Wordy Wednesday 698: Mini Touchword 11

WORDY WEDNESDAY #696
TOUCHWORD 35 (answer)
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Cathy Bowen **
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Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #697
ANACROSSWORD 50 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #698
MINI TOUCHWORD 11
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In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, all answers read across, and every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent. (If you want more of these puzzles, the author offers the Touchword subscription service Outside the Fox Puzzles.) Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word. 
1 Move like a duck / Titular killer whale in a 1993 film
2 Children’s game played by snapping small discs
3 Appropriate to the occasion / Mocks on social media, with “on”
4 Thick volume / Take unrestrained pleasure
5 Eminent ____ / Protrusion or swelling
6 Hoop ____ (1994 basketball film) / Organ eaten by a zombie
7 ____ of the crop / Ligament injury
8 Movie theater / Viral disease against which young children are often vaccinated
9 Longed (for) / The twin brother of Artemis
10 Salsa made from chopped tomato, onion, and peppers: 3 wds.
11 Texas city on the Brazos / ____ Blonde (2001 Reese Witherspoon film)

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