Wordy Wednesday 276: Section Six 27

WORDY WEDNESDAY #274

FOXGERYPTICS 14 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #275

PENT WORDS 55 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #276

SECTION SIX 27

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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Sarcastic attitude
2 Animal in its early stages of development
3 Sell
4 Hold
5 ____ Mutant Ninja Turtles
6 Difficult decision between two choices

Ring 2
* Early morning show on NBC
* National Novel Writing Month's month
* Prayer-ending interjection
* Used a yacht, say
* A type of engineering

Ring 3
* Descend gradually, as an airplane
* A type of drum
* Blade attached to a rifle
* Certain opiate

Ring 4
* Like the graph of y=mx+b
* Bed Bath & ____
* Invented, as a new word or phrase

Ring 5
* Resident of New Delhi, for example
* Horse with a habit of bucking

Ring 6
* Kurt whose death at 27 years old puts him in the so-called "27 Club"

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 11-letter word for "“Magic Carpet Ride” band"?

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Wordy Wednesday 275: Pent Words 55

WORDY WEDNESDAY #273

HEX PATHFINDER 18 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #274

FOXGERYPTICS 14 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #275

PENT WORDS 55

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Animal you shouldn't play cards with, according to a corny joke / TV and radio personality Linkletter
2 Bird to whose value Jesus compares the value of man / Word preceding "milk" or "sauce"
3 Singer Dion / 1/12 of a foot
4 "Hay is for ____!" (response from someone who doesn't like informal words like "hey") / Advertising symbol
5 Paquin who played Rogue in X-Men (2000) / Mexican foodstuff wrapped in a corn husk
6 Magazine that dubs the "Sexiest Man Alive" / ____ browns
7 Druggie / Through the ____ (Reiner Knizia board game)
8 Employed a razor / 1998 film with Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Chip
9 Not old / Ire
10 Life, for one / What a rolling stone doesn't gather

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Fruit of the Loom rival
* "Lather, ____, repeat"
* Eyes amorously
* Defenders of the ____ (2010 board game)
* 1/16 of a pound
* Laundry detergent brand
* Far from fresh
* The Divine Comedy author
* Astronomer Brahe
* One who doesn't consume milk, eggs, or meat
* Fred Flintstone's wife
* Like a high-pressure salesman
* Alamo rival
* Character in Disney's Hercules voiced by James Woods
* Crime committed by those with burning desires?
* Novel title character and cookie namesake Doone
* Disgusting
* A Chevrolet vehicle or a lake

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "____ Mutant Ninja Turtles"?

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Wordy Wednesday 274: Foxgeryptics 14

WORDY WEDNESDAY #272

FOXGERYPTICS 13 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #273

HEX PATHFINDER 18 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #274

FOXGERYPTICS 14

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Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Defenders of the ____ (2010 board game)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 273: Hex Pathfinder 18

WORDY WEDNESDAY #271

FOXGERYPTICS 12 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #272

FOXGERYPTICS 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #273

HEX PATHFINDER 18

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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.

1W Good ____ (show hosted by Alton Brown) (4)
2SW Place to buy magazines and such (9)
3SE Be numerous (6)
4NE Perspire (5)
5NW You might pour salt on one (5)
6SE Print on the other side of a piece of paper, for example (5)
7SW 1994 film about a seal (5)
8E “In the ____ of the Mountain King” (4)
9NE Suited (8)
10SE Certain rodent (4)
11W Thick slice (4)
12NW Devastate (9)
13NW Fertile (4)
14NE Place to keep money, perhaps (6)
15E Mr. Nanny (1993) star (9, 2 wds.)
15SW Baloney (7)
16E Romeo’s rival in Romeo and Juliet (6)
17NE Extremely angry (5)
18W Look fixedly (5)
18SE Mollusk remnant (8)
19W Forbidden ____ (cooperative board game that’s a sequel to Forbidden Island) (6)
20NW Diminish the strength of, as a mixture (6)
20SW Student’s furniture (4)
21NE Toto’s tether (5)
22SE “Total ____ of the Heart” (7)
23SE Emperor ____ (7)
24NW Meet the ____ (2008 Seltzer and Friedberg movie) (8)
25NE Ten plus ten plus ten plus ten (5)
26SW Language this puzzle is in (7)
27NE Door’s joint (5)
28E Rock and ____ (4)
29SW TruTV series whose host’s surname is Conover (19, 3 wds.)
30NE Motörhead song (11, 3 wds.)
30SE Certain Nissan (6)
31E An Austrian state (5)
32E Completely cut off, as ties (5)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A pair of Foxgeryptics!
* Patron Puzzle #57, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), isn't written yet. Oops!

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Wordy Wednesday 272: Foxgeryptics 13

WORDY WEDNESDAY #270

PENT WORDS 54 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #271

FOXGERYPTICS 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #272

FOXGERYPTICS 13

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Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 19-letter, 3-word answer for "TruTV series whose host’s surname is Conover"?

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Wordy Wednesday 271: Foxgeryptics 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #269

HEX PATHFINDER 17 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #270

PENT WORDS 54 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #271

FOXGERYPTICS 12

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Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* More Foxgeryptics!

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Wordy Wednesday 270: Pent Words 54

WORDY WEDNESDAY #268

HEX PATHFINDER 16 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #269

HEX PATHFINDER 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #270

PENT WORDS 54

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Charge with a crime / Flow slowly
2 A Bantu language / A keyboard key
3 Spelling contest / Not ____ Teen Movie (2001 movie)
4 Newsman Dan / Company associated with Sonic the Hedgehog
5 Lazy / Grammy winner Keys
6 Word before "cube" or "cream" / What you might do to your car windows on a cold day
7 ____ to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019 movie) / Add a program to a computer, say
8 Cleanse something soapy, perhaps / Bugs that bug dogs and cats
9 The Nile, for one / Deathly pale
10 ____ We Dance (2004 romantic comedy) / Fish-eating swimmer related to the weasel

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Book of maps
* ____ con carne
* Three strands of hair tied together
* "When ____ Eyes Are Smiling"
* Striped horse relative
* Clark's partner
* Actor Zac
* Thing of the past, perhaps
* Breastplate associated with Zeus and Athena
* ____ in the pan
* Blood of the Greek gods
* Ration
* A keyboard key
* Far from fresh
* Some symbols on a music staff
* New Delhi's country
* Not behind
* You Were ____ Really Here (2017 drama film)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A pair of Foxgeryptics!

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Sorry for no Wordy Wednesday this week

I was battling suicidal depression and had to undergo inpatient therapy with no Internet. I'll catch up on unread emails soon.

New Wordy Wednesday next week!

Wordy Wednesday 269: Hex Pathfinder 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #267

CODEWORDS 9 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #268

HEX PATHFINDER 16 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #269

HEX PATHFINDER 17

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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.

1SE Finding ____ (2003 film) (4)
2SW Blitzed (10)
3NW Sweet liquid that bees seek (6)
4NE Bird in a Poe work (5)
5W “I Like to ____ It” (song featured in the film Madagascar) (4)
6E ____ machine (calculator relative) (6)
6SW Great-great-great-great-great-grandparent, say (8)
7W Harmless (6)
8NE Place to buy lottery tickets, often (16, 2 wds.)
9SW America's Funniest Home ____ (6)
10NW Alex Van Halen's brother (5)
11SE Merrymaking (7)
12NW Mythical lamp occupant (5)
12E Chain ____ (4)
13SE Irate (5)
14SW Take all of one’s attention (7)
14SW “All your base are belong to us”, for example (7)
15NW 2012 drama directed by Henry Alex Rubin (10)
16NE Two socks or two shoes, say (4)
16SE Hoarder of sorts (7, 2 wds.)
17SW Faley who’d appreciate it if you visit redhead64puzzles.blogspot.com, or actor Gosling (4)
18NW Witty (6)
18SW Influence (5)
19NE Military academy student (5)
20E Operatic solo (4)
21NW Place where birds are kept (6)
22W Anderson who once hosted Family Feud (5)
23W Ankle bones (4)
24NE Word meaning “expert” with Yiddish origins (5)
25NW Silly (5)
26NE Camel feature (4)
27E Coca-Cola alternative (5)
28SW Iron Man’s real name (9, 2 wds.)
29NE ____ alcohol syndrome (5)
30W Attack with a machine gun from a low-flying aircraft (6)
31SW Condensed summary (8)
32E Tennis-playing namesake of a Richmond athletic center (10, 2 wds.)

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Breastplate associated with Zeus and Athena"?

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Wordy Wednesday 268: Hex Pathfinder 16

WORDY WEDNESDAY #265

PENT WORDS 53 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #266

SECTION SIX 26 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #267

CODEWORDS 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #268

HEX PATHFINDER 16

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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.

1W Rainwater container (7)
2E One who abstains from cigarette use (9)
3SW Nikon rival (5)
3SW Light narrow boats (6)
4NE Michael Moore documentary about health care (5)
5E Board game in which players make the red planet livable (16, 2 wds.)
6W Author Hemingway (6)
7SW Certain raccoon relative (5)
7SW Heraldry concern (10, 3 wds.)
8NE Beginning (5)
9SE Maltreats (6)
10NW ____ hound (6)
11NE Autumn Sonata director Bergman (6)
12E Bad smell (4)
13SE Certain internal organ (6)
14NW You can’t make a silk one out of a sow’s ear (5)
15NE 2004-2012 Fox medical drama (5)
15SE New Testament king who wanted to murder baby Jesus (5)
16NW Extremely overweight (5)
17W Judge’s outer garment (4)
18E ESPN show hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon (21, 3 wds.)
19NW ____ go Bragh (4)
20SE Not courageous (5)
21NW Stick for jamming ammunition into a firearm (6)
22SW Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ____ (4)
23NW Attentive (5)
23SW Actress Hathaway (4)
24SE It wasn’t built in a day (4)
25SE Horse’s sound (5)
26NE Ten-cent piece (4)
27W Measure of how tall something is (6)
28SW Pet store purchase (5)
29NE Fake attack (5)
29W Circus participant, sometimes (4)
30E Lottery-like casino game (4)
31NW Hammer-wielding comic book character (4)
32SW Professional bowler’s goal (6)
33NE Tees and such (6)

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* What's a 6-letter word for "America's Funniest Home ____"?

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Wordy Wednesday 267: Codewords 9

WORDY WEDNESDAY #264

FRAMELINKS 11 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #265

PENT WORDS 53 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #266

SECTION SIX 26 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #267

CODEWORDS 9

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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 4-letter word for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ____"?

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Wordy Wednesday 265: Pent Words 53 & Wordy Wednesday 266: Section Six 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #263

FRAMELINKS 10 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #264

FRAMELINKS 11 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #265

PENT WORDS 53

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 "Werewolves of ____" (Warren Zevon song that sounds an awful lot like a Lynyrd Skynyrd song) / Hideous
2 Space ____ (Vlaada Chvátil board game) / Comprehend
3 Deathly pale / "____ Paradise" (Weird Al song)
4 Squelch / ____ & Order: Special Victims Unit
5 Common sandwich condiment, briefly / Smells
6 Thick / Patreon CEO Jack
7 Catlike / 12 months
8 Shoptalk / Novelist Wharton
9 A new ____ on life / Sub-detecting device
10 Triple ____ (certain liqueur) / "Sweet Home ____" (Lynyrd Skynyrd song that sounds an awful lot like a Warren Zevon song)

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Came up
* John, Paul, George, and Ringo, for four
* Kid
* Symbol in writing
* ____ Island (former island in New York City)
* Becoming author Michelle
* Stereotypical cop's breakfast item
* 100 centimes, in Algeria
* La ____ (Milan opera house)
* John of tractor fame
* Religion with Mohammed as its prophet
* Marijuana, slangily
* It's made from regenerated cellulose
* What an insomniac might count
* Person who prefers solitude
* Shoptalk
* "____ not, want not"
* Planet ____ (2006 miniseries)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #266

SECTION SIX 26

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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Common Wheel of Fortune category
2 Camera part
3 Murphy of The Haunted Mansion (2003)
4 The North Star
5 President Hoover
6 The Binding of ____: Rebirth

Ring 2
* Fast
* One more advanced in age
* Cog projections
* Piece of luggage, perhaps
* ____ Columbia

Ring 3
* Characteristics
* Spokesperson's pitch
* Absolutely hate
* Theft

Ring 4
* Layer
* Descendant of Jacob
* Newbery Medal winner Eleanor or crossword puzzle author Harvey

Ring 5
* Pittsburgh team
* Take a nap, say

Ring 6
* One of 26 in the English alphabet

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
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Wordy Wednesday 264: Framelinks 11

WORDY WEDNESDAY #262

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 8 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #263

FRAMELINKS 10 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #264

FRAMELINKS 11

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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
AAA BBBB CC D EEEEEEEE F GGGG HHHH IIIII KK LLL MMMMM NNNN OOOO P RRRRRR S TTTTTTT U YY ZZ

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Becoming author Michelle"?
* What's a 6-letter word for "One of 26 in the English alphabet"?

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Wordy Wednesday 263: Framelinks 10

WORDY WEDNESDAY #261

PATHFINDER 12 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #262

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #263

FRAMELINKS 10

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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
AAAAAAAA BB CCC DDDDDDD EEEEEEEEEE HH III LLLL MMMMM NNNNNNNN OO PP RRRRRRR S TTTTT Y

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* Another Framelinks!

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Wordy Wednesday 262: Snake Crisscross 8

WORDY WEDNESDAY #259

IN-GENIE-OUS (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #260

PENT WORDS 52 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #261

PATHFINDER 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #262

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 8

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This puzzle contains a word suggested by PlasmaMan.
This puzzle's crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
“Take On Me” band: hyph.
Snake associated with Cleopatra
Lair
George Gershwin’s brother
On the ____ (on the run from the law)
Spoil
Kimono accessory
Stimpy’s partner
In medias ____
Number of commandments
Application
4 LETTERS
Kournikova of tennis
Tom Hardy’s role in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Root ____
Reverberation
Otherwise
Offhand
Certain heron relative
Repair
Southern stew ingredient
South ____ (cartoon with Cartman)
A mode of Indian music
“Darn!”
Emulate the MGM lion
Snare
5 LETTERS
Out of bed
Boxer Mike
6 LETTERS
Obscure, as confidential parts of text
____ Island (New York City borough)
Dormant
Short-sleeved garment: hyph.
7 LETTERS
Container for keeping a drink hot or cold
8 LETTERS
Chooses not to vote
Polluted precipitation: 2 wds.
The capital of North Dakota
A brand of chewing gum
9 LETTERS
A Massachusetts town
10 LETTERS
Flashy jewelry: hyph.
11 LETTERS
Bitterly angry
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
One portraying a role
Buffalo
Task
Approximately
Stuff injected anally
Forbidden in Islam
Angry
Pi Day’s month
Mickey or Minnie, for one
Newspaper pieces about the recently deceased, for short
Forcefully removes from a position
____-fire
____ plug
Tony of comic books
____ Will Be Blood (2007 film)
6 LETTERS
Bruce of comic books
Writes defamatory statements about
Courteney’s Friends role
Zero of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Number of pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed Jesus
____ Joe’s (American grocery store chain)
7 LETTERS
Not for
Depleted
Brother or sister
8 LETTERS
Giving alcohol to an alcoholic, say

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* A Framelinks!
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Wordy Wednesday 261: Pathfinder 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #258

CODEWORDS 8 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #259

IN-GENIE-OUS (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #260

PENT WORDS 52 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #261

PATHFINDER 12

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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 Pertaining to current events, perhaps (7)
2 Athlete in a 2018 Nike ad campaign (5 10)
3 Shamu, for one (4)
4 A type of beetle (6)
5 Tentacled sea creatures (6)
6 Military academy student (5)
7 Noisy fight (6)
8 The Legend of Zelda: A ____ to the Past (4)
9 Small restaurant (6)
10 Not dead (5)
11 A teenager going out might have one (6)
11 Picasso emulator, perhaps (6)
12 ____ oil (6)
13 Old-timey jukebox (11)
14 Submarine’s weapon (7)
15 Defeat thoroughly (7)
16 Said again (8)
17 Lyft alternative (4)
18 Pursue (5)
19 Mr. Musk (4)
20 Clinton’s 1996 opponent (4)
21 ____ duck (6)
22 One of the Greek Muses (5)
23 Four pecks (6)
24 Suave (6)
25 Large crustacean (4 4)
26 Buy (8)
27 Like a successful mountain climber vis-à-vis a mountain (4)
28 Give heroin to a drug addict, say (6)
29 A grocery store checker scans it (3 4)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Zero of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"?

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Wordy Wednesday 259: In-Genie-ous & Wordy Wednesday 260: Pent Words 52

WORDY WEDNESDAY #257

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 7 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #258

CODEWORDS 8 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #259

IN-GENIE-OUS

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #260

PENT WORDS 52

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Emit light, as something hot / Maddow of MSNBC
2 A railroad in Monopoly / Newsman Rather
3 Verb feature / Amount on a tag, perhaps
4 "____ Ga Ga" (Queen song) / Selected
5 ____ chamber / Reagan's predecessor
6 Small donkey used as a pack animal / A type of billiards shot
7 "All the world's a ____. . ." / Software prototypes
8 Clothing store purchase, perhaps / Small digging tool
9 A river in Europe / ____ Without a Cause
10 Mike of boxing fame / Slang

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* San Diego baseballer
* Prognosticators
* Explode
* Twist, as a wet towel
* A lot
* Emit light
* Era
* Prop for Bob Ross
* ____ Orange (herbicide)
* Hurt
* Aids a criminal
* Swap
* Blood of the Greek gods
* Sired, Biblically
* Los Angeles Lakers guard Stephenson
* Device for detecting submarines and such
* Violent public displays
* A type of billiards shot

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 4-letter word for "Shamu, for one"?
* Patron Puzzle #53, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), hasn't been written yet. Looks like your author's been slacking off! Oops!

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Wordy Wednesday 258: Codewords 8

WORDY WEDNESDAY #256

SECTION SIX 25 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #257

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 7 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #258

CODEWORDS 8

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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A video! Really.
* What's a 5-letter word for "Los Angeles Lakers guard Stephenson"?

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Wordy Wednesday 257: Snake Crisscross 7

WORDY WEDNESDAY #254

PATHFINDER 11 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #255

PENT WORDS 51 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #256

SECTION SIX 25 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #257

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 7

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This puzzle's crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
____ King Cole
Basketball hoop feature
____ King Cole
Make a knot
Male fox
4 LETTERS
Blended tea drink
The Hunchback of Notre ____
College student’s living quarters, briefly
Lack of difficulty
____ Girl (2014 thriller)
Aslan, for one
Stallion’s mate
Philosopher John Stuart ____
Nothing, in Spanish
“Go away!”
____ chef
Pack down tightly with a series of blows
Powdered drink mix trademark
Chinese finger ____
5 LETTERS
Occur as a result
____ square (ancestor of the sudoku puzzle)
Place to get your hair done
6 LETTERS
Tropical lizards
Name of Bell Labs’ Plan 9 Bunny
Finger-wiping cloth at a table
7 LETTERS
Appetites
Highly developed skill
“These Arms of Mine” singer Otis
9 LETTERS
Othello’s wife
Symbol seen in a subtraction problem: 2 wds.
“After the Gold Rush” singer: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Home ____ (1990 comedy)
Cries from a flock
It can be measured in degrees or radians
Regions
Australian canine
TV show : episode :: magazine : ____
Somewhat, informally
Four-seated automobile
Jewish Passover service
“All ____ Up” (Elvis song)
Boozehound
A city in Florida
6 LETTERS
Really showering with affection, with “on”
Numbskull
7 LETTERS
____ Dollar Listing New York
Celebrated
8 LETTERS
Estrange
9 LETTERS
Hermitage
11 LETTERS
Seat for lying down in: 2 wds.

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* A Codewords!
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Wordy Wednesday 256: Section Six 25

WORDY WEDNESDAY #253

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 6 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #254

PATHFINDER 11 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #255

PENT WORDS 51 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #256

SECTION SIX 25

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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 A type of handgun
2 Entities
3 Conceited
4 Wild marjoram
5 Acorn-obsessed Ice Age character
6 The five-finger one is illegal

Ring 2
* Butt
* Be made up (of)
* Units of currency in Mario games
* Certain American Indian's dwelling
* ____ of the Body Snatchers

Ring 3
* Nasal cavity
* La Paz's country
* Namesake of the Little Caesars parody in Home Alone
* Psalm 34 is one in Hebrew

Ring 4
* Aired again
* Musician with a bow
* Incites to attack

Ring 5
* Title character Twist in a Charles Dickens novel
* You might have a midlife one

Ring 6
* Traditional 25th anniversary gift

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Name of Bell Labs’ Plan 9 Bunny"?

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