WORDY WEDNESDAY #361
CRYPTICROSTIC 9 (answer)
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Stephen Potter **
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John Bulten **
Kevin Orfield **
Leo Termin **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #362
ANACROSSWORD 21 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #363
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 13
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.
CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Golfer Ernie with a winemaking business
Parking ____
Knightly title
Golfer’s peg
Overly
4 LETTERS
Reference line in a Cartesian plane, say
Richard of American Gigolo (1980)
Shoestring
Company based in Billund, Denmark
____ & Stitch (2002 film)
____ and easy
Dozes (off)
Delivered
Took to court
Certain arithmetic results
5 LETTERS
Part of a butcher’s uniform
Cartographical book
Items for holding up pants
Pyramid alternative
Greece’s largest island
Consumed
Precise
Odor
The Sixth ____ (1999 film)
Separator between words, often
“Every Rose Has Its ____” (Poison hit)
6 LETTERS
Certain marbles
Sharp, as an observer
The hound in The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Rubbed away, as a pencil mistake
Clinging mollusk
Cries loudly
7 LETTERS
Heavy weight placed to improve a ship’s control
9 LETTERS
Gadgetry
14 LETTERS
Professional user of essential oils
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Benefactor
Identifying tag
Moderate shade of purple
Lesson of a fable
Gotten up
____ Magnolias (1989 film)
Nappy leather
They may be hailed
Member of a Rwandan ethnic group
6 LETTERS
Climb
Yellow jacket relative
Jamaican music genre
Title for a Japanese teacher
Straight man
Brand once associated with the slogan, “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star”
7 LETTERS
Location in Arthurian legend
Dutch Renaissance humanist
Frozen masses: 2 wds.
Incentive
Attack verbally: 2 wds.
16 LETTERS
1996 PlayStation game whose protagonist is a musically inclined anthropomorphic dog: 3 wds.
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