NEWVEMBER! PUZZLE #206: Pathfinder

NEWVEMBER!

PUZZLE #206

PATHFINDER

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 (except for one answer that just goes in a straight line). When you're finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Once the grid's filled in, unscramble the letters in the gray squares to get the FINAL ANSWER: An 8-letter word

1W) You Might Be a _____ If... (Jeff Foxworthy album) [7]
2E) Hey Arnold! character whose hair is braided up to look like a spider (Anagram of DIANNE) [6]
3N) Evil crocodile king from Donkey Kong Country and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [1 4]
4S) Web-slinging alter-ego of Peter Porker (not a typo; he's an actual pig, and he's gonna be in an animated Marvel movie this December) [6-3]
4S) Intermittent [8]
5S) Traditional Thanksgiving meal [5]
6N) "_____ Anthem (I Don't Want to Be in Love)" (Good Charlotte song) [5 5]
7E) Autumn apple drink [5]
8W) Complete and utter madness [8]
9N) Return address name [6]
9S) Los Angeles suburb where film's Bill & Ted are from [3 5]
10S) Barcelona boy [4]
11W) _____ Mack (current Disney Channel show) [4]
12S) Nihil _____ (defendant's refusal to plead) (Answer hidden in APPENDICITIS) [5]
13S) What live TV might use in case someone decides to cuss [4 5]
14S) Sole Top 40 hit for Luscious Jackson [5 3]
15S) Port-au-Prince's country [5]
16W) Huge herbivorous dino whose name means "arm lizard" [13]
17S) Pregnant cop from Fargo (1996) [5]
18N) North West's father [5]
19S) Stop, like marching soldiers [4]
20N) With "The", hidden camera show on TruTV where a magician pranks unsuspecting people [9 6]
21E) Abe Simpson, to Bart and Lisa [6]
22S) America's most popular potato chip brand [4]
23N) Sammy with 609 home runs [4]
24S) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? playwright [5]
25W) Bull-ish constellation? [6]
26E) Amazon founder and president Jeff [5]
27E) _____ 101 (2000s Nickelodeon show) [4]

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 version you can print out!