Wordy Wednesday 557: Anacrossword 34& Wordy Wednesday 558: Diagramless Crossword 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #555
PENT WORDS 111 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #556
SECTION SIX 55 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #557
ANACROSSWORD 34
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• Wailing female spirit in Irish folklore
• One who studies plants
• Popular seafood soup: 2 wds.
• Curb Your ____ (HBO series since 2000)
• Type of scanner or truck
• Israelite
• Enclave of South Africa
• Interlock
• Device for reheating leftovers, often
• Yale University’s home: 2 wds.
• Biblical ark builder
• Chief magistrate
• Emitted rays of light
• ____ Dogg (rapper)
• A decimeter, in relation to a meter
• Carry, as in a bag

WORDY WEDNESDAY #558
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 12
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This crossword has 62 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.

ACROSS
1 ____ Rich or Die Tryin’ (50 Cent’s debut album)
4 Renown
5 Natural ____
8 Quench
11 Venomous Egyptian snakes
13 ____ 1 Imports
14 Palo ____, California
17 First part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
21 Structures used in funeral rites
22 Berets and beanies
23 Car
24 Morays and congers
26 “It Can Happen” band
27 Male fox
28 20 quires
30 Emulate Duke Kahanamoku
33 A large deer
36 Way cool
38 Lawman Wyatt
40 Princess Celestia’s sister in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
42 Local ____ network
44 Untitled ____ Game (2019 video game)
47 Second part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
50 Anime ____ (Los Angeles anime convention)
51 One of Columbus’s three ships
52 Sandwich shop
53 Besmirched
55 Mystery novelist Stout
56 ____ Rabbit (Song of the South character)
57 Not good
DOWN
1 Computer company associated with black and white spotted boxes
2 United Arab ____
3 Brewed beverage
4 Country music star Hill
5 Surprised sound
6 Covered in burnt remains
7 Slash on a bowler’s scorecard
8 Health resort
9 Sunbathing outcome
10 Anna’s sister in Frozen
12 Scornful expression
15 Promote
16 Aware of
18 ____ of Man
19 Installment of a magazine
20 “____ Bless America”
25 Silverman of stand-up
29 Sauce whose name means “sailor” in Italian
31 A mode in Indian music
32 Palm leaf
33 2003 holiday film starring Will Ferrell
34 Fisherman’s need
35 Scottish Reformed theologian John
37 Longed for
39 Item near a fireplace, perhaps
41 What electric guitars plug into
43 Li’l ____ (comic character)
45 The bottom of the foot
46 Square ____ (Final Fantasy publisher)
48 Actor Selleck
49 Scottish boy
54 ____ and flow

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