Wordy Wednesday 476: Section Six 47 & Wordy Wednesday 477: Snake Crisscross 20

WORDY WEDNESDAY #474
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #475
PENT WORDS 95 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #476
SECTION SIX 47
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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 Religious leader

2 Equilateral quadrilateral

3 Snack throughout the day

4 Layered Italian pasta

5 ____ Roll (chocolate-flavored candy)

6 Brief report, briefly

Ring 2

* Series of images in a movie

* Austrian city in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born

* Like some losers

* Dance move

* Tenon’s partner

Ring 3

* Like a friend who’s been with you for ages

* English county in which the village of Cheddar is located

* Song from the deluxe edition of Taylor Swift’s album Speak Now

* Stare

Ring 4

* Forfeit

* It may be cautionary

* Beyond horrific

Ring 5

* Appear (to be)

* Word following “drill” or “staff”

Ring 6

* 47 ____ Down (2017 survival horror movie in which two sisters are trapped in an underwater shark cage)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #477
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 20
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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

“Little” amount of Brylcreem that will “do ya”

Make a mistake

Canopic ____

“____ to Joy”

Fluid in a plant

4 LETTERS

Surrounded by

Wild swine

Command heard during a pistol duel

Created

Paul Blart: ____ Cop

____ and greet

1/2, for a 30-degree angle

Mineral springs

Lyra’s brightest star

Walk through water

5 LETTERS

____-182 (rock band)

Senior

Part of the head that hair grows from

Pursue stealthily

6 LETTERS

Motionless: 2 wds.

Certain conifers

Calamity of Tiny Toon Adventures is one

Entertainer in a king’s court

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Cancel

7 LETTERS

____ Bureau of Investigation

8 LETTERS

Tarried

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Home

Sports stadium

Prize

Duck hunter’s item

Former shortstop Jeter

“So God created man in his own ____. . .” (Genesis 1:27)

South American pack animal

Not secret

Spaghetti or ravioli

6 LETTERS

Poisonous gas with an odor like garlic

Proclaimed loudly

Mathematician whose “wager” is an argument for believing in God

7 LETTERS

Weasel relatives which are popular as pets

Vague notion

8 LETTERS

Prestigious

9 LETTERS

Star of Morbius (2022): 2 wds.

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