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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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. . .

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