Wordy Wednesday 407: This Puzzle Is 2 Short! & Wordy Wednesday 408: Snake Crisscross 16

WORDY WEDNESDAY #405
PENT WORDS 81 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #406
SECTION SIX 40 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #407
THIS PUZZLE IS 2 SHORT!
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That’s not an overstatement.

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #408
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 16
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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

Lovelace of Analytical Engine fame

Mongrel

Handgun, slangily

Pen part

Chum

____ judicata

4 LETTERS

“Money, Money, Money” band

Sore

Grows older

____ Domini

Prop in many a stoner film

Dry, as champagne

____ pickle

Relative of Cheems, in memes

It may be geodesic

Irradiate

____ Chop's Play-Along! (1992-1997 PBS series)

“____ and learn!”

Insect eating clothes, often

Grammy-winning pianist Peter

Comedian Foxx

Wise one

Religious splinter group

Nasal mucus, familiarly

Emulate Bethany Hamilton, say

Keep ____ on (watch carefully)

Diplomacy

“The Bear ____ Over the Mountain”

5 LETTERS

Dental hygiene item

Emerge from an egg

You might see one on a runway

Program for drug abusers, for short

Shoot from cover

Snake’s toxin

6 LETTERS

They’re often kept off the table

7 LETTERS

Theoretical physicist Feynman

Moved in small waves

10 LETTERS

Many church instruments: 2 wds.

11 LETTERS

Hanging light fixtures

Nervousness experienced by an actor, say: 2 wds.

16 LETTERS

Title of a 1971 hit for the Doors, or of drummer John Densmore’s 1991 biography: 4 wds.

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Luxury Honda subdivision

You might see one on a runway

More unusual

Common martini garnish

____ institution (prison)

Longstocking of kid lit

Uttered an oath

Like the diet of many animal rights activists

6 LETTERS

They can be passed

Citation maker

Cones with their tips cut off

Legal adverb

Charlton of Ben-Hur

Dull

Homily

On Photography essayist Susan

Make a roof from straw

7 LETTERS

Absolutely lacking in class

Brazilian dance

Addressee of the two epistles preceding Titus in the New Testament

Water wheel, for example

8 LETTERS

____ and Kings (1904 O. Henry novel whose title references Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter”)

20 LETTERS

Messiah composer: 3 wds.

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