WORDY WEDNESDAY #352
PATHFINDER 21 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #353
HEX PATHFINDER 22 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #354
TOUCHWORD 17
In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent.
Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
1 2020 video game whose release on the same day as Animal Crossing: New Horizons inspired many pieces of crossover fan art: 2 wds. / Smart
2 College campus building, briefly / Hit song for The Who / Machine for shaping wood, perhaps
3 Clear a hard drive to prepare it to store data, say / Inflammation of the liver
4 ____ 21 (fashion retailer) / Squabble, as between lovers / Part of an eye
5 Kind of poetry that often mimics natural speech patterns: 2 wds. / ____ projection
6 Piece of armor for the shin / On the rocks / Tremendous bargain
7 Palestinian city / With The, NBC singing competition / Loathe
8 Pavilion in a park, perhaps / Slyly disparaging / Direction from Fort Worth to Dallas
9 Rational / ____ and Herzegovina / “I ____ to Do That” (Paul Brandt song)
10 Common playground sighting / Defraud / “We're an American ____” (Grand Funk Railroad song)
11 Rocker Jimi / Sheath for a sword
12 “____, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” / Remington product / “All ____!” (train conductor’s shout)
13 ____ and home / ____ market / Animal also known as a hog-nosed coon
14 Smell / ____ & Louise (1991 film) / Prickly pears and such
15 Car dashboard component / One of the Minor Prophets
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