WORDY WEDNESDAY #533
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 22 (answer)
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Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Derek Allen *
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #534
FRAMELINKS 17 (hint)
As of this writing, 12 people have solved
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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!
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 Group of theatrical performers /
Star Trek: The ____ Generation2 Gain alternative / Valley formed by a river
3 ____ Punk (electronic music duo) / “Modest” name of a Texas city
4 Light quantum / Three-____ sloth
5 Relaxation’s partner / One who dies for not renouncing a religion
6 Jamaican music genre / Mild, as punishment
7 Fool / Siberian spitz
8 Most adorable / It lists restaurant dishes
9 Actor Guinness / Truthful
10 “All My ____ Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” (Hank Williams Jr. song) / Bird’s roost
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Oman’s neighbor to the southwest
* “Three’s a ____”
* Musical sounds
* Character voiced by Chris Pratt in a 2023 movie
* Extremely excited
*
____ of Wells Fargo (1957-1962 TV western)
* Sanka offering, briefly
* Double ____ (jump rope game)
* Tom ____ (small folkloric character)
* Completely destroyed
* “Private ____” (B-52’s hit)
* Praise highly
* Monikers
* The Long Ranger’s companion
* Richter ____
* Fishy surname of baseball player Mike
* Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
* Destitute
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 11 Movie critic Roger
2 Group of fish
3 Place to skate or play hockey: 2 wds.
4 Beyond dreadful
5 Election loser: hyph.
6 Certain batting technique in baseball
Ring 2* Type of light that flashes
* Some male choir members
* Genesis tower site
* Weather-related term for someone who attracts new clients
* Scottish body of water
Ring 3* Muck
* Like a sponge
* “____, Can You Spare a Dime?”
* Grant temporary use of
Ring 4* Yellowjacket relative
* Bandit
*
The Executioner’s Song author Norman
Ring 5* Off the ground, as a plane
* One of a golf course’s 18
Ring 6* Car from a series of Disney movies which is emblazoned with the number 53
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* A puzzle that will have you feeling "route"-numbered!
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