PUZZLE #560
LOGICROSSWORD 2
This puzzle (suggested by Patron Grant Fikes) contains a word or phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!
Using the clues below (as well as your vocabulary and logic skills), blacken some cells in the grid and fill the rest with letters to form words that are two or more letters long. All of the resulting words are legal to play in Scrabble, contain at least one vowel, and should be reasonably familiar to most people (those that aren't may be explicitly mentioned in the clues).
Once the grid has been correctly filled out, use it to get the FINAL ANSWER: the longest word in the solved grid which doesn’t contain the letter "T".
• No two black cells share an edge, though some of them do touch at
their corners. All the white cells connect each other through their
edges.
• There are 13 black cells in total throughout the grid. Four of those black cells are in Row 5, and five more black cells are in the four rows above it.
• A word in Row 2, 3, or 4 contains the letter sequence "DD"; the only other set of double consonants in the entire grid appears in the row immediately above this word.
• The only black cell in Row 9 is either in Column A or Column I.
• The first word in Column A starts and ends with the same letter; that letter doesn't appear anywhere else in the grid.
• Column C contains the words ALFA and GIRN (though not necessarily in that order); one of those words intersects the word LEONINE.
• Column G contains the word VIER, which intersects the word UTES.
• None of the columns have a word beginning with the letter "O".
• The vowels in B1 and A3 (neither of which is an "A" or "E") are identical to each other.
• The only two 9-letter words in the grid both end with the string of letters "ESTI_E" intersecting each other at F6.
• The word AVERS is in the same column as the word ENS, though not necessarily in that order.
• One word in the grid is an anagram of SPIRITED and ends with "S". An anagram of TRINE runs parallel to, and touches, this 8-letter word.
• The letter "D" appears four times, with no more than one appearing in a single column, and none in Column B.
• The four "L"s in the grid all lie within a group of four consecutive rows (not necessarily having one in each row).
• The three 2-letter words in the grid are AH, RE, and UP.
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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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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