Wordy Wednesday 428: Hex Pathfinder 26 & Wordy Wednesday 429: Crypticrostic 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #426
SECTION SIX 42 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #427
PATHFINDER 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #428
HEX PATHFINDER 26
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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.

1NW From 2003 through 2016, he passed for a total of 34,183 yards, the most of any quarterback in Dallas Cowboys history (8, 2 wds.)

2NW 2007 hack and slash game with Travis Touchdown (12, 3 wds.)

3NW Small restaurant (6)

4SW Old Testament queen (6)

5SW “____ Tonight” (1979 hit for the Eagles) (9)

6NE ____ speaker (7)

7SW Blubber (4)

8SW Follow (10)

9NW Georges Braque, for one (6)

10NW Courage (5)

11E Royal seat (6)

12E CNN commentator Cooper (8)

13W Giannis Antetokounmpo’s team (14, 2 wds.)

14NW Board game originally released in France as La Conquête du Monde (“The Conquest of the World”) (4)

15W Mischievous one (7)

16NE March of ____ (organization that works for the health of mothers and babies) (5)

17SE Device on a submarine (5)

18NW “Dancing on the Ceiling” singer (12, 2 wds.)

19SW Deep cut in flesh (4)

19SW Pertaining to the stomach (7)

20NE 3-2-1 ____ (1980-1992 PBS science series) (7)

20SE Name shared by the southernmost city in Illinois and an African capital city (5)

21SE Like an autonomous car (10)

22E Doomed from the start (13, 3 wds.)

23SW ____ of Dreams (1993 Billy Joel album) (5)

24SW Attempts (5)

25NE Envision, as a concept (6)

25W Like some coffee (7)

26SW Wily trick (4)

27NW Japanese art of growing small potted trees (6)

27E “God ____ Our Homeland Ghana” (Ghana’s national anthem) (5)

28E ____ circuit (5)

29NE Electronic dance music genre originating from Chicago (5)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #429
CRYPTICROSTIC 13
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The answer is enumerated (5-3).

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Big name in home security beginning to bulwark skating arenas __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                              24 19 14 04 39 30

Bit of coffee blend is not strong __ __ __ __ __ __ 

                                  07 22 26 01 13 37

Demon loses one shield __ __ __ __ 

                       27 35 23 17

Endlessly fake leader in coronavirus information! __ __ __ __ __

                                                  18 03 29 15 10

Hazy comedian Rocca in the air above us __ __ __ __ __ 

                                        12 32 20 34 40

Reportedly damages car rental company __ __ __ __ __

                                      09 25 38 08 21

Wander back around central Beijing – monumental __ __ __ __ __

                                                28 33 36 06 02

Watch actor Danson around noon __ __ __ __

                               31 16 11 05

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