These puzzles were part of a set presented at the Advanced Placement Computer Science A grading session in Kansas City, MO in June 2023. Each puzzle leads to a one-word answer whose length is given in parentheses following the title. Save your answers from this month's puzzles to use in a later edition of Inroads.

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In each set, clues are given in alphabetical order by answers. Reorder the answers in each set to form a chain, and then look at the links within each chain to help find this puzzle's final answer.

1. Lead role in The Sandman (5)
   Where the Anglican Church was founded (7)
   Complain in a high-pitched way (5)
2. Its "close door" button probably doesn't do anything (8)
   Eat in a meadow, as a non-human might (5)
   Dance involving a stick or broom (5)
   Rights that a stadium may give a company (6)
   Survey choice when nothing else applies (5)
   Substance a violinist may put on their bow [either spelling works] (5)
3. Dumbo or Babar, for example (8)
   See the fourth clue (8)
   System of train transportation that lifts the train (from_____netic_____itation) (6)
   With the second clue on this list, French for Gabon or Catalan for Andorra, by law (8)
   What Scotty used to beam people up (11)
   Sign for someone born on September 1 (5)
4. Simplistic beauty, like that of a well-done proof (8)
   Cabinet department responsible for nuclear weapons (6)
   Mike Parson's position in the state where the reading is (8)
   Part of the cell responsible for synthesizing proteins (8)
   Playground equipment needing you to pump your legs (5)
5. Sam on the Muppets is one (5)
   Party with poi, perhaps (4)
   Like Yogi or Boo-Boo (6)
   Don Quixote thought one was a giant (8)
6. Cocktail made from rum, citrus juice, and sugar (8)
   Clear, colorless, flavorless ingredient from the Latin for "stiff" or "frozen" (7)
   It's good on a cake, but bad in hockey (5)
   Method of proof that starts with a base case (9)
   Desert wanderer (5)
   They're named for their eight arms (6)
7. Life science (7)
   Hard substance on the outside of a tooth (6)
   Slander, when it's on paper (5)
   Italian word for the book of an opera or musical (8)
   Stop sign shape (7)
   Cloth object that may have the name of a bat mitzvah inside it (8)

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