Wordy Wednesday 175: Pent Words 35

WORDY WEDNESDAY #173

WORDS WITHOUT FRIENDS 4 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #174

HEX PATHFINDER 10 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #175

PENT WORDS 35

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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 Tool with jaws / Meager
2 ___ the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren novel) / Surrounded by
3 Off-color / Match Game Hollywood Squares ____ (1983-1984 game show where each episode was 60 minutes of two other game shows)
4 False teaching / Gray wolf
5 Actress Carmen / How a period is pronounced, sometimes
6 Atlas contents / Tax on imported goods
7 ____ heap / Error causing massive confusion
8 Groom oneself carefully / Strong cloth made of flax
9 Moray, for one / ____ Michigan University (university in Ypsilanti)
10 Upsets / "____ me banana. . ."

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Danger
* Country estate
* Automaton
* Part of a calyx
* Nickname for Walter Eugene O’Reilly
* Bide for time
* Brief summary
* Rent
* You might be made one you can't refuse
* Rendezvous
* Peasant's ____ (homestarrunner.com adventure game)
* Just plain silly
* Come up
* Scooby-Doo and the ____ School (1988 TV movie)
* Banana ____
* _____ and Punishment in Suburbia (2000 film)
* Controls
* The Wii Remote has one that goes around your wrist

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "'Edge of Seventeen' singer Nicks"?

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