Wordy Wednesday 462: Pathfinder 29

WORDY WEDNESDAY #459
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 18 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #460
PENT WORDS 92 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #461
PATHFINDER 28 (hint)

As of this writing, 12 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. 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 #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"?
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