Wordy Wednesday 622: Logicrossword 11

WORDY WEDNESDAY #620
PENT WORDS 124 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #621
GET YOUR FLEET WET (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #622
LOGICROSSWORD 11
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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 solution should be familiar. Use the clues, logic, and your vocabulary to find the solution.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to get the final answer, a single Scrabble-legal word. (If any of the highlighted 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. No word is repeated in the grid.
• Row 1 does not contain the letter A or U.
• Row 3 contains the word NEE (which intersects EGER and NEUM).
• Row 8 contains the words BRR (whose last letter intersects ART) and OORIE (which intersects HIE).
• Row 9 contains exactly one black cell, but does not contain the letter D.
• Column A contains a 6-letter word beginning with W. Column A does not contain the letter D, G, or Y.
• Column E contains two 4-letter words, one of which is PRIG.
• Column F contains a 9-letter word, which is the only word longer than 6 letters in the grid.
• Column G contains the letter T.
• Column I contains a 6-letter word beginning with S.
• The word AI intersects the word GI.
• The word LULU intersects a 5-letter word beginning with N.
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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