Wordy Wednesday 487: Pathfinder 30 & Wordy Wednesday 488: Feed the Foxes

WORDY WEDNESDAY #485
PENT WORDS 97 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #486
SECTION SIX 48 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #487
PATHFINDER 30
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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 Planters (10)

2 Ones who are easily spooked (7-4)

3 Lawyer Vasquez who gained fame during the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial (7)

4 Members of Generation Y (11)

5 Killed, as a dragon (5)

6 Dock (4)

7 Certain chess piece (4)

7 Vincent van Gogh, for one (7)

8 Arachnid that hunts its prey instead of spinning a web (4 6)

9 Borrower’s payment (8)

10 They might have driver’s licenses in them (7)

11 Waterspout (9)

12 Autoinjector trademark (6)

13 Harris who played Max Troy in the film Dragnet (1954) (5)

14 Item in a fortune-teller’s pack (5 4)

15 Kneecap (7)

16 Injury created by abrasion (6)

17 Unceasing (7)

18 Use a spittoon (11)

19 Madrid resident (8)

20 A noble gas (5)

21 Not abed (5)

22 Portions of a circle’s circumference (4)

23 Passionate (6)

24 “____ Love Out of Nothing at All” (Air Supply song) (6)

24 Pertaining to the sea (6)

25 Certain chess piece (4)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #488
FEED THE FOXES
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These foxes thought that they’d find food in this grid, but now they’re frustrated! Arrange the lettered pieces, without rotating or reflecting them, to fill the empty grid spaces, and then move each fox the number of cells indicated to help it find what it wants to eat. Foxes may only move horizontally or vertically (not diagonally), but their paths may turn. No fox will cross the path of another fox or retrace its own path. Not all cells will be visited by foxes.

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