Wordy Wednesday 466: Section Six 46 & Wordy Wednesday 467: Snake Crisscross 19

WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS (answer)

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Cole Kendall **
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Karen Spencer **
M. Sean Molley **
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Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Jason Boomer **
Jason Taniguchi **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz *
Ryan Faley **
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[anonymous] *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #466
SECTION SIX 46
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This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1

1 Turn away

2 Commute to work together, perhaps

3 Exorcist’s target

4 Search for water with a rod

5 New ____, Louisiana

6 Acquire

Ring 2

* Benedict Arnold’s crime

* “That makes my blood ____!”

* ____ Genesis Evangelion (anime series)

* Malcolm in the ____ (2000-2006 sitcom)

* A hard dinnerware material

Ring 3

* Some single-reed woodwinds

* Like some chicken wings: hyph.

* The ____, the Witch and the Wardrobe

* Small replica of a train, for example

Ring 4

* It may be Petrarchan or Shakespearean

* Texas city which was the capital of the former Republic of the Rio Grande

* Mouse once voiced by Marcellite Garner

Ring 5

* “There’s a ____ in My Beer” (Hank Williams song)

* Donald X. Vaccarino game that invented the deck-building genre

Ring 6

* Samantha who played Maria Gonzales in Code 46 (2003), or a big name in salt

WORDY WEDNESDAY #467
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 19
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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

Give pain to

Emulate an archaeologist

Janitor’s item

____ talk

4 LETTERS

Jurassic World: ____ Cretaceous (Netflix series)

Spanish painter Salvador

Heron relative

Seaweed

The Daily ____ (London newspaper)

“Skip a ____” (Henson Cargill song)

Recipe instruction, possibly

Drive down, as wet concrete

Cereal pursued by a rabbit

5 LETTERS

____ Management (2003 film with Adam Sandler)

Gorge

Colgate alternative

Ryan who played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies

____ punt (canine term for a football tactic also called a quick kick)

Harold of Ghostbusters

6 LETTERS

Like some Middle-earth languages

Like an accounting year

Become more lively: 2 wds.

7 LETTERS

Understood

Gin/vermouth cocktail

8 LETTERS

Patrick of SpongeBob SquarePants, for one

Advocates

9 LETTERS

Highly theatrical and emotional work

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Generous

Easily broken

Bicycle part

Kicks back

____ as a whip

6 LETTERS

Small restaurant

Make different

“____ Line” (Elton John/Stevie Wonder song)

Rectangular array in mathematics

Can ____ (kitchen device)

Lower part of the human trunk

Certain citrus fruit

Former Supreme Court justice Antonin

8 LETTERS

Coffee-flavored Italian dessert

9 LETTERS

Holiday marked by a New Orleans parade: 2 wds.

10 LETTERS

The MVP of Super Bowl LVI: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Texas city named after a Kansas city"?

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Word Wednesday 465: Pent Words 93

WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
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Karen Spencer **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Lebowitz **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #465
PENT WORDS 93
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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 “The wheels on the ____ go round and round. . .” / ____ John, M.D. (1979-1986 medical drama)

2 Handles for sword fighters / The Grapes of ____

3 Play it by ____ / Due ____

4 Be in accord / The heaviest inert gas

5 Wrack and ____ (complete destruction) / Series, as of consecutive wins

6 Dedicate / Some beers

7 Three-____ sloth / Two-speaker sound system

8 ____-teacher conference / Better Call ____ (AMC legal drama)

9 Relatives of the extinct quagga / ____ butter

10 Dora Winifred Read’s older brother / “We’re an American ____” (Grand Funk Railroad song)

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* November birthstone

* “I ____ It Through the Grapevine”

* ____ sprawl

* “I ____ Mi Amor” (Color Me Badd song)

* “Camptown ____”

* “Let’s get down to ____ tacks”

* What’s the ____ That Could Happen? (2001 film)

* Reasons to go to an auto repair shop, perhaps

* Spaghetti ____

* South Korea’s capital

* “Quit while you’re ____”

* Fail to be in accord

* The third planet from the sun

* Shopping ____ (1996-1997 game show)

* Observes

* The House That Jack ____ (2018 horror film)

* City where the Art Gallery of Western Australia is located

* Make changes to

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Samantha who played Maria Gonzales in Code 46 (2003), or a big name in salt"?
* What's a 5-letter word for "____ punt (canine term for a football tactic also called a quick kick)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 464: Word Puzzle in Three Colors

WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29 (answer)

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

WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #464
WORD PUZZLE IN THREE COLORS
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Citizens pay them to governments
State whose motto is “Friendship”
Word puzzle on Classic Concentration

Crash ____ Kart (video game)
Have a second attempt at
Metric volume unit’s American spelling

“All of Me” singer Sinatra
Apple, banana, cherry, or pear
Conscript (someone) for military service

Canada’s flag depicts its leaf
Digging tool or card suit
I ____ of Jeannie (sitcom)

Footballers who play in Chicago
Horned African mammal, in brief
Jaws is this marine predator

Answer to the first trio
Answer to the second trio
Answer to the third trio
Answer to the fourth trio
Answer to the fifth trio

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "The House That Jack ____ (2018 horror film)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 463: DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92 (answer)

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Patrick Jordan *
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #463
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 12
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22 23 24    25 26 27    28 29 30    31 32 33    34 35 36    37 38 39    40 41 42

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Police ____ (1984 comedy) __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                          33 26 42 50 28 02 76

Temporarily care for a child __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                             16 04 48 73 71 65 21

Compromise: 3 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                   18 40 35 03 27 52 22 61 07 06 72

Enter a torpid state during winter, say __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                        78 43 56 69 32 41 01 15 38

Tidy up __ __ __ __ __ __

        12 34 13 64 25 05

One who believes that existence is senseless __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                             24 29 62 17 57 20 51 44

One inclined to make groan-inducing plays on      __ __ __ __ __ __ __

   words like the one in this puzzle’s final clue 09 75 30 39 77 63 55

Gunfight __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

         68 37 23 74 58 53 70 11

“Here is the church, here is the ____. . .” __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                            45 67 31 36 08 46 60

2019 HBO series based on a 1986 DC Comics series __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                 54 10 14 19 59 66 47 49

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A word puzzle in three colors!

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Wordy Wednesday 462: Pathfinder 29

WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (answer)

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Michael Lebowitz **
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Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #462
PATHFINDER 29
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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 Saw (9)

1 Seasonal Paul McCartney hit released in 1979 (9 13)

2 Ravine (5)

2 Traditional Venetian boat (7)

3 ____-contained (4)

4 Haunt (8)

5 Some firearms (6)

6 doTERRA offering (9 3)

7 Film director Tarantino (7)

8 Become a substitute (for) (4 2)

9 Place to buy a sandwich, briefly (4)

10 ____ doctor (4)

11 Sheen, as of metal (6)

12 Subject of canonization (5)

13 The ____ Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001-2007 cartoon) (4)

14 Pertaining to the sense of smell (9)

15 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men ____ No Tales (2017 movie) (4)

16 Journalist Holt (6)

17 Consumed (5)

18 Remains from a shipwreck, perhaps (7)

19 Docket (8)

20 Designs inked on skin (7)

21 Cover crop of genus Lolium (8)

22 2014 James Lapine play based on Moss Hart’s autobiography (3 3)

23 Hairstyle that’s longer at the back than at the top and sides (6)

23 Brawn (6)

24 Provided relief (7)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 8-letter word for "2019 HBO series based on a 1986 DC Comics series"?
* Patron Puzzle #94, which will be delivered on March 8, 2022, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a pair of Codewords.

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