Wordy Wednesday 593: Touchword 32

WORDY WEDNESDAY #591
CODEWORDS 27 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #592
CODEWORDS 28 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #593
TOUCHWORD 32
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In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, all answers read across, and every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent. (If you want more of these puzzles, the author offers the Touchword subscription service Outside the Fox Puzzles.) Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 8-letter word.
1 Speedy / Worst-____ scenario / Steal cattle
2 Starch used in some pudding / Proceed with great difficulty
3 Proscribed / Publisher Condé / Flock of geese
4 Square-muzzled primate / Eager / Once more
5 Ancient city associated with hanging gardens / Spanish painter Francisco / Conceited
6 Suggestive / Without company / Pertaining to birds
7 Procyon lotor, familiarly / Muppet who doesn’t use first-person pronouns / Container for liquid medicine
8 Famous site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech: 2 wds.
9 Singer Ronstadt / A citrus fruit / A great number
10 Peace of ____ / Divorcee’s payment / Abbey ____ (Beatles album)
11 Place where coins are made / Slender / Experiencing success after success: 3 wds.
12 Trench around a castle / Small, narrow portion / Ring-shaped coral island
13 Long-snouted tropical American mammal / Journalist Geraldo / “I ain’t the sharpest ____ in the shed” (lyric from “All Star” by Smash Mouth)
14 Center, as of an apple / Very angry / A type of firearm
15 Not common / “Darn it!” / Paul’s letter to the Galatians, for one

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