Wordy Wednesday 277: Pathfinder 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #275

PENT WORDS 55 (answer)

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Bryce Herdt *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #276

SECTION SIX 27 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #277

PATHFINER 13

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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 The Who’s Townshend (4)
2 “Magic Carpet Ride” band (11)
3 Western Florida city (5)
4 Grow weary (4)
5 Texas ____ University (4)
6 “That’s Too ____!” (pricing game from The Price is Right) (4)
7 Sorceress in Homer's Odyssey (5)
8 Dress (6)
9 Piloted, as a plane (5)
10 Roman goddess of the hunt (5)
11 They’re often served with tea (8)
12 Gruesome (5)
13 A white sparkling wine (9)
14 Shelter facing a beach, perhaps (6)
14 Rick and Morty, for one (7)
15 Becloud (4)
15 James portrayed by Sean Connery (4)
16 Antiquated (7)
17 Item needed for playing cornhole (7)
18 Far from common (4)
18 Reddening cosmetic (5)
19 End-to-end measurement (6)
19 Baseball player who is sometimes the namesake of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (3 6)
20 Have a meal at a restaurant, say (3 3)
21 Promote (4)
22 Instance of unfair treatment (3 4)
23 ____ Council (Survivor elimination ceremony) (6)
24 You might top it with lox (5)
25 Former late night host Jay (4)
26 American History X actor (6 6)
27 Esau traded his for stew (10)

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* What's a 6-letter word for "Fils-Aimé’s successor at Nintendo of America"?
* Patron Puzzle #58, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is not written yet. I'd better get to work!

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