Wordy Wednesday 474: Hex Pathfinder 29

WORDY WEDNESDAY #471
CODEWORDS 18 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Damon French **
Kevin Orfield *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #472
HEX PATHFINDER 28 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Damon French **
Kevin Orfield **
Mary Maynard **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #473
CODEWORDS 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #474
HEX PATHFINDER 29
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. 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, a 7-letter word.

1E Dish of cheese-topped tortilla chips (6)

2W Like some gases (5)

3E Stronghold (7)

4SE Gymnastic feat (10)

5W Garbage receptacle (8, 2 wds.)

6SW Legally bar (5)

7E Title character in a series of children’s books that all end, “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more” (8)

8SE French painter Pierre-Auguste ____ (6)

9SW Sport played with a flying disc (8)

10SE Fissure (4)

11NW Wandering (7)

12SW ____ monster (venomous lizard) (4)

13E Jungle 2 Jungle star (8, 2 wds.)

14SE Constellation with Polaris (9, 2 wds.)

15NE Billy Joel song that begins, “Call me a joker, call me a fool” (13, 4 wds.)

16E “Anti-”, grammatically (6)

17NW The tendency to favor evidence for one’s preconceptions over evidence against them (16, 2 wds.)

18NW River famously crossed by Julius Caesar (7)

19SW Some ankle bones (4)

20SE ____ Masters (2022 series where teams compete to set up chain reactions of falling tiles) (6)

21W 2004 title role for Jude Law (5)

22NW Two-speaker sound system (6)

23E Common allergen (6)

24W ____-of-service attack (6)

24SE Direct the course of, as a vehicle (5)

25E Car modified for speed and acceleration (6, 2 wds.)

26SW Rosie the ____ (1944 film) (7)

27NE Charles, Harry, and William, for three (7)

27NE Uncorrupted (8)

28NE Composer whose works are played in a piano competition held in Warsaw, Poland (6)

29E For a New Hampshire or Vermont governor, it’s two years long (4)

30NE Where military personnel eat (8, 2 wds.)

31E Certain onion (7)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Heard who played Mera in Aquaman (2018)"?

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