Wordy Wednesday 502: Snake Crisscross 21

WORDY WEDNESDAY #500
PENT WORDS 100 (answer)

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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Michael Lebowitz **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Ezra Brauner **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #501
TOUCHWORD 26 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #502
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 21
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This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also needs to be divided into a number of areas which follow a single clear path, called “snakes”. Each of these snakes contains an entry reading from one end of the path to the other; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Snake Words”. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes and which entry corresponds to each snake.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
It might belong in a museum
Bear’s home
The day before Christmas, for example
Prune
Light bite
Bowling alley item
Pea container
Unhappy
Vietnamese New Year
4 LETTERS
English mathematician Turing
Treble’s opposite
Reverberate
Banner
Jeans namesake Strauss
Prominent feature of a giraffe
Part of a Venetian blind
Arctic ____
Large book
5 LETTERS
Military flutes
Rottweiler’s restraint
It’s measured in beats per minute
Church donation
6 LETTERS
Julia’s Seinfeld role
Idiot
Cosine’s multiplicative inverse
9 LETTERS
Ladies’ counterparts
13 LETTERS
2022 roguelike video game in which a young sheep amasses religious followers: 4 wds.
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
____ Cody Banks (2003 movie)
Jeans material
Bloodhound biters
Express a view
6 LETTERS
Heroic Polonaise composer
Silver and gold, for two
Small amounts
Pardonable
7 LETTERS
Likely to arouse intense feelings
Everlasting
Many a church meal
10 LETTERS
High-ranking diplomat
15 LETTERS
1997 science fiction movie starring Gary Oldman as the evil Zorg: 3 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* In what 1954 thriller does James Stewart play nosy photojournalist L.B. Jefferies?
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