Wordy Wednesday 252: Snake Crisscross 5

WORDY WEDNESDAY #249

FRAMELINKS 9 (answer)

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Jack Bross **
Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #250

PENT WORDS 50 (answer)

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Jack Bross **
Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
Jay McConnell **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #251

ANACROSSWORD 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #252

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 5

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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
Carney of Harry and Tonto (1974)
Possesses
Bill who appeared on The Big Bang Theory in 2013 and 2018
Split ____ soup
Hot tub with a whirlpool
____ Lanka
Number of frames in a game of bowling
4 LETTERS
____ cheap
Lazy
Be lazy
Organ with which we smell
Symbol on a music score indicating silence
5 LETTERS
Behave in an unruly manner: 2 wds.
Improvised: 2 wds.
Make amends
One in a military academy
Item holding a piece of jewelry together
The Planets composer Gustav
It secretes bile
Body opening
Total
6 LETTERS
Excite
Fats ____
Romp
Biblical hunter whose name can also mean “idiot”
Foul odor
7 LETTERS
Salon employee
8 LETTERS
Band worn around the wrist
It may be found roasting on an open fire
9 LETTERS
Field for Copernicus or Galileo
Very thin line in fabric
11 LETTERS
Route for 19th century American settlers that’s the subject of a computer game: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
2018 headline maker Kavanaugh
On a weather map, it may be cold or warm
Excessively hurried
Cretan king of myth
Mature
Publicity ____
6 LETTERS
Absolutely loves
Enumerated
Chef Jamie
Absolutely rotten
Recurring Metroid boss or film director Scott
Small upright piano
Some fasteners
Red vegetable
7 LETTERS
Teetotaler’s bane
Be revelrous
____ and cream
Craft store item with holes in the shape of a design
8 LETTERS
Stilton who resides in New Mouse City in children’s books
Mode of transportation at Disneyland
Air

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