Wordy Wednesday 587: Snake Crisscross 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #585
PENT WORDS 117 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #586
SECTION SIX 58 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #587
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 28
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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
“Four score and seven years ____. . .”
Consumed
The first woman in the book of Genesis
Legal matter
Witnessed
The Caspian, for one
Existed
4 LETTERS
Lack of difficulty
Bird’s home
Common wrapper for sushi
Shrek, for one
Rind
Wise
Sonic Superstars publisher
Moral infractions
Kingdom Hearts protagonist
Fuss: hyph.
5 LETTERS
Greek fabulist
Certain Mennonite
Use a divining rod
Intense fear
Moved with an easy gait
Without stop: 2 wds.
Be disobedient
Cattle roundup
Cut, as hair
Turtle feature
Couches
Author Harriet Beecher ____
____ army knife
6 LETTERS
Motorist
A city in southern Italy
Afternoon nap
Be a rat
7 LETTERS
Plunge, as into water
10 LETTERS
A medieval style of architecture
11 LETTERS
Colorfully-named fishes: 2 wds.
12 LETTERS
Site for Moai statues: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Saturated
Wear away
Waiting for ____ (Samuel Beckett play)
Common greeting
Up until now: 2 wds.
Bath item
Leaving Las ____ (1995 film)
6 LETTERS
NBC News anchor Mitchell
Hats worn by painters
Oust
Freely furnishes (with)
Real ____
Elbow ____
First-____ shooter
Journalist Geraldo
7 LETTERS
Period of human history characterized by the smelting of metal: 2 wds.
Hybrid garden flowers
8 LETTERS
Madly in love
Olympians in a pool
9 LETTERS
Easily disgusted
18 LETTERS
1993 romance film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan: 3 wds.

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