PUZZLE #510
PATHFINDER 5
This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Normally, you can suggest a puzzle type of your own choice over on my Patreon page, but both slots are full at the moment, so you might have to resort to PayPal if you still want to make a request of your own.
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: the name of a nerdy cartoon character
1W) Elvis Presley's middle name [4]
2W) Bearded dwarflike creatures from Gravity Falls [6]
3E) Dots in numbers like 2.71828 and 3.14159 [7 6]
4S) Beaded calculator [6]
5N) Snake-eating relative of ferrets [8]
6N) Wrens' residences [5]
7N) Long Island _____ tea (drink that doesn't even have tea) [4]
8N) Mexican Mrs. [6]
9N) "Same here!" [1 2 3]
10N) Allen Funt-hosted prank show that debuted on TV in 1948 [6 6]
11N) Gold bar [5]
12E) White bird used in classic magic tricks [4]
13N) Harshly reprimand [7]
14N) 1996 movie musical where Madonna sings "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" [5]
15S) _____ Armstrong (elastic action figure) [7]
16E) Coughing Revenge of the Sith character who can wield four lightsabers at once [7 8]
17W) Less than zero [8]
18S) Stick that one uses to stuff a cannonball down a cannon [6]
18S again) Mischievous little imp [6]
19N) Making a face like a purple McDonaldland character? [9]
20S) The _____ Bucket (restaurant from SpongeBob SquarePants that serves ground-up bait) [4]
21S) Handyman's kit [7]
22S) Purple plants which are New Hampshire's state flowers [6]
23W) College student’s quarters [4]
24W) Joe Biden's wife [4]
24E) Oxymoronic shrimp size [5]
25E) Robbed during a riot [6]
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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