Wordy Wednesday 498: Hex Pathfinder 32 & Wordy Wednesday 499: Anawordsearch 4

WORDY WEDNESDAY #496
SECTION SIX 49 (answer)
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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
renee hoppe **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #497
HEX PATHFINDER 21 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #498
HEX PATHFINDER 32
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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 Certain Methodist (8)
2W Thin surface layer (6)
3NE Rodent found in a waste conduit (8, 2 wds.)
4E Haphazard (7)
5SW Website for buying handmade goods (4)
6SE Submarine, for example (8)
7W In style (4)
8E Something prohibited (5)
9SE Put an end to, as a law (9)
10E Mediate (9)
11NW Walk like a duck (6)
11NW Hit song for country musician Freddy Fender (25, 5 wds.)
12SE Guest of ____ (5)
13W Multistoried residence (9)
14SW Optimistic (4)
14SW ____ numerals (5)
15E Rhyme’s partner (6)
16E Certain diacritical mark (5)
17NW “Too ____ cooks. . .” (4)
18SE Old Testament book following Judges (4)
19SE Flexible (7)
20E City in New York with a monument to basketball’s shot clock (8)
21E Current beneath water’s surface (8)
22SE 2014 video game in which players can control gods (5)
23SW Some tire shop purchases (4)
24SW Simpletons (11)
25NE ____ of the Titans (1981 film which was remade in 2010) (5)
26NE Calculator predecessors (5)
27W Luigi’s ____ (Nintendo GameCube game) (7)
28SW 1960 movie character who said, “We all go a little mad sometimes” (11, 2 wds.)
29SE Tears (4)
30W Regale (5)
31E Potent potables (7)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #499
ANAWORDSEARCH 4
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Daren Bischel. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!
(A sequel to WW67, WW169, and WW402.)
The leftover letters in the word search below spell a clue to the final answer.
1989 Don Bluth film whose title suggests the afterlife destination of the
    10 entities, each of 5 of more letters, hidden in the word search
    above: 5 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 
                  A5 G5 A1 B9 D8 F5 I4 D9 E7 B2 F9 B3 D5 I3 A6 I5 F4 
Frog or salamander, for one __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                            E5 E8 C9 G2 C4 C5 H6 A4 I6
Conduct oneself properly __ __ __ __ __ __
                         G4 A2 G3 F8 C6 H8
Jeff who owns The Washington Post __ __ __ __ __
                                  E9 H5 C7 E6 G1
Ancient Celtic priest __ __ __ __ __
                      F6 I9 H3 I8 A8
Comfy upholstered seat: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 
                               B8 E1 G8 C2 H2 B5 F3 A7 C1 
Something that brings bad luck __ __ __ __
                               I7 C3 H7 G9
One of three that Angel Alvarado solved in 4:31.01 while juggling them to
    set a new world record in 2022: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 
                                           A9 F1 I2 D1 D2 E2 A3 G6 F7 H4 
Surgeon’s stitch __ __ __ __ __ __
                 I1 F2 E4 E3 D7 H9
Arnold Palmer’s pegs __ __ __ __
                     B4 B1 B6 G7
Vile and wicked __ __ __ __ __ __
                D6 D4 D3 B7 H1 C8

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Boston ____ (2004-2008 ABC series)"?

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