Wordy Wednesday 607: Logicrossword 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #606
SECTION SIX 60 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #607
LOGICROSSWORD 9
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Cathy Bowen. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!
Blacken some cells in the grid and fill the rest with letters to form words. Hereafter, a “word” refers to any string of two or more consecutive letters reading from left to right or top to bottom, bounded on both sides by black cells or the edge of the grid. All words are Scrabble-legal and appear in the NASPA Word List 2023 Edition (NWL2023); except for some 2-letter words (listed at the bottom of the page) and some obscure words which are mentioned explicitly in the clues, all of the words in the solutions should be familiar. Use the clues, logic, and your vocabulary to find the solution.

Arrange the letters in the shaded cells to get the final answer, a single Scrabble-legal word. (If any of the shaded cells are blackened, then the final answer will be less than 8 letters long.)

• No two black cells share an edge. All the white cells are connected through their edges.
• Row 1 contains exactly one black cell.
• Row 3 contains a 4-letter word.
• Row 7 contains the words AM and EYE.
• Row 8 contains a 5-letter word.
• Row 9 contains two 4-letter words, including PSST (which intersects AMP).
• Column A contains two 4-letter words, including SARI (which intersects ABA and ITS).
• Column E contains an 8-letter word whose second letter is A.
• Column F contains the word FEU.
• Column H contains exactly two black cells, with exactly one white cell between them.
• Column I contains exactly one black cell.
• The bottommost letter in column C is the same as the rightmost letter in row 5.
• One row or column contains the words DE and FA.
• The word MANEB reads across.
• The word ROOTSY reads down.
• The word UP reads somewhere.
AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO BY DA DE DO ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EW EX FA FE GI GO HA HE HI HM HO ID IF IN IS IT JO KA KI LA LI LO MA ME MI MM MO MU MY NA NE NO NU OD OE OF OH OI OK OM ON OP OR OS OW OX OY PA PE PI PO QI RE SH SI SO TA TE TI TO UH UM UN UP US UT WE WO XI XU YA YE YO ZA

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Out of ____ (1985 film set in colonial Kenya)"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 606: Section Six 60

WORDY WEDNESDAY #604
FRAMELINKS 24 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad *
Michael Lebowitz **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121 (hint)

As of this writing, 12 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #606
SECTION SIX 60
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This puzzle’s grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section’s outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the starred spaces to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word.

 
Ring 1
1 Give, as blood or plasma
2 Abandon
3 Harshly denouncing
4 Remington ____ (1982-1987 detective drama series)
5 ____ diving
6 Dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs who never speaks

Ring 2
• Juvenile
• Nate who founded FiveThirtyEight
• Keto and paleo, for two
• A cellulosic textile fiber
• Mark numbers on a bingo card, perhaps

Ring 3
• Delicate
• July 24, 2024, for one
• Like your shoes after a trip to the beach, perhaps
• ____ or nothing

Ring 4
• Common Christmas tree decoration
• Able to float
• “All joking ____. . .”

Ring 5
• Locate
• “____ (Not Constantinople)” (They Might Be Giants song)

Ring 6
• Studio 60 on the ____ Strip (2006-2007 comedy-drama series created by Aaron Sorkin)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Logicrossword!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 605: Pent Words 121

WORDY WEDNESDAY #603
SUDOKUROSTIC 2 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #604
FRAMELINKS 24 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Daren Crevan. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!

In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the Across clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the Pentominoes clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 On the ____ of the moment / Witch doctor
2 Tricks of the ____ / Masked swordsman of fiction
3 Funeral sighting / Infrequently
4 Enjoys a novel / Language from which the word “corgi” is derived
5 A fungus produces it / Place to get your hair done
6 A trigonometric function / Landlord
7 Paint the ____ red / Funeral sighting
8 Item frequently eaten by a tree, much to Charlie Brown’s chagrin / Mutilate
9 Penny ____ (webcomic about video gaming) / Flat watercraft
10 Timon of ____ / Cupid’s Greek counterpart
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Reside
• Meerkat ____ (2005-2008 nature documentary series)
• Bay or cove
• Express scorn
• Partitions of a building’s interior
• Unit of gold purity
• Word after “cocktail” or “wedding”
• “Buy one, get one free” events
• Wander
• Maid of ____
• Handbag
• Ford model that explodes from a light rear-end collision in the 1984 comedy film Top Secret!
• Rectal injection
• Meet the ____ (Sunday morning NBC show)
• Tightly packed
• Cherish
• Puffy, rounded hairstyles
• Wrath

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs who never speaks"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 604: Framelinks 24

WORDY WEDNESDAY #602
SUDOKUROSTIC (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #603
SUDOKUROSTIC 2 (hint)

As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #604
FRAMELINKS 24
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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 8-letter word.

A A A A A A A   B B B   C C C C C C C C C   D    E E E E E E E E   H H   I I I   L L L L   M M M M
N N N N   O O O   P   R R R R   S S S S S S   T T T T T   W W   Y Y Y   Z

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Ford model that explodes from a light rear-end collision in the 1984 comedy film Top Secret!"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 7: FINAL RESULTS!

FINAL SCORES

Here is a table of all of the participants and their scores (click to enlarge). Kudos to the 12 perfectionists (red) who scored 500 points and to the 3 completionists (orange) who solved every puzzle!

Participants are sorted by score (high to low), and then alphabetically (A to Z). The total number of points scored is 8400. Thus, the final money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas is $84.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank of West Central Texas will actually receive $336.00. The total amount of money raised by Kevin's Puzzles at Home for various food banks now stands at $2,613.00.

Head below the break for the actual solutions! If you're looking for more easy-ish puzzles in this style, remember to visit the actual Kevin's website every single Monday, or come back to this site in September when I plan to launch Season 8!

Wordy Wednesday 603: Sudokurostic 2

WORDY WEDNESDAY #601
FOXGERYPTICS 19 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
M. Sean Molley **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tower **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #602
SUDOKUROSTIC (hint)

As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #603
SUDOKUROSTIC 2
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Solve the clues by writing one letter per blank; the clues are alphabetized by the answers as a solving aid. Transfer the letters to the corresponding spaces and fill in the remaining spaces to form a valid sudoku, but with 9 different letters instead of numbers. (Each row, column, and box must contain those 9 letters in some order.) Treat the finished grid as a word search and look for a 6-letter word, which is this puzzle’s final answer.

Mobile operating system developed by Google __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                            B9 D1 D6 H9 I1 I6 A4
Not the same __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
             B1 A8 I2 F9 A2 D2 H1 B4 F4
One giving money to a cause __ __ __ __ __
                            I9 H4 F8 F2 A6
Realm in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe __ __ __ __ __ __
                                               A9 H6 B8 H2 F1 I8
Mammal known for holding hands while sleeping __ __ __ __ __
                                              B6 A1 D9 D8 I4

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Framelinks!
* Patron Puzzle #122, which will be delivered on July 8, 2024, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Super Pent Words.

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 7: Final hint and final week!

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 7"): click here

Episode 1 (Five Easy Pieces): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 19 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 0 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Meteorological Mystery): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 18 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 3 (App-y Days Are Here Again): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 4 (Texas Fever): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

 Episode 5 (Picture This): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 6 (Yet Another Baseball Baffler): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 15 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 7 (I’ve “Add” It Up to Here!): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 17 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 0 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 8 (Meta) (A Musical Meta): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 13 people solved this within the first week for 150 points apiece.

   

The total number of points scored is 8100. Thus, the current money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas is $81.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank of West Central Texas will actually receive $324.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, or the meta for 75 points, possibly with the aid of the hints. This week is your final chance to score points and earn money for the food bank!
 
Stay tuned next week for all of the solutions and the final results. Good luck!