Wordy Wednesday 649: Logicrossword 15

WORDY WEDNESDAY #647
MINI TOUCHWORD 5 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #648
KEVIN'S UNFINISHED PUZZLES AT HOME (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #649
LOGICROSSWORD 15
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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 1 contains a 9-letter word.
• Row 2 contains the word IODID. Besides IODID, exactly one other 5-letter word reads across.
• Row 4 contains exactly two black cells.
• Row 8 contains the word EDENTATES.
• Column C contains the word EGO.
• Column D contains a word that contains the substring EG.
• Column E contains a 5-letter word.
• Column F contains exactly one instance of the letter J.
• Column G contains the words BATTU (which intersects TEA) and ENG (which intersects IGLU).
• Column I contains a 5-letter word that contains the letter M, but not the letter H.
• The words EN and EW read across.
• The word NOLO reads down.
• The words AMIDO, EMO, and REES appear somewhere.
• A 4-letter word that starts with B and ends with one of the first 9 letters of the alphabet appears somewhere.
• A 4-letter word that contains the letters F and R appears somewhere.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Name of the female protagonist in the Twilight books"?

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