Wordy Wednesday 414: Hex Pathfinder 25

WORDY WEDNESDAY #411
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 6 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Pavel Curtis **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Brian Cross **
Jason Boomer**
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #412
ANACROSSWORD 25 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #413
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 11 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #414
HEX PATHFINDER 25
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. 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, a 7-letter word.

1SW River deposit (5)

2SE Tie-breaking football period (8)

3W Legendary Indiana Pacer with the retired jersey number 31 (12, 2 wds.)

4SW Separating grain from chaff, say (7)

5SE One overly involved in their kid’s life (16, 2 wds.)

6SE Thrilling sensation (6)

7SW Byron White’s 1993 replacement (17, 3 wds.)

8W Hairlike structures on mammalian cells (5)

9SW “Full speed ____!” (5)

10NE Family of marine animals, including Hawaii’s humuhumunukunukuapuaa, whose name suggests a part of a gun (11)

11SE Kevin who portrayed Hercules (5)

12SW Chooses to be a part of something (6, 2 wds.)

13NW One of two in a Christmas carol (10)

14SE “____, Goodbye” (The Beatles song) (5)

15SW Belch (4)

16E Male sibs (4)

17NW “____ to the Chief” (4)

18SE Lightly burn (5)

19SW Excessive growth (5)

20W Reluctant (5)

21SW Women's fashion magazine since 1939 (7)

22W Minor dent (4)

23E Bite Squad competitor (7)

24E Car rental company founded in Orlando (not San Antonio, perhaps surprisingly) (5)

25SE 2005 movie starring Christian Bale (12, 2 wds.)

26W It might be prescribed for lowering a patient’s blood pressure (11, hyph.)

27W Reproof (8)

27SE ____ Forever After (2010 film) (5)

28E “In a ____ of speaking. . .” (6)

29E Structures housing a warship’s guns (7)

30SE One providing betting advice (7)

31W Helmet material, perhaps (4)

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Jasiri of the Disney Junior series The Lion Guard is one"?

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