WORDY WEDNESDAY #697
ANACROSSWORD 50 (answer)
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ANACROSSWORD 50 (answer)
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins **
Sam Levitin **
Steve Levy **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #698
MINI TOUCHWORD 11 (hint)
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MINI TOUCHWORD 11 (hint)
WORDY WEDNESDAY #699
MINI TOUCHWORD 12
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Russ Kale. 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!
MINI TOUCHWORD 12
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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.
2 Function in the imaginary part of a complex number’s polar form / Wil who portrayed Wesley Crusher
3 Ill-fated Ford subcompact / Rhyme’s partner
4 Scheme / “Oh, Pretty Woman” singer Roy
5 “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf ____” / “The Poisonwood ____” (1998 Barbara Kingsolver novel)
6 Vehicle that can be driven with or without a roof
7 Ice cream container, perhaps / The twin brother of Apollo
8 Lacking branching paths / Matches that determine the finalists, briefly
9 “Jakob the ____” (1999 Robin Williams film) / States positively
10 Fragment of glass / Begins
11 Cuts into narrow strips / Spud
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* Um, I guess I need to write this puzzle. Oops!
* Patron Puzzle #144, which will be delivered on May 8, 2026, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Letravex.
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