Wordy Wednesday 490: Pent Words 98

WORDY WEDNESDAY #487
PATHFINDER 30 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #488
FEED THE FOXES (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #489
FRAMELINKS 14 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #490
PENT WORDS 98
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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 One-armed ____ (slot machine) / “Mickey” singer Basil

2 Radiant with warmth / Jeremy of The Lion King

3 Word before “coat” or “warfare” / ____ Ant (cartoon superhero)

4 Word of agreement, perhaps / It’s between the toes and the ankle

5 Skin with a knife / Attack from low-flying aircraft

6 “Taxation is ____” / Exact genetic copy

7 Minnesota port / Church projection

8 Mental picture / Unit of radioactivity

9 “____ and Ivory” (Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder duet) / Like the flavor of many toothpastes

10 ____ shark (shark species named after a folkloric creature) / Minor dent

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* San ____, CA

* Certain bulb

* One convicted of murder, for example

* Machine for hoisting

* Spine-chilling

* Carrot relative

* A tropical fish

* The county seat of Florida’s Hillsborough County

* ____ as a bat

* “I bless the ____ down in Africa. . .” (Toto lyric)

* Word of agreement, perhaps

* Making a knot

* Anguish

* Change to a reading of zero, as an odometer

* Cowboy’s leggings

* Certain woodwind

* ____ the Yard (2007 dance drama film)

* Trite

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