Wordy Wednesday 497: Hex Pathfinder 31

WORDY WEDNESDAY #495
PENT WORDS 99 (answer)

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Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #496
SECTION SIX 49 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #497
HEX PATHFINDER 31
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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.

1W 1986 hit for the band Wang Chung (23, 4 wds.)

2E Popular food fish (11, 2 wds.)

2SW Common skin cream ingredient (8, 2 wds.)

3NW Be overly sweet (4)

4SE References as a source (5)

5E Notches in an archer’s arrows (5)

6SW Offensive (5)

7SW In the ____ (nude) (4)

8NW Halite (8, 2 wds.)

9SE Small bit of burned coal (6)

10NW Texas city in which the first Church’s Chicken restaurant opened (10, 2 wds.)

11SW In advance (5)

12W Rip (4)

13SE Pay for, as a pedicure? (11, 3 wds.)

14E Leave out (4)

15SE ____ on 34th Street (7)

16NW It overhangs a roof (4)

17E Reverberate (4)

18NE Where a ship’s freight is kept (9, 2 wds.)

19NW Singer Ariana (6)

20E Ian Hunter song which was famously covered by the glam rock band Great White (18, 4 wds.)

21NE Certain salamander (4)

22W Offhand (4)

23E Pulling power (8)

24SW ____ training (5)

25SW Shaft on which a wheel rotates (4)

26SW Erudite (7)

27NW It’s often listed beneath the subtotal on a receipt (8, 2 wds.)

28NE Frigid (7, hyph.)

29SE Sober (7)

30SW Rail against (6)

31E Stand and ____ (1988 movie) (7)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Luigi’s ____ (Nintendo GameCube game)"?
* What's a 5-letter word for "Jeff who owns The Washington Post"?

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