Wordy Wednesday 535: Pent Words 107 & Wordy Wednesday 536: Section Six 53

WORDY WEDNESDAY #533
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 22 (answer)

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Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Derek Allen *
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #534
FRAMELINKS 17 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #535
PENT WORDS 107
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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the Across clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the Pentominoes clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Group of theatrical performers / Star Trek: The ____ Generation
2 Gain alternative / Valley formed by a river
3 ____ Punk (electronic music duo) / “Modest” name of a Texas city
4 Light quantum / Three-____ sloth
5 Relaxation’s partner / One who dies for not renouncing a religion
6 Jamaican music genre / Mild, as punishment
7 Fool / Siberian spitz
8 Most adorable / It lists restaurant dishes
9 Actor Guinness / Truthful
10 “All My ____ Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” (Hank Williams Jr. song) / Bird’s roost
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Oman’s neighbor to the southwest
* “Three’s a ____”
* Musical sounds
* Character voiced by Chris Pratt in a 2023 movie
* Extremely excited
* ____ of Wells Fargo (1957-1962 TV western)
* Sanka offering, briefly
* Double ____ (jump rope game)
* Tom ____ (small folkloric character)
* Completely destroyed
* “Private ____” (B-52’s hit)
* Praise highly
* Monikers
* The Long Ranger’s companion
* Richter ____
* Fishy surname of baseball player Mike
* Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
* Destitute

WORDY WEDNESDAY #536
SECTION SIX 53
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This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Movie critic Roger
2 Group of fish
3 Place to skate or play hockey: 2 wds.
4 Beyond dreadful
5 Election loser: hyph.
6 Certain batting technique in baseball

Ring 2
* Type of light that flashes
* Some male choir members
* Genesis tower site
* Weather-related term for someone who attracts new clients
* Scottish body of water

Ring 3
* Muck
* Like a sponge
* “____, Can You Spare a Dime?”
* Grant temporary use of

Ring 4
* Yellowjacket relative
* Bandit
* The Executioner’s Song author Norman

Ring 5
* Off the ground, as a plane
* One of a golf course’s 18

Ring 6
* Car from a series of Disney movies which is emblazoned with the number 53
 

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A puzzle that will have you feeling "route"-numbered!

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Wordy Wednesday 534: Framelinks 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #532
CODEWORDS 23 (answer)

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Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #533
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 22 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #534
FRAMELINKS 17
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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

A A A A A A A A A A A A   B B B   C C C C   D   E E E E E E E   F   H H   I I I I   K K   M M M M   N
O O O O O O O   P P P P   R R   S S S S S   T T T T T T T T   U   W   Y   Z

 

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Character voiced by Chris Pratt in a 2023 movie"?
* What's a 6-letter word for "Car from a series of Disney movies which is emblazoned with the number 53"?

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Wordy Wednesday 533: Snake Crisscross 22

WORDY WEDNESDAY #530
PENT WORDS 106 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
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Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Nan **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Derek Allen **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #531
FRAMELINKS 16 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Stephen Potter **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Derek Allen **
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #532
CODEWORDS 23 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #533
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 22
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also needs to be divided into a number of areas which follow a single clear path, called “snakes”. Each of these snakes contains an entry reading from one end of the path to the other; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Snake Words”. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes and which entry corresponds to each snake.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Morning moisture
“Able was I ____. . .”
Not well
Certain limb
Commit a moral infraction
4 LETTERS
Hearing organs
Maleficent
A type of pitcher
Fete
Heap, as of dirty laundry
Horse-riding need
5 LETTERS
Noted Italian poet
Made a mistake
Furniture namesake Allen
Papas of The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Gillan who played Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy
Part of a flower
“No ____, No Cry” (Bob Marley hit)
6 LETTERS
Trainee at a workplace
Some stockings
President Reagan’s first name
Completely emotionless
1980’s term for an affluent city dweller
7 LETTERS
Attachment to a mountain climber’s shoe
Jiggly dessert
Showing signs of foot pain, in a way
8 LETTERS
Musically-inclined phantom in the Monster High franchise
12 LETTERS
Philadelphia-based life insurance company: 2 wds.

SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
____ the Dragon (1973 martial arts film)
Coffee shop purchase
“What am I, chopped ____?”
Florida senator Rubio
Did a lawn chore
Extend, as a subscription
6 LETTERS
Hooded jacket
Become enlarged
South Dakota’s capital
Pay: 2 wds.
Moves a houseplant, perhaps
More diminutive
7 LETTERS
Item for receiving a radio signal
C₂H₅OH, familiarly
Felonious
Encroach, as on a right
Tel Aviv resident
8 LETTERS
Ordinary: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Framelinks!

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Wordy Wednesday 532: Codewords 23

WORDY WEDNESDAY #529
HEX PATHFINDER 33 (answer)

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Derek Allen **
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Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #530
PENT WORDS 106 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #531
FRAMELINKS 16 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #532
CODEWORDS 23
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Gillan who played Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy?"
* Patron Puzzle #107, which will be delivered on April 8, 2023, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a pair of Codewords.

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