Wordy Wednesday 195: Pent Words 39

WORDY WEDNESDAY #193

CODEWORDS 6 (answer)

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Anthony Bailey **
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Bryce Herdt **
Gordon Krefting *
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Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #194

FRAMELINKS 7 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #195

PENT WORDS 39

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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 Discipline / One of two on either side of the human face
2 Snoopy's comic strip / Lennon's widow
3 Trump's Secretary of Energy Rick / Bald ____
4 Puzzling question / Like a low remark
5 Speak pompously / Calendar page, often
6 Frasier was its spin-off / ". . . to ____ and to hold. . ."
7 Emulate the IRS, perhaps / Today weatherman Al
8 Subdivisions of families / Group of cattle
9 Gulliver's ____ / Turf
10 You might take the scenic one / A simple machine

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Pursue
* Changes direction
* Doggie
* Stared at greedily
* Gave five stars, say
* Made a quilt
* Religious belief
* Avoid
* Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike ____
* Anesthetic of yore
* Spooky
* Feel longing
* American Idol judge Cowell
* Jewish scripture
* It covers rock and disproves Spock
* ____ orange
* Boring tool
* Pyromaniac's crime

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 4-letter word for "Nevada birthplace of Gilligan's Island's Dawn Wells"?

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