Wordy Wednesday 448: Pathfinder 27

WORDY WEDNESDAY #446
SECTION SIX 44 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Stephen Potter *
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #447
RUFFTRAX (hint)

As of this writing, 7 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's a hint, and here's a text transcript of the original puzzle. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #448
PATHFINDER 26
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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 Main course (6)

2 Affection felt by an adolescent for a crush, say (5 4)

2 Marionette operator (9)

3 Wastewater (6)

4 Magician’s interjection (6)

5 Stephen King novel about a telekinetic girl (6)

5 Staple of a vulture’s diet (7)

6 Chinese flower (3 4)

7 Putin’s predecessor (7)

8 Astonishes (4)

9 Snake (7)

10 Came up (5)

11 1968-2012 ABC soap opera (3 4 2 4)

12 Fast food sandwich with tartar sauce (5-1-4)

13 Bean curd (4)

14 Be a storyteller (7)

15 Carve wood, perhaps (7)

15 Marked by meticulous attention to detail (5-5)

16 Without warranty (2 2)

17 Robin Hood, for one (6)

18 Part of a window (4)

19 Shred cheese, for example (5)

20 “Half Breed” singer (4)

21 Asian relative of the raccoon (3 5)

22 What the subject of a defamatory newspaper article might sue for (5)

23 Performer of reckless stunts (9)

24 “Ocean Eyes” singer Billie (6)

25 Some whales (7)

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