Wordy Wednesday 554: Snake Crisscross 24

WORDY WEDNESDAY #551
CRYPTICROSTIC 19 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #552
FRAMELINKS 19 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #554
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 24
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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
Electric guitarist’s need
Brian of Roxy Music
Important period of time
“To ____ is human. . .”
Arden of Our Miss Brooks
On the ____ (running from the law)
Prepare, as a dinner table
Goody ____-shoes
4 LETTERS
Downwind
Thing not to put before the horse
State of prolonged unconsciousness
Novelist Ferber
Adventures of Huckleberry ____
Period preceding Easter
Marlin’s son, in a Pixar movie
City in which the Iditarod ends
Violent anger
Strap for controlling a horse
Annoy
Certain clay mineral
“Will this be on the ____?”
5 LETTERS
Sheath on a shoelace
Very thin pancake
Snowy ____ (bird)
Barkin of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Group of warships
Go against the ____
Tacitly suggest
Consumer advocate Ralph
Frighten
Mexican foodstuffs served in crunchy shells
Polynesian carvings made of wood or stone
Walks at a moderate speed
6 LETTERS
Votes into office
Yeast, for example
Bother
7 LETTERS
Tower of a mosque
Snake
8 LETTERS
Very brief joke: hyph.
10 LETTERS
Role for Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014): 2 wds.
11 LETTERS
Power derived in environmentally friendly ways: 2 wds.
17 LETTERS
The Quebec Nordiques, since 1995: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
^
Bald ____ (bird)
Large spiral-horned antelope
Tiny, like Santa’s helpers
“____ Sandman” (Metallica song)
Dormant
Some small hawks
The last Greek letter
Irish playwright Wilde
The 86th element
National Organization for ____ (feminist group)
6 LETTERS
“____, vegetable, or mineral?”
Most recent
Magician’s interjection
Rue
Just
Superficial facade
7 LETTERS
“____ Bogey March”
Carmen who played Lani McKenzie on Baywatch
Military weapon sometimes called a pineapple
Mountain in the state of Washington
Unable to reproduce
8 LETTERS
Jeep pickup truck named after a Native American tribe
Light fixture that might be favored by a hippie: 2 wds.
9 LETTERS
Stuff that wards off insects
Going on a risky undertaking

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Moon who married Rob Zombie in 2002"?

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