Wordy Wednesday 269: Hex Pathfinder 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #267
CODEWORDS 9 (answer)
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Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #268
HEX PATHFINDER 16 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #269
HEX PATHFINDER 17
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. 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, a 7-letter word.
1SE Finding ____ (2003 film) (4)
2SW Blitzed (10)
3NW Sweet liquid that bees seek (6)
4NE Bird in a Poe work (5)
5W “I Like to ____ It” (song featured in the film Madagascar) (4)
6E ____ machine (calculator relative) (6)
6SW Great-great-great-great-great-grandparent, say (8)
7W Harmless (6)
8NE Place to buy lottery tickets, often (16, 2 wds.)
9SW America's Funniest Home ____ (6)
10NW Alex Van Halen's brother (5)
11SE Merrymaking (7)
12NW Mythical lamp occupant (5)
12E Chain ____ (4)
13SE Irate (5)
14SW Take all of one’s attention (7)
14SW “All your base are belong to us”, for example (7)
15NW 2012 drama directed by Henry Alex Rubin (10)
16NE Two socks or two shoes, say (4)
16SE Hoarder of sorts (7, 2 wds.)
17SW Faley who’d appreciate it if you visit redhead64puzzles.blogspot.com, or actor Gosling (4)
18NW Witty (6)
18SW Influence (5)
19NE Military academy student (5)
20E Operatic solo (4)
21NW Place where birds are kept (6)
22W Anderson who once hosted Family Feud (5)
23W Ankle bones (4)
24NE Word meaning “expert” with Yiddish origins (5)
25NW Silly (5)
26NE Camel feature (4)
27E Coca-Cola alternative (5)
28SW Iron Man’s real name (9, 2 wds.)
29NE ____ alcohol syndrome (5)
30W Attack with a machine gun from a low-flying aircraft (6)
31SW Condensed summary (8)
32E Tennis-playing namesake of a Richmond athletic center (10, 2 wds.)

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Breastplate associated with Zeus and Athena"?

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