Wordy Wednesday 529: Hex Pathfinder 33

WORDY WEDNESDAY #527
FOXGERYPTICS 17 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #528
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 3 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #529
HEX PATHFINDER 33
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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.

1E Victoria’s Secret purchase (8)
2NE War of 1812 battle site (10, 2 wds.)
3NE Catch sight of (4)
4NW Skyscraper also known as Freedom Tower (19, 4 wds.)
4SW Fierce attack (9)
5NW Movement influenced by Cubism (7, 2 wds.)
6NE “____ All Angels” (Train song) (7)
7SE Garment worn by women in India (4)
8SE Sound at a comedy club (8)
9W Hidden feature on a DVD, for one (9, 2 wds.)
10SE 1997 film starring Pierce Brosnan as volcanologist Harry Dalton (10, 2 wds.)
11SW Talk pompously (5)
12E Eschatological event (10)
13NE Small opening in your skin (4)
14SE Rodent-related term for an endless strenuous pursuit (7, 2 wds.)
15SW A refugee seeks this (6)
16SE Physical strength (6)
17E Take back, as a belief (6)
18NE The white parts of the eyes (7)
19SW Schweppes product (9, 2 wds.)
20E Prohibition-era establishment (9)
21SE Ate or drank (8)
22W Is rueful (7)
23NW Pertaining to canines (6)
24NE Excite (6)
25NW Musical with the song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (8)
26W Word following “smoke” or “touch” (6)
26SE Scornful facial expression (5)
27SW Cadillac SUV model (8)
28NW Students at a police academy (6)
29NE Securely close, as an envelope (4)

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