PUZZLE #574
PATHFINDER 6
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 Pokémon
1E) Children's book family consisting of Mama, Papa, Brother, and Sister (Watch out for how it's spelled!) [3 10 5]
2E) Tiny part of a larger picture [6]
3S) Asphyxiates [10]
4S) "Would you let me? Pretty please?" [3 1]
5N) "Back in the _____" (song that opens the Beatles' White Album) [4]
6N) Woe with a tooth or tummy [4]
7S) Makes certain [7]
8N) The fat of penguins, polar bears, and whales [7]
9S) Swimming using a basic breathing tube [10]
10N) Marching to a different drummer [7]
11S) Those bottom sections of cable news shows with scrolling text [7]
12W) Vivid scene of people arranged as if they're in a painting [7]
13S) Mentalist who may say "You're getting verrrry sleeeeepyyyy...." [9]
14S) Sports channel that airs Pardon the Interruption [4]
15N) Struck back [10]
16S) Film _____ (genre of black & white crime dramas) [4]
17N) Smoked sausage from Poland [8]
18S) Top ten hit by the Cranberries whose name is a synonym for "remain" [6]
19N) "Fly the Friendly _____" (onetime United Airlines slogan) [5]
20E) Pixel's shape [6]
21E) Arabian country that hosted the World Cup back in 2022 [5]
22N) Star _____: Strange New Worlds (sci-fi series on Paramount+) [4]
23S) A backslide to a worse state than before [10]
24S) List of editorial screw-ups that need correcting [6]
25W) Once out of style, but now back in style [5]
26W) Understands completely [4 2]
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!
D isn't a valid direction
ReplyDeleteWhoops! How ironic that that mistake was in the clue for "List of editorial screw-ups that need correcting"! Anyway, that typo has been fixed in this post! I'll also correct the .PDF file later.
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