Wordy Wednesday 442: Pathfinder 25

WORDY WEDNESDAY #439
PUT A RING ON IT (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #440
PENT WORDS 88 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #441
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #442
PATHFINDER 25
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. 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, an 8-letter word.

1 City whose initials form the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state it’s in (4 10)

2 Chest of drawers (6)

3 Certain clergy member (6)

3 Curves defined by a directrix and a focus (9)

4 Laying away (7)

5 Fixed charges (4)

6 Certain meteorological device (4 5)

7 Downright easy (10)

8 American Revolutionary War battle site (6 4)

9 Angelic figure (6)

10 Cruel (6)

11 A Visit from St. ____ (8)

12 Boring tool (5)

13 1994 SNES game where players race to assemble jigsaw puzzles (6)

14 My ____ Academia (4)

14 Item at the top of a car seat (8)

15 What a computer might display when it fails to complete an operation (5 7)

16 For fear that (4)

17 One of two music options in the classic NES puzzle game Dr. Mario, the other being “Fever” (5)

17 Arizona has a “Grand” one (6)

18 Go back to a previous state (6)

18 Tiny slip of paper accompanying a purchase, often (7)

19 “____ Breath You Take” (The Police hit) (5)

20 Denmark’s only neighbor (7)

21 Certain literary composition (5)

22 “Sorry, that’s impossible for me!” (2 3 2)

23 Honesty (6)

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