Wordy Wednesday 225: Pent Words 45

WORDY WEDNESDAY #222

LETTER LENDING LIBRARY 2 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #223

LETTER LENDING LIBRARY 3 (answer)

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Anthony Bailey **
Jack Bross **
Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
John Bulten *
Michael Avanessian **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #224

PATHFINDER 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #225

PENT WORDS 45

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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 Inlets flanked by cliffs / Amazon smart speaker brand
2 Book, as a hotel room / Tai ____
3 Charles Dickens, for one / ____ Window (Hitchcock film)
4 The Curse of Monkey ____ (game in which "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange") / Modify, as text
5 Ignited / Surname of the composer of Jeopardy!'s famous "Think!" music
6 Type of tree in a legend about George Washington /  ____ enterprise
7 Way over there / Stuff made with chopped cabbage
8 ____ & Euphrates (board game designed by Reiner Knizia) / Huron or Erie, for example
9 Stoppable of Kim Possible / Country sometimes unofficially called Burma
10 A Night at the ____ (Queen album) / Unclean house
   
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Absolutely covered in filth
* Big name in rental trucks
* Handed over
* Port-au-Prince's country
* Slowly fermented beer
* It may be alphabetical
* Ostinato phrases in rock music
* Group of singers in a church
* Terminator: The ____ Connor Chronicles (2008-2009 TV series)
* Easily broken
* Mouse on The Simpsons
* Cliché
* "Every Rose Has Its ____" (Poison song)
* Camel relative with no hump
* More modern
* National ____ Writing Month (November event)
* Vegetable from which deep-fried rings are made
* Cut off completely

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Manufacturer of the Macan and the Cayenne"?
* Patron Puzzle #40, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($1 or more per month), is a Framelinks.
* Patreon supporters ($1 or more per month) will also receive issue #3 of Fox & Badger Magazine! A twelve-puzzle meta awaits your solving in "The Patron-Suggested Answer Issue", where patrons have suggested words to use as final answers!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!