Wordy Wednesday 203: Hex Pathfinder 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #200
PENT WORDS 40 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #201
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 3 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #202
ANACROSSWORD 14 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #203
HEX PATHFINDER 12
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.
1E “Researchers Now Believe ____ Christian Movie Attainable Within Our Lifetime” (headline from The Babylon Bee, a Christian satirical news site) (4)
2NE “Pope Francis Offers Mind-Blowing Deals On ____ For Reformation Day” (Babylon Bee headline) (11)
3NW Disregard (7)
4NW Dominant religion of India (8)
4E Emulate a snake or angry cat (4)
5SW Partner of tails, often (6, 2 wds.)
6NE John Rzeznik’s band (11, 3 wds.)
7NE Sets of horizontal lines in music (6)
8E “____ Face” (Weird Al song) (5)
9NE Gangster’s girlfriend (4)
9W Mr. ____ (near-sighted animated character) (5)
10SW “Liberal Christian Attempts To ____ Atheist But They Just Agree On Everything” (Babylon Bee headline) (6)
11SE Pierced with a thrust of a blade (7)
12NE His Symphony No. 8 is often called “The Symphony of a Thousand” (12, 2 wds.)
13NW The Sooner State (8)
14W The Little Mermaid villain (6)
15SW Michael Jackson classic (6, 2 wds.)
15SW Song from Beauty and the Beast (10, 3 wds.)
16NW Emulated a cow (5)
17SE Asylum (6)
18E Unable to walk, maybe (4)
19SE Classical Greek instrument (4)
20NW Asthmatic’s need, perhaps (7)
21NE He's Just Not That ____ You (2009 film) (4)
22E Milan’s country (5)
23W Fear greatly (5)
24SW Polluted precipitation (8, 2 wds.)
25E The farthest planet from the sun (7)
26NW Section of land almost surrounded by water (9)
27NE “Church Installs Ejection Seats To Remove Members Whose Phones Ring During ____” (Babylon Bee headline) (7)
28SW Like vampires and zombies (6)
29SE Looney ____ (5)
30NW Stratagem (6)
31NW Smallville actress Durance (5)
32E “And they all lived happily ____ after” (4)
33W Locale (5)

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