Wordy Wednesday 629: Logicrossword 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #627
ANACROSSWORD 42 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #628
CODEWORDS 30 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #629
LOGICROSSWORD 13
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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). A list of all acceptable 2-letter words is provided as a solving aid; all of the words which are not on this list and not mentioned in the clues should be familiar to most solvers. 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.)

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
• No two black cells share an edge. All the white cells are connected through their edges. No word is repeated in the grid.
• Row 2 contains the word AWA, but does not contain more than one instance of any letter besides A.
• Row 3 contains a 9-letter word.
• Row 5 contains a B, the word FORUM (which intersects FE), and a V, in that order from left to right.
• Row 9 contains the word NU.
• The row containing the word YO is somewhere above the row containing the word UKE.
• Column A contains an 8-letter word.
• Column G does not contain more than one instance of any letter.
• One column contains exactly 3 black cells, all of which are in even-numbered rows, and has a D as its bottommost letter.
• The word KUNE intersects the word MUSICK.
• The word MEH intersects the words AGUELIKE and SHH.
• Two words of the same length intersect at their shared final letter R.
• A word beginning with L appears somewhere.

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