Wordy Wednesday 460: Pent Words 92 & Wordy Wednesday 461: Pathfinder 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17 (answer)

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Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Peter Vickers *
Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92
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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the Across clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the Pentominoes clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):

1 Very thin / Partner of bagels

2 Widespread / Miss Prissy, for one

3 An entertainer’s business representative / Big name in cameras

4 ____ It to Beaver / Al who achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted live TV weather report in 2014

5 A ramp may be an alternative to them / Comfort

6 Some coverlets / Reverberate

7 Malfoy of the Harry Potter series / Young pedaler’s vehicle, briefly

8 Extension, as of a magazine subscription / The day before Christmas, for example

9 Very brief / City in northern Italy

10 Religious subgroup / Chip ‘n’ Dale: ____ Rangers

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* A noble gas

* ____ Game (Netflix series that debuted in 2021)

* Lets

* Build

* Domesticates

* Speed competitions

* Item on the end of a shoelace

* A synthetic material

* Japanese noodles

* Discarded fragment

* Event’s locale

* To no ____ (unsuccessfully)

* Creepy

* Shape on many a Christian’s necklace

* Remove, as pencil marks

* A purple flower

* Fail in a critical situation

* ____ You for Smoking (2005 movie)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28
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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 2022 Paramount+ series based on a video game franchise (4)

2 Coordinated outfit (8)

3 Distinctive badges (7)

4 When Worlds ____ (1951 sci-fi flick) (7)

4 Like some surgery (8)

5 Vegetable also called crisphead (7 7)

6 Herb of the celery family (4)

7 Dough (6)

8 Attracted (5)

9 Clash of ____ (mobile strategy game) (5)

9 Based in sound judgment (14)

10 Reset a scale to zero (4)

11 Loon relative (5)

12 Loon (4)

13 ____ Ant (cartoon superhero) (4)

14 Release from one’s grip (3 2 2)

15 Unspoken (5)

16 Be extremely angry (6)

17 Rock band that has announced the “Dogz of Oz World Tour” for 2022 (4)

18 Ahead (6)

19 Spotted African wildcat (6)

20 Shoestring (4)

21 He played Venus Flytrap in WKRP in Cincinnati (3 4)

22 ____ Times Dinner and Tournament (chain of dinner theaters with jousting performers) (8)

23 Bluebirds, for example (8)

24 Baseball catcher’s need (4)

25 Second-rate (like something bought for ten cents?) (4-5)

26 Novelist Salman (7)

27 Lawrence Welk instrumental hit based on a German pop song originally titled “Tivoli Melody” (8)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Journalist Holt"?

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Wordy Wednesday 459: Snake Crisscross 18

WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS

3 LETTERS

Extraterrestrial voiced by Paul Fusco

Manx, for example

Poetic preposition

Annie Get Your ____

Miner’s find

____ capita

Perch

2000 pounds

4 LETTERS

____, cool, and collected

Double Dare host Summers

“It’s ____ of your business!”

Play miniature golf, say

Ripped

5 LETTERS

Autumn bloomer

Put forth, as effort

Grant entry to: 2 wds.

“Dr.” of Hop on Pop fame

City near Phoenix, AZ

6 LETTERS

Find not guilty

Like some skiing

Pool players’ items

7 LETTERS

Tributes

2000 and 2001 NBA All-Star Wallace

Harry Potter and the Chamber of ____

Mosaic tile

8 LETTERS

Company that changed its name to Meta in 2021

10 LETTERS

Transfer point within an electrical grid

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Far from active

Verbally attacks, with “into”

Very

Become joined

Element with atomic number 54

6 LETTERS

The Ballad of ____ Scruggs (2018 Western)

Unilever beauty bar brand

Wheel for moving furniture

Character

Bullfighter

7 LETTERS

Uncomfortably small

A vehicle’s hazard or turn signal

Drug trial need

Good items to have on hand when watching a sad movie, say

8 LETTERS

Its panhandle borders the Texas panhandle

9 LETTERS

Pregnancy

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "____ Game (Netflix series that debuted in 2021)"?
* What's a 4-letter word for "2022 Paramount+ series based on a video game franchise"?

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Wordy Wednesday 458: Codewords 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #455
PENT WORDS 91 (answer)

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Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #456
SECTION SIX 45 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "The Ballad of ____ Scruggs (2018 Western)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 457: Crypticrostic 15

WORDY WEDNESDAY #454
PATHFINDER 27 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #455
PENT WORDS 91 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #456
SECTION SIX 45 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #457
CRYPTICROSTIC 15
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The answer is enumerated (5 10).

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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

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30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

__ __ __ __

59 60 61 62

Abercrombie’s partner is athletic champion __ __ __ __ __

                                           36 60 32 25 06

Diagnose lunatic in California city __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __

                                    08 50 48    42 34 57 22 61

Excellent Scottish lord has gaseous hydrocarbon __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                20 55 46 33 17 03

Lost sanity, tore writing paper __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                54 56 40 27 47 10 02 39 31 26

New Testament missionary possessing place of lodging has a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

    ringing sensation in the ears                          15 37 24 58 52 45 30 04

Outstanding poem read out loud __ __ __ __

                               44 11 18 53

President is scourge drinking liquor __ __ __ __ __ __

                                     43 38 12 19 14 41

Ruler of Ontario in third month __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                51 07 62 16 21 29 09

Talked about melancholy laggard __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                59 35 01 05 13 28 49 23

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* Patron Puzzle #93, which will be delivered on February 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Pathfinder.

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