Wordy Wednesday 574: Snake Crisscross 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #572
FOXGERYPTICS 18 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #573
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 6 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #574
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 26
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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, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Kindergarten ____ (1990 film)
Conger ____
The day before Christmas, for example
Soviet soccer great Yashin
Droop
“Fortunate ____” (Creedence Clearwater Revival song)
4 LETTERS
Our ____ (short film series also known as The Little Rascals)
Shrek is one
Pasta sauce brand
Wise
Settee
Waterproof covering
5 LETTERS
When a Stranger ____ (2006 horror film)
Utter confusion
Loon relative
Very big
The stomach, for one
Pascal of The Mandalorian
Fumed
The Day the Earth ____ Still (2008 sci-fi film)
6 LETTERS
Esoteric
Wood sold at Lowe’s
Gratify
The Merchant of ____
7 LETTERS
Resign
Toy made from spare scraps of cloth: 2 wds.
Beverage from which Patrick Curtis’s nickname in The Outsiders is derived: 2 wds.
Type of paint made from egg yolk
8 LETTERS
Tavern
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Spiral-shelled mollusk
Got by
Up till now: 2 wds.
Lords of ____ (board game designed by James Ernest and Mike Selinker)
6 LETTERS
Australian currency unit
Datum on a medicine label
Ocean’s ____ (2001 film)
1998 Winter Olympics city
7 LETTERS
Smash Mouth song that was used in Shrek: 2 wds.
Like ____ lightning (very fast)
The tip of the ____
Professional with a wrench, possibly
8 LETTERS
Certain figure of speech
9 LETTERS
Sweetener made from a bamboo-like plant: 2 wds.
Melodramatic daytime television serial: 2 wds.
10 LETTERS
It might be operated via a remote control in your car: 2 wds.

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