Wordy Wednesday 611: Sudokurostic 4

WORDY WEDNESDAY #609
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 9 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #610
PENT WORDS 122 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #611
SUDOKUROSTIC 4
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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.

“... not be judged by the color of their   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   skin, but by the content of their ____” C9 F1 D4 I3 A6 G3 I7 E7 G9
Not at all bald __ __ __ __ __
                C5 E3 A1 F6 I9
Greek letter synonymous with a small amount __ __ __ __
                                            E5 A7 G1 G7
The Big Bang ____ (2007-2019 sitcom) __ __ __ __ __ __
                                     D9 A3 C3 D1 A4 G5
With “!”, interjectional name of a search engine __ __ __ __ __
                                                 C7 C1 I4 F9 I6

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Logicrossword!

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Wordy Wednesday 610: Pent Words 122

WORDY WEDNESDAY #608
SUDOKUROSTIC 3 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #609
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #610
PENT WORDS 122
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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 NES game in which Bill Rizer and Lance Bean fight terrorists / Wrecking ____ (NES game in which Mario and Luigi destroy a building site)
2 Company that owns Old Navy / “Gimme ____” (Rolling Stones song)
3 Ratchet’s robot partner / “____ Man” (Village People song)
4 Awaken / Slide in a chair, say
5 ____ claims court / Come up
6 Ambulance noisemaker / Title role for Tyler Perry
7 Unyielding / Once and for ____
8 Sunrise direction / “____ Man” (Elton John song)
9 Baking ____ / Deviation from a course
10 Large shrimp / Titleholder
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• South American ruminant
• Murder, She ____ (1984-1996 series starring Angela Lansbury)
• “Those who can, do; those who can’t, ____”
• Budweiser alternative
• English liberal philosopher John
• Ancient Greek fabulist
• Wicker fish basket
• Perfect
• Tricks of the ____
• Wooden item on a pirate ship
• Common Christian symbol
• Sea devil
• Cuban drum
• Site of a sporting event
• ____ Together (2004-2007 Comedy Central series)
• Contents of a can
• Vagrant
• Calliope and Erato, for two

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "The Big Bang ____ (2007-2019 sitcom)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 509: Fill-In Crossword 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #607
LOGICROSSWORD 9 (answer)

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Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz *
Russ Kale **
Randy Rogers **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #608
SUDOKUROSTIC 3 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #609
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 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!
The answers in the crossword below are clued alphabetically by length; you must figure out where they belong. The unclued shaded entries will spell the final answer, a song title.

3 LETTERS
Selma (2014) director DuVernay
What a beaver builds
____ and flow
President Eisenhower, familiarly
Billy the ____
“____ them eat cake”
Spoil
Essential ____
Un metal precioso
Portion of butter
____ in the sky
Charlotte of The Facts of Life
Stimpy’s partner
Not happy

4 LETTERS
Cook in an oven
Lincoln who portrayed Tarzan
Give off
College brotherhood, in brief
Fabulist
Annual theater award
Quarry
Cattle herding instrument
Heroic Icelandic narrative
Prong of a fork

5 LETTERS
A yellowish brown
Turns over
One celestial body’s path around another
Pet ____
Wander
Native American tent

6 LETTERS
Eighteen-wheeler: 2 wds.
Lizard with a large dewlap
Car radio button
CBS Evening News anchor Dan
Blab
Oolong vessel

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Murder, She ____ (1984-1996 series starring Angela Lansbury)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 608: Sudokurostic 3

WORDY WEDNESDAY #606
SECTION SIX 60 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #607
LOGICROSSWORD 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #608
SUDOKUROSTIC 3
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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.

Out of ____ (1985 film set in colonial Kenya) __ __ __ __ __ __
                                              G4 B7 D8 B4 F8 D2
Certainty about the truth of something __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                       B5 D7 C4 E3 G6 B6 B3 F2 E2 H5
Enlightened __ __ __ __ __ __ __
            E4 C2 E7 H4 C8 C6 H7
Foul stench __ __ __ __
            E6 E8 G8 H6
AM/FM device __ __ __ __ __
             G2 F7 F3 D3 H3

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 4-letter word for "Lincoln who portrayed Tarzan"?
* Patron Puzzle #123, which will be delivered on August 8, 2024, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Framelinks.

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