Wordy Wednesday 273: Hex Pathfinder 18

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FOXGERYPTICS 12 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #272

FOXGERYPTICS 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #273

HEX PATHFINDER 18

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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.

1W Good ____ (show hosted by Alton Brown) (4)
2SW Place to buy magazines and such (9)
3SE Be numerous (6)
4NE Perspire (5)
5NW You might pour salt on one (5)
6SE Print on the other side of a piece of paper, for example (5)
7SW 1994 film about a seal (5)
8E “In the ____ of the Mountain King” (4)
9NE Suited (8)
10SE Certain rodent (4)
11W Thick slice (4)
12NW Devastate (9)
13NW Fertile (4)
14NE Place to keep money, perhaps (6)
15E Mr. Nanny (1993) star (9, 2 wds.)
15SW Baloney (7)
16E Romeo’s rival in Romeo and Juliet (6)
17NE Extremely angry (5)
18W Look fixedly (5)
18SE Mollusk remnant (8)
19W Forbidden ____ (cooperative board game that’s a sequel to Forbidden Island) (6)
20NW Diminish the strength of, as a mixture (6)
20SW Student’s furniture (4)
21NE Toto’s tether (5)
22SE “Total ____ of the Heart” (7)
23SE Emperor ____ (7)
24NW Meet the ____ (2008 Seltzer and Friedberg movie) (8)
25NE Ten plus ten plus ten plus ten (5)
26SW Language this puzzle is in (7)
27NE Door’s joint (5)
28E Rock and ____ (4)
29SW TruTV series whose host’s surname is Conover (19, 3 wds.)
30NE Motörhead song (11, 3 wds.)
30SE Certain Nissan (6)
31E An Austrian state (5)
32E Completely cut off, as ties (5)

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