Wordy Wednesday 374: Crypticrostic 10 & Wordy Wednesday 375: Pent Words 75

WORDY WEDNESDAY #371
TOUCHWORD 18 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
M. Sean Molley **
Mark Ballinger **
Pavel Curtis **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #372
MURRIAM-WEBSTER (hint)
As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's a hint. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

HUMP DAY WORD FUN #373
CUT UPT RIO BYT RIO 10 (hint)
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DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #374
CRYPTICROSTIC 10
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

A male youth in captivating legend, ultimately! __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                                26 15 42 40 46 33 06
BMW conclusively declining fabric from which seat belts are made __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                                                 36 12 32 44 14 21 07
Delineate sketchy hotel suite __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                              19 05 34 39 45 27 41 10 38 20
Disheartened timid person and youth leader saunter __ __ __ __ __
                                                   30 08 25 17 47
Grand word found in the King James Bible, perhaps __ __ __ __
                                                  22 11 29 03
Kelvin only eats young goat, going back to Canadian river __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
                                                          01 16 31 04 43 37 13 23
Weaselly pet has paws around sides of Rottweiler __ __ __ __ __ __
                                                 09 35 18 24 02 28

WORDY WEDNESDAY #375
PENT WORDS 75
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 White item painted red in Wonderland / First name of composer Holst or Mahler
2 Sweetheart / Hand-to-hand struggle
3 Make better / Zombies ____ My Neighbors (1993 video game)
4 Game theorist and equilibrium namesake John / Spinning helicopter parts
5 ____ one on (get drunk) / Make like new again
6 Tim whose surname became synonymous with genuflecting in prayer / Fruit on the reverse of Georgia's state quarter
7 Musical composition for practicing a technique / Instrument for Pablo Casals
8 "Okie from Muskogee" singer's surname / ____-O-Honey (candy brand)
9 Not ecclesiastical / Toilet
10 What Mr. Brown can do in a Dr. Seuss book / Tropic Thunder actor ____ T. Jackson

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Big name in violins
____ Kai (Netflix series based on The Karate Kid)
* Brigham Young University's city
* Fend (off)
* Laconic
The Taming of the ____
Euthyphro author
* Certain billiards shot
* ____ Cenotaph (San Antonio monument where Ozzy Osbourne took an infamous leak in 1982)
* Extremely, in slang
* Certain welding need
* Item on a vine, perhaps
* Form a canyon, say
* Zelda Williams's father
* Ration
* Incisors, for example
* Joe who mistakenly identified himself as his own husband in 2020
* Transition without interruption

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 7-letter word for "African capital city in which you won't find adobe, according to Mario Is Missing!"? 
* You'll feel awfully puzzled by this one! 

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

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