Wordy Wednesday 503: Diagramless Crossword 9 & Wordy Wednesday 504: Anacrossword 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #501
TOUCHWORD 26 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #502
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 21 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #503
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 9
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This crossword has 50 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.
ACROSS
1 Attack a fly
5 Long vehicle, for short
6 Traveling musician’s stagehand
8 Some robotics motors
9 Word before “sandwich” or “soda”
13 First part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
17 “____ House” (Madness song)
18 Indian beverage: 2 wds.
19 292.5 deg. on a compass
20 Equipment for a draft animal
21 Wall Street Journal article subj.
24 Gumshoe
25 What’s left over
29 ____ and haw
32 Highly educated
33 Wrath
34 Second part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
39 Have a bias
40 Eddies
41 Silverstone of Clueless
42 Common piece of office furniture
43 Dutch painter van Veen
DOWN
1 12 Years a ____ (2013 film)
2 Black ____ (spider)
3 Certain Mennonite
4 Foot digit
6 1954 thriller in which James Stewart plays nosy photojournalist L.B. Jefferies: 2 wds.
7 Food scrap
8 Astonish
9 South American rodent
10 Tardy
11 Operates
12 Bleats like a sheep
13 Scatter, as seed
14 “____ bin ein Berliner”
15 Informal talk, as by a fireside
16 Tortoise’s rival
22 “King of ____” (hit song for The Police)
23 Aware of
25 Confederate soldiers, briefly
26 Estrada of CHiPs
27 Erato, for one
28 Commandments number
30 Historic time periods
31 Ryan of Sleepless in Seattle
35 Cay
36 Oliver ____ (Dickens novel)
37 2007 Michael Moore documentary which criticizes the American health care industry
38 Thu. follower
41 Fuss

WORDY WEDNESDAY #504
ANACROSSWORD 26
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97

• Unit of land area
• Saunter
• Possible ender of a marriage
• Thunder
____ of the Corn (Stephen King novel)
Star Wars: The ____ Wars (animated series)
• Harvesting machine
• Secant’s reciprocal
• Southern accent
• CBS series starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes
• Colossal
• Certain camera crew member: 2 wds.
• Woodwind that shares its name with a Dragon Ball character
• Professional boxing match
• String of Catholic prayer beads
• Lady Gaga hit
• November birthstone

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