WORDY WEDNESDAY #458
CODEWORDS 17 (answer)
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CODEWORDS 17 (answer)
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cindy Heisler **
Karen Spencer **
Tyler Hinman **
Damon French **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Peter Vickers *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (hint)
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SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (hint)
LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92
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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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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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