Wordy Wednesday 257: Snake Crisscross 7

WORDY WEDNESDAY #254

PATHFINDER 11 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #255

PENT WORDS 51 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #256

SECTION SIX 25 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #257

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 7

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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
____ King Cole
Basketball hoop feature
____ King Cole
Make a knot
Male fox
4 LETTERS
Blended tea drink
The Hunchback of Notre ____
College student’s living quarters, briefly
Lack of difficulty
____ Girl (2014 thriller)
Aslan, for one
Stallion’s mate
Philosopher John Stuart ____
Nothing, in Spanish
“Go away!”
____ chef
Pack down tightly with a series of blows
Powdered drink mix trademark
Chinese finger ____
5 LETTERS
Occur as a result
____ square (ancestor of the sudoku puzzle)
Place to get your hair done
6 LETTERS
Tropical lizards
Name of Bell Labs’ Plan 9 Bunny
Finger-wiping cloth at a table
7 LETTERS
Appetites
Highly developed skill
“These Arms of Mine” singer Otis
9 LETTERS
Othello’s wife
Symbol seen in a subtraction problem: 2 wds.
“After the Gold Rush” singer: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Home ____ (1990 comedy)
Cries from a flock
It can be measured in degrees or radians
Regions
Australian canine
TV show : episode :: magazine : ____
Somewhat, informally
Four-seated automobile
Jewish Passover service
“All ____ Up” (Elvis song)
Boozehound
A city in Florida
6 LETTERS
Really showering with affection, with “on”
Numbskull
7 LETTERS
____ Dollar Listing New York
Celebrated
8 LETTERS
Estrange
9 LETTERS
Hermitage
11 LETTERS
Seat for lying down in: 2 wds.

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