Wordy Wednesday 184: Cryptic Crossword Plus

WORDY WEDNESDAY #182
WORDS WITHOUT FRIENDS 5 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Anthony Bailey **
Jack Bross **
Pavel Curtis **
Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #183
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 5 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #184
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PLUS
This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Jack Bross. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!
In this cryptic crossword, the answer from the wordplay half of each clue contains an extra letter. For example, if the clue were "Shy memo for North American canine (6)", the answer would be COYOTE, as clued by "North American canine"; the wordplay half clues COY+NOTE, which has an extra N. These extra letters, in clue order, spell one final cryptic clue, which solves normally and produces this puzzle’s final 9-letter answer.
ACROSS
1 Wandering bride is oppressive (4)
3 Wild hog and wild arbor (4)
6 Divide a type of Game Boy Advance and a type of Nintendo DS (5)
10 The Spanish castle for a French mathematician (7)
11 Grandmother and Gospel writer's linguistic concern (7)
12 Be biased against women (5)
13 Answers: bison, lotus, bananas (9)
14 Alters mood upon being consumed by fishing rod parts (8)
15 Whole tumbling trainee (6)
18 Banquet went down in plane (6)
20 Crustaceans and amorphous entities rest uneasily (8)
23 Stoolie is sure to get Ray (9)
25 Remnant from tattered circle (5)
27 Monarch to evaluate thankless person (7)
28 Lohan with horrible lady sins (7)
29 $1,000 search for visitor (5)
30 Some freshwater fish walk briskly (4)
31 Japanese, Australians have Jacob's brother (4)
DOWN
1 Delete Adam's partner in search (5)
2 Guys who fix things rewrite a Zen primer (9)
4 Make excessive claims about Bad Ole Silver (8)
5 Entertain drunken general (6)
6 Courageous, disciplined person caroled, eating portion (7)
7 Without clear head, ascend to state of uncertainty (5)
8 Propulsive devices with the endless oxidation and blunders (9)
9 Came to a stop with freight and Ted (6)
14 Festivity regarding coffee and frosting (9)
16 I deliver catalogs for dreamers (9)
17 Abbott's partner tossed cellos out (8)
19 Aviatrix is close to male red deer (7)
21 Gazing fixedly with lace (6)
22 Mom or dad's terrible pattern (6)
24 Japanese pufferfish, that is, or a musical work (5)
26 Shrinking drinking vessel from the South for nutria (5)

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What;s a 5-letter word for "The largest moon of Saturn"?

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