Wordy Wednesday 190: Pent Words 38

WORDY WEDNESDAY #188

CRYPTICROSTIC 5 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #189

ANACROSSWORD 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #190

PENT WORDS 38

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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 Killer whale / Crème de ____
2 Draw / Make glossy
3 Crusader / 2009-2015 Fox series
4 Country singer ____ Travis / Bell invention, briefly
5 Person with a crystal ball / Like a piercing scream
6 Classic Van Halen song that isn't "Jump" / Finished
7 Ice cream parlor offerings / Boyz II ____
8 Pine (for) / The liver, for one
9 Derision / Fortune telling deck
10 Like many cigars, in terms of nationality / Put on clothes

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Agassi of tennis
* 144 units
* Home ____ 2: Lost in New York
* What a large tree may provide
* Intended
* Symbol in an ancient language, perhaps
* Humped mammal
* Not over
* Violet relative
* Rub out, as a mistake
* In that location
* Comedienne DeGeneres
* Baseball's "Big Papi" David
* Nut of an oak
* Greek mythological hunter
* Make into law
* Express anger, perhaps
* Diving acronym-turned-word

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* Foxgeryptics!
* What's a 9-letter word for "Setting for a lewd limerick"?

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