Wordy Wednesday 557: Anacrossword 34& Wordy Wednesday 558: Diagramless Crossword 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #555
PENT WORDS 111 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen *
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #556
SECTION SIX 55 (hint)

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LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #557
ANACROSSWORD 34
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• Wailing female spirit in Irish folklore
• One who studies plants
• Popular seafood soup: 2 wds.
• Curb Your ____ (HBO series since 2000)
• Type of scanner or truck
• Israelite
• Enclave of South Africa
• Interlock
• Device for reheating leftovers, often
• Yale University’s home: 2 wds.
• Biblical ark builder
• Chief magistrate
• Emitted rays of light
• ____ Dogg (rapper)
• A decimeter, in relation to a meter
• Carry, as in a bag

WORDY WEDNESDAY #558
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 12
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This crossword has 62 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.

ACROSS
1 ____ Rich or Die Tryin’ (50 Cent’s debut album)
4 Renown
5 Natural ____
8 Quench
11 Venomous Egyptian snakes
13 ____ 1 Imports
14 Palo ____, California
17 First part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
21 Structures used in funeral rites
22 Berets and beanies
23 Car
24 Morays and congers
26 “It Can Happen” band
27 Male fox
28 20 quires
30 Emulate Duke Kahanamoku
33 A large deer
36 Way cool
38 Lawman Wyatt
40 Princess Celestia’s sister in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
42 Local ____ network
44 Untitled ____ Game (2019 video game)
47 Second part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
50 Anime ____ (Los Angeles anime convention)
51 One of Columbus’s three ships
52 Sandwich shop
53 Besmirched
55 Mystery novelist Stout
56 ____ Rabbit (Song of the South character)
57 Not good
DOWN
1 Computer company associated with black and white spotted boxes
2 United Arab ____
3 Brewed beverage
4 Country music star Hill
5 Surprised sound
6 Covered in burnt remains
7 Slash on a bowler’s scorecard
8 Health resort
9 Sunbathing outcome
10 Anna’s sister in Frozen
12 Scornful expression
15 Promote
16 Aware of
18 ____ of Man
19 Installment of a magazine
20 “____ Bless America”
25 Silverman of stand-up
29 Sauce whose name means “sailor” in Italian
31 A mode in Indian music
32 Palm leaf
33 2003 holiday film starring Will Ferrell
34 Fisherman’s need
35 Scottish Reformed theologian John
37 Longed for
39 Item near a fireplace, perhaps
41 What electric guitars plug into
43 Li’l ____ (comic character)
45 The bottom of the foot
46 Square ____ (Final Fantasy publisher)
48 Actor Selleck
49 Scottish boy
54 ____ and flow

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Boo from Baldur’s Gate III is this type of rodent"?

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Wordy Wednesday 556: Section Six 55

WORDY WEDNESDAY #554
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 24 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Steve Smith *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #555
PENT WORDS 111 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #556
SECTION SIX 55
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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 Viral disease also known as infantile paralysis
2 A clean bill of ____
3 One in a box of 64, perhaps
4 Like distinctly bright colors
5 Idaho farmer’s crop, often
6 Yardsticks and such

Ring 2
* “____ lips sink ships”
* Booby ____
* Fuss: hyph.
* Material for phonograph records
* Equine character in Lamb Chop’s Play-Along: 2 wds.

Ring 3
* Golden, as bygone days
* Kappa’s predecessor
* Gasoline, in Liverpool
* Perfume ingredient extracted from petals: 2 wds.

Ring 4
* Greek god of the sun
* The process of learning via repetition
* Not compulsory or necessary

Ring 5
* Porch
* Asthmatic’s need

Ring 6
* Charlton of 55 Days at Peking (1963)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What do you call one who studies plants?
* What computer company is associated with black and white spotted boxes?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 555: Pent Words 111

WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
David Bronshvayg **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #554
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 24 (hint)

As of this writing, 11 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #555
PENT WORDS 111
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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 A type of billiards shot / Gather
2 Michele who played Rachel Berry on Glee / The time and place a book’s events happen in
3 Collectible for an animation fan, say / One of five New York City subdivisions
4 Word before “shirt” or “rehearsal” / Passover wafer
5 Section of a circumference / Entices
6 Horned African mammal, for short / “____ Home Alabama” (Lynyrd Skynyrd song)
7 In a perfect world / Make a choice
8 Shrill scream / Billionaire Musk
9 0.00001% of a joule / Captain ____ (Marvel character)
10 One who leads prayers in a mosque / Plane for dropping explosives
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, for one
* Use a broom
* It supports a painter’s canvas
* A skateboarding maneuver
* Moon who married Rob Zombie in 2002
* “____ Grove” (The Doobie Brothers song)
* Gin’s partner
* Not large
* An orange yellow hue
* Ballroom dance of Cuban origin
* The color blue, in heraldry
* “Float like a butterfly, ____ like a bee”
* Dull people
* The ____ & the Papas
* Naive rural resident
* Many a Twitch user
* Conifer of the pine family
* Salmon relative

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Charlton of 55 Days at Peking (1963)"?

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Wordy Wednesday 554: Snake Crisscross 24

WORDY WEDNESDAY #551
CRYPTICROSTIC 19 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #552
FRAMELINKS 19 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #554
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 24
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also needs to be divided into a number of areas which follow a single clear path, called “snakes”. Each of these snakes contains an entry reading from one end of the path to the other; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Snake Words”. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes and which entry corresponds to each snake.

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

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Electric guitarist’s need
Brian of Roxy Music
Important period of time
“To ____ is human. . .”
Arden of Our Miss Brooks
On the ____ (running from the law)
Prepare, as a dinner table
Goody ____-shoes
4 LETTERS
Downwind
Thing not to put before the horse
State of prolonged unconsciousness
Novelist Ferber
Adventures of Huckleberry ____
Period preceding Easter
Marlin’s son, in a Pixar movie
City in which the Iditarod ends
Violent anger
Strap for controlling a horse
Annoy
Certain clay mineral
“Will this be on the ____?”
5 LETTERS
Sheath on a shoelace
Very thin pancake
Snowy ____ (bird)
Barkin of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Group of warships
Go against the ____
Tacitly suggest
Consumer advocate Ralph
Frighten
Mexican foodstuffs served in crunchy shells
Polynesian carvings made of wood or stone
Walks at a moderate speed
6 LETTERS
Votes into office
Yeast, for example
Bother
7 LETTERS
Tower of a mosque
Snake
8 LETTERS
Very brief joke: hyph.
10 LETTERS
Role for Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014): 2 wds.
11 LETTERS
Power derived in environmentally friendly ways: 2 wds.
17 LETTERS
The Quebec Nordiques, since 1995: 2 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
^
Bald ____ (bird)
Large spiral-horned antelope
Tiny, like Santa’s helpers
“____ Sandman” (Metallica song)
Dormant
Some small hawks
The last Greek letter
Irish playwright Wilde
The 86th element
National Organization for ____ (feminist group)
6 LETTERS
“____, vegetable, or mineral?”
Most recent
Magician’s interjection
Rue
Just
Superficial facade
7 LETTERS
“____ Bogey March”
Carmen who played Lani McKenzie on Baywatch
Military weapon sometimes called a pineapple
Mountain in the state of Washington
Unable to reproduce
8 LETTERS
Jeep pickup truck named after a Native American tribe
Light fixture that might be favored by a hippie: 2 wds.
9 LETTERS
Stuff that wards off insects
Going on a risky undertaking

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Moon who married Rob Zombie in 2002"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 553: Snake Crisscross 23

WORDY WEDNESDAY #550
PENT WORDS 110 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Derek Allen *
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #551
CRYPTICROSTIC 19 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #552
FRAMELINKS 19 (hint)

As of this writing, 7 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Cindy Heisler. 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!
This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also needs to be divided into a number of areas which follow a single clear path, called “snakes”. Each of these snakes contains an entry reading from one end of the path to the other; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Snake Words”. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes and which entry corresponds to each snake.

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

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Poetic preposition
Mine find
____ doll
Health resort
4 LETTERS
There are three in a yard
Mulberry relatives
Rock music genre with dark, morbid lyrics
Foal’s mother
Lifestyles of the ____ and Famous
Peel, as that of an orange
Wander
Davenport or divan
Scrabble piece
5 LETTERS
First-class
“Anything Could Happen” singer Goulding
“Cat Scratch ____” (Ted Nugent song)
Have another go at
Wintertime wrap
Sneer
Identified as male or female, as an animal
6 LETTERS
The color silver, in heraldry
Building for horses
7 LETTERS
Far from harsh
Young tree
12 LETTERS
Something advantageous kept hidden until needed: 4 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Port of ____
Gold brick, for example
Metric unit of volume
New Zealand native
Any row, column, or box in a standard Sudoku grid, vis-à-vis the whole grid
____ ribs
6 LETTERS
City near the Rio Grande: 2 wds.
Name of the barber in The Barber of Seville
7 LETTERS
Small intestine infection which might be spread through contaminated water
Someone who isn’t Jewish
Lists of topics in the backs of books
8 LETTERS
Bugle call heard at sunrise
1983 film starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana
11 LETTERS
Piece of furniture on which a drink mug might be set: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 10-letter, 2-word answer for "Role for Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014)"?
* Patron Puzzle #111, which will be delivered on August 8, 2023, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Super Pent Words.

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