Wordy Wednesday 708: Mini Touchword 14

WORDY WEDNESDAY #706
TOUCHWORD 36 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #707
LOGICROSSWORD 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #708
MINI TOUCHWORD 14
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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 “Blasphemous ____ App Claims To Have Update For King James Version” (headline from satirical Christian news outlet The Babylon Bee) / Baseball shoes
2 A fowl’s edible organ / Grants temporary use of
3 Basketball player Kevin who was nicknamed “The Big Ticket” / Porcine comment
4 Serious / Skating place
5 Happens as a result / Ancestral group
6 “Life Hack: Wife Texting You Too Much? Reply ‘____’ And She’s Legally Required To Stop” (headline from satirical Christian news outlet The Babylon Bee)
7 British thermal ____ / Since
8 Twist in pain / Lauren who developed the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
9 Intense anger / Exertion of power
10 Meteorologist’s concern / Golfer’s shout
11 Historic Memphis street associated with blues / Bring into existence

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