Wordy Wednesday 261: Pathfinder 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #258
CODEWORDS 8 (answer)
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Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #259
IN-GENIE-OUS (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #260
PENT WORDS 52 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #261
PATHFINDER 12
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 Pertaining to current events, perhaps (7)
2 Athlete in a 2018 Nike ad campaign (5 10)
3 Shamu, for one (4)
4 A type of beetle (6)
5 Tentacled sea creatures (6)
6 Military academy student (5)
7 Noisy fight (6)
8 The Legend of Zelda: A ____ to the Past (4)
9 Small restaurant (6)
10 Not dead (5)
11 A teenager going out might have one (6)
11 Picasso emulator, perhaps (6)
12 ____ oil (6)
13 Old-timey jukebox (11)
14 Submarine’s weapon (7)
15 Defeat thoroughly (7)
16 Said again (8)
17 Lyft alternative (4)
18 Pursue (5)
19 Mr. Musk (4)
20 Clinton’s 1996 opponent (4)
21 ____ duck (6)
22 One of the Greek Muses (5)
23 Four pecks (6)
24 Suave (6)
25 Large crustacean (4 4)
26 Buy (8)
27 Like a successful mountain climber vis-à-vis a mountain (4)
28 Give heroin to a drug addict, say (6)
29 A grocery store checker scans it (3 4)

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* What's a 6-letter word for "Zero of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"?

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