WORDY WEDNESDAY #346
SECTION SIX 34 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #347
LOGICROSSWORD 7 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #348
LOGICROSSWORD 8
Blacken some cells in the grid below, and fill the rest with letters to form words left-to-right and top-to-bottom, crossword style. All words are Scrabble-legal (see scrabble.merriam.com); however, most of the words in the intended solution should be familiar.Arrange the letters in the shaded cells to get the final answer, a single word. (If any of the shaded cells are blackened, then the final answer will be less than 8 letters long.)
* The word FACETIOUS reading horizontally intersects the word RHYTHM reading vertically.
* The word ASHY reading horizontally intersects the words AAHS and THAE reading vertically.
* The word LOX intersects the word OXO.
* The word SYZYGY reads vertically.
* The words AY, HOOCH, OOH, and RYA appear somewhere.
* Row 3’s rightmost letter is the same as row 4’s leftmost letter.
* One of rows 1 through 7 contains a 4-letter word that ends in IKE.
* Column G contains a letter which appears only once in the grid.
* Two words intersect at A1 which end with the same letter; the horizontal word has an odd number of letters in it.
WORDY WEDNESDAY #349
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 11
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.
3 LETTERS
____ of God
Donkey relative
Consumed
Transparent sheet used in animation
Electric ____
Douglas ____
That woman
Concealed
Spoil
____ neutrality
Partner of Wynken and Blynken
Race participant, perhaps
2011 film about a macaw named Blu
Joey created by A. A. Milne
4 LETTERS
Some hats
The Hunchback of Notre ____
____ jockey
____ of plenty
An Egyptian goddess
Has a brief sleep
Flow slowly
University namesake Roberts
It may be made of coral
Certain trailer, briefly
5 LETTERS
Absinthe ingredient
Sorrowful poem
Boxer Liston
Asparagus stalk
"____ Be Startin' Somethin'" (Michael Jackson song)
____ of Warcraft
6 LETTERS
India’s “Jana Gana Mana”, for one
Onion relatives
Infuriate
One obsessed with minute details
7 LETTERS
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes author Maya
“____ Independence” (Björk song)
8 LETTERS
Forgave
Charm
9 LETTERS
Associated organization
Certain sweetener: 2 wds.
Four-winged insect
Electric Light ____ (rock band)
11 LETTERS
In dire need of laxative
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Part of a battery where oxidation occurs
Wind ____
The protagonist in the 2001 video game Devil May Cry
Errol of The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Item for a watchmaker
Confused struggle
____ & Martin's Laugh-In
Mountain in the book of Exodus
“The final frontier”, as per Captain Kirk
Italian scooter brand
6 LETTERS
The birthplace of St. Francis
Don portrayed by Jon Hamm in Mad Men
“Octopus’s ____” (The Beatles song)
January birthstone
Spin
Miami ____ (newspaper)
____ 5 (rock band)
A light purple
Flowery
Derides
Evening party
7 LETTERS
Atlanta’s NFL team
8 LETTERS
Alienate
10 LETTERS
Economic system that commies loathe
12 LETTERS
1950 book credited with introducing the word “nerd”: 5 wds.
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