Cryptic Journey

A wandering journey is traced by the shaded path in the diagram. Moving generally top to bottom and proceeding left, right, up, or down but never diagonally, this path spells out the names of the journeying fellows, one of whom puts his 9 Down in 32 Down. Solve the puzzle as a diagramless; no bars or numbers are shown in the grid, but clues reflect proper sequence and numbering, and the finished puzzle displays 180° symmetry. Answers include seven capitalized words.

See the solution to last month's Puzzler.

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1. Upon reflection, top Austen novel's problems

6. Shelter, except for the first garden spot

10. Tear on the outside of organ seat (two words)

11. Girl in the Alps vocalized soprano note

12. Spry maid improved broad-based works

13. Elmer Fudd for one song we hear

14. Care about large level tracts

15. Utter sentence in jail the wrong way

17. One running baseball card company

19. Tests for ethics starting on the 2nd

21. Land back in elementary Latin

23. Fairy King in love: "Be right over"

25. Pass through peaks like Pops

27. Look embarrassed and horse around

28. Message received from ogre wandering Middle-earth

29. Dish in Southern America and Hawaii

31. Use deduction in finer cryptic

33. Mr. Young's debt problem returned

35. Light convertible I get in

36. Bouquet of daisies or roses using just the heads

37. Element of rule in Mobile

38. Shaped like a sphere or stratum

39. Some horn-honking that is for "babe"

40. Botch soybean paste packed with vitamin

41. Brine and sweat are different

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1. Dee destroying small rotisserie remnants

2. Necklace lifted off the bottom (said item reserved)

3. Changing my lane as a bully would

4. Opening with one sound of Morse

5. Audibly blew out, and traveled on an alternate route (two words)

7. Given new treads, or junked

8. Bee-bit forms of life

9. Band leader in garage's center

12. A seal put at sea levels

16. Tuned a lute to E for children's song

18. Somewhat repellent name to call a lady

20. Nuts or kernels, with one floating

22. Apes some warriors for an audience

24. Around this spot, tot is stuck

26. Con gets in a Ford model

28. Go back to nurturing Reginald before fight

30. Society fops and know-it-alls

32. Reversed low-down fate

34. Chief of mountain tribe in Colorado (that's not saying much)

Note: The instructions above are for this month's puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher clues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving, click here.