Wordy Wednesday 553: Snake Crisscross 23

WORDY WEDNESDAY #550
PENT WORDS 110 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #551
CRYPTICROSTIC 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #552
FRAMELINKS 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23
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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
Poetic preposition
Mine find
____ doll
Health resort
4 LETTERS
There are three in a yard
Mulberry relatives
Rock music genre with dark, morbid lyrics
Foal’s mother
Lifestyles of the ____ and Famous
Peel, as that of an orange
Wander
Davenport or divan
Scrabble piece
5 LETTERS
First-class
“Anything Could Happen” singer Goulding
“Cat Scratch ____” (Ted Nugent song)
Have another go at
Wintertime wrap
Sneer
Identified as male or female, as an animal
6 LETTERS
The color silver, in heraldry
Building for horses
7 LETTERS
Far from harsh
Young tree
12 LETTERS
Something advantageous kept hidden until needed: 4 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Port of ____
Gold brick, for example
Metric unit of volume
New Zealand native
Any row, column, or box in a standard Sudoku grid, vis-à-vis the whole grid
____ ribs
6 LETTERS
City near the Rio Grande: 2 wds.
Name of the barber in The Barber of Seville
7 LETTERS
Small intestine infection which might be spread through contaminated water
Someone who isn’t Jewish
Lists of topics in the backs of books
8 LETTERS
Bugle call heard at sunrise
1983 film starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana
11 LETTERS
Piece of furniture on which a drink mug might be set: 2 wds.

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