Wordy Wednesday 607: Logicrossword 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121 (answer)

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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)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #607
LOGICROSSWORD 9
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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

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

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