Monday, January 4, 2021

PUZZLE #316: Pathfinder 2

PUZZLE #316
PATHFINDER 2

In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in the indicated direction, and makes at least one right-angled turn as it winds through the grid. When you're finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Once the grid is filled out, there should be another entry inside it that doesn't have a corresponding clue, nor does it start in a numbered space. This unlisted word is this week's FINAL ANSWER: A fictional race


1W) James Bond film that will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2021 [8 3 7]
2E) Horse-_____ cart [5]
3S) Extremely skeptical [11]
4N) Eyelash thickener [7]
5N) Amelia Bedelia, and others in her line of work [5]
6E) Deep, deep sleeps [5]
7E) Pixar movie featuring two blue elf brothers [6]
8N) Bank vault that tends to land on cartoon characters [4]
9S) Paula who was a judge on the first eight seasons of American Idol [5]
10E) Partner of "Bed" and "Bath" in a store's name [6]
11W) Wealthy teen girl from Archie comics [8]
12S) Film studio that originally distributed Clerks [7]
13S) Wisconsin's state animal [6]
14S) _____ En-lai [4]
14S also) Sprouting "pet" that comes in a "Weird Al" model [4]
15N) Church, like the one in Westminster [5]
16S) Create computer software [7]
17N) Like contestants on a reality show hosted by RuPaul [2 4]
18N) Instrument heard in the iPhone's default ringtone [7]
19S) What "♥" can represent [4]
20N) Laser_____ (DVD ancestor) [4]
21S) Strong string often balled up [5]
22W) Flag holder [4]
23W) Prove Darwin's theory right, in a way [6]
24W) Band that performed silly love songs like "Silly Love Songs" [5]
25W) Hubble whom a telescope was named after [5]
26W) With "The", Adam Sandler movie where he performs '80s songs like "Love Stinks" [7 6]
27E) Approximate [7]

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star"; more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

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