WORDY WEDNESDAY #448
PATHFINDER 26 (answer)
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PATHFINDER 26 (answer)
Bonnie Veenschoten **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #449
PL8S (hint)
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PL8S (hint)
LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #450
PENT WORDS 90
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #450
PENT WORDS 90
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ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Sandwich-making necessity / Distributed playing cards
2 Young sheep / Maid’s feathery implement
3 Poses, as a question / Printed calico textile from India
4 Unit of scoring in golf / Dragon’s ____ (1983 arcade game)
5 Florid / Harp relative
6 Objects of which Insane Clown Posse famously asked, “How do they work?” / Comedian Costello
7 The Hindenburg, for one / “In the ____” (Linkin Park song)
8 Eau ____, WI / Anjou, for one
9 Emphasis / “Let My Love ____ the Door” (Pete Townshend song)
10 Simple children’s card game / Brand of glue that makes a poor substitute for hairspray, as described in Tessica Brown’s 2021 rap single “Ma Hair”
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Anheuser’s partner in beer
* Vibrato
* Computed 2+2, for example
* Central doctrine
* Apparatus on a police cruiser, ambulance, or fire truck
* Rodeo rope
* Change
* Freight
* Period of time spent at a task
* River horse, briefly
* Colorful parrot
* “____ of Tears” (John Denver song)
* Catch some Z’s
* Venue for a sporting contest
* ____ robin
* Porgy relative
* The Democratic Republic of the Congo, once
* Swedish currency unit
WORDY WEDNESDAY #451
TOUCHWORD 24
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TOUCHWORD 24
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In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, all answers read across, and every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent.
Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
1 David Bowie hit / Leg joint / Merlot, for example: 2 wds.
2 Arrived / Gained access / Far from narrow
3 Surname of the family from 7th Heaven / Rip / Slowly eat away at
4 20th-century conflict between the US and the USSR: 2 wds. / Trim away excess / ____-playing game
5 “____ the Line” (Toto song) / Weft’s counterpart / Wrestle
6 “____-Shaped Box” (Nirvana hit) / Joint on a door / “Terms and conditions may ____”
7 Become weak: 2 wds. / Harry Potter and the ____ Hallows
8 “Baptist Kid Singing ‘____?’ Mentally Prepares For Part Where He Has To Say The Word ‘Ass’” (December 2021 headline from Christian satirical news site The Babylon Bee): 4 wds.
9 Straw on a cottage roof, say / A grocery store chain / Indian women’s garments
10 Short-lived Bewitched spin-off / Makakilo mementos / La Scala solo
11 Something done regularly / Wheel’s shaft / Certain rhododendron
12 Sixty minutes / Sitcom with Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma / Shone brilliantly
13 Pumpkin, for one / Like some vacation time / Monitor ____
14 “I’m My Own ____” (Lonzo and Oscar song) / Like some confinement
15 Crooner Sinatra / Currency that can be denoted by the symbol $ / Prayer with a list of petitions
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