Wordy Wednesday 533: Snake Crisscross 22

WORDY WEDNESDAY #530
PENT WORDS 106 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #531
FRAMELINKS 16 (answer)

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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.

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