Wordy Wednesday 723: Mini Touchword 18

WORDY WEDNESDAY #721
ANAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE 4 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #722
LETRAVEX 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #723
MINI TOUCHWORD 18
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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 Doctors Without ____ / Friar from the Robin Hood tales
2 Place to grow plants / Lumberjack’s remnant
3 Article of clothing / Rope-making fiber
4 Arnold ____ (iced tea/lemonade mixture) / Act of stealing
5 Lack of color, as in skin tone / Paradigm ____
6 Singer who pointed at her wedding ring and shouted “That’s my husband!” in a viral moment at a 2026 NFL game: 2 wds.
7 Endocrine gland / [Row 6’s answer], to Travis Kelce since July 3, 2026
8 Hammer-wielding hero / ____ crisis
9 Raged / “Hold the ____” (Toto hit)
10 Feed, as a fire / Horselike
11 Tuskegee University founder ____ T. Washington / Fast

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