often rubbery item at a computer workstation: 2 wds.

* Tearing to pieces

Ring 4

* With “The”, the smallest nation on mainland Africa

* What Bruno Mars “would catch. . . for ya” in a 2010 hit

* “Grandma” of folk art fame

Ring 5

* Word following “mirror” or “spitting”

* Pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ring 6

* Rapper associated with the Sirius XM station Shade 45

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Crypticrostic!

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Wordy Wednesday 454: Pathfinder 27

WORDY WEDNESDAY #452
CODEWORDS 16 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #453
PUZZLE BUFF'S NIGHTMARE (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #454
PATHFINDER 27
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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 ____ Without a Cause (1955 film) (5)

2 Sci-fi adventure video game published by Chucklefish in 2016 (9)

3 Devilish (7)

4 Lewinsky who became famous from a Bill Clinton scandal (6)

5 ____ duck (Chinese dish) (6)

6 German physician Alois after whom a form of dementia was named (9)

7 Cartoon character who sings “Oh My Darling, Clementine” (11 5)

8 The ____ and I (4)

9 Gentle breeze (6)

10 Experimental test subjects (3 4)

11 2007 Disney film starring Amy Adams as Princess Giselle (9)

12 Dawdle (10)

13 Rational (4)

13 Outer covering of an ear of corn (5)

14 Holdup (5)

15 Doughy (6)

16 De novo (4)

17 Storekeeper (8)

18 ____ 6 (lodging chain) (5)

19 Sleeper’s affliction, perhaps (5)

20 Word after “martial” or “liberal” (4)

21 Covalent ____ (4)

22 “____ Madonna” (hit song for The Beatles) (4)

23 Unofficial vote (5 4)

24 Move like a horse, perhaps (6)

25 People hired to park customers’ cars (6)

25 Tramp (8)

26 A type of alga (6)

27 William Randolph Hearst’s great-granddaughter who’s a fashion model (5)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Welcome to ____ (2021 Disney+ series starring Will Smith)"?

* What's a 6-letter word for "Rapper associated with the Sirius XM station Shade 45"?  

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Wordy Wednesday 453: Puzzle Buff's Nightmare

WORDY WEDNESDAY #450
PENT WORDS 90 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #451
TOUCHWORD 24 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #452
CODEWORDS 16 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #453
PUZZLE BUFF'S NIGHTMARE
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You wake up and find yourself trapped in a spacious 25-foot-by-40-foot room. You have no memory of how you got here. A voice booms over a loudspeaker: “I want to play a game. On the ground are buckets of black paint and gray paint. You will notice numbers on the north and west walls. I dare you – and your reflection in the one-way mirror, which I installed on the east wall to allow me to watch you be tortured by my puzzle without you seeing me – to use these numbers to paint the squares on the floor beneath you. Tell me the correct password, and I’ll set you free!”

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Lewinsky who became famous from a Bill Clinton scandal"?

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Wordy Wednesday 452: Codewords 16

WORDY WEDNESDAY #449
PL8S (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #450
PENT WORDS 90 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #451
TOUCHWORD 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #452
CODEWORDS 16
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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. . .

* A real nightmare of a puzzle!
* Patron Puzzle #92, which will be delivered on January 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Words Without Friends.

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Wordy Wednesday 450: Pent Words 90 & Wordy Wednesday 451: Touchword 24

WORDY WEDNESDAY #448
PATHFINDER 26 (answer)

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Richard Allen *
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #449
PL8S (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #450
PENT WORDS 90
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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 Sandwich-making necessity / Distributed playing cards

2 Young sheep / Maid’s feathery implement

3 Poses, as a question / Printed calico textile from India

4 Unit of scoring in golf / Dragon’s ____ (1983 arcade game)

5 Florid / Harp relative

6 Objects of which Insane Clown Posse famously asked, “How do they work?” / Comedian Costello

7 The Hindenburg, for one / “In the ____” (Linkin Park song)

8 Eau ____, WI / Anjou, for one

9 Emphasis / “Let My Love ____ the Door” (Pete Townshend song)

10 Simple children’s card game / Brand of glue that makes a poor substitute for hairspray, as described in Tessica Brown’s 2021 rap single “Ma Hair”

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Anheuser’s partner in beer

* Vibrato

* Computed 2+2, for example

* Central doctrine

* Apparatus on a police cruiser, ambulance, or fire truck

* Rodeo rope

* Change

* Freight

* Period of time spent at a task

* River horse, briefly

* Colorful parrot

* “____ of Tears” (John Denver song)

* Catch some Z’s

* Venue for a sporting contest

* ____ robin

* Porgy relative

* The Democratic Republic of the Congo, once

* Swedish currency unit

WORDY WEDNESDAY #451
TOUCHWORD 24
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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.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 David Bowie hit / Leg joint / Merlot, for example: 2 wds.

2 Arrived / Gained access / Far from narrow

3 Surname of the family from 7th Heaven / Rip / Slowly eat away at

4 20th-century conflict between the US and the USSR: 2 wds. / Trim away excess / ____-playing game

5 “____ the Line” (Toto song) / Weft’s counterpart / Wrestle

6 “____-Shaped Box” (Nirvana hit) / Joint on a door / “Terms and conditions may ____”

7 Become weak: 2 wds. / Harry Potter and the ____ Hallows

8 “Baptist Kid Singing ‘____?’ Mentally Prepares For Part Where He Has To Say The Word ‘Ass’” (December 2021 headline from Christian satirical news site The Babylon Bee): 4 wds.

9 Straw on a cottage roof, say / A grocery store chain / Indian women’s garments

10 Short-lived Bewitched spin-off / Makakilo mementos / La Scala solo

11 Something done regularly / Wheel’s shaft / Certain rhododendron

12 Sixty minutes / Sitcom with Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma / Shone brilliantly

13 Pumpkin, for one / Like some vacation time / Monitor ____

14 “I’m My Own ____” (Lonzo and Oscar song) / Like some confinement

15 Crooner Sinatra / Currency that can be denoted by the symbol $ / Prayer with a list of petitions

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!

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