Wordy Wednesday 605: Pent Words 121

WORDY WEDNESDAY #603
SUDOKUROSTIC 2 (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #604
FRAMELINKS 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121
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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 On the ____ of the moment / Witch doctor
2 Tricks of the ____ / Masked swordsman of fiction
3 Funeral sighting / Infrequently
4 Enjoys a novel / Language from which the word “corgi” is derived
5 A fungus produces it / Place to get your hair done
6 A trigonometric function / Landlord
7 Paint the ____ red / Funeral sighting
8 Item frequently eaten by a tree, much to Charlie Brown’s chagrin / Mutilate
9 Penny ____ (webcomic about video gaming) / Flat watercraft
10 Timon of ____ / Cupid’s Greek counterpart
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Reside
• Meerkat ____ (2005-2008 nature documentary series)
• Bay or cove
• Express scorn
• Partitions of a building’s interior
• Unit of gold purity
• Word after “cocktail” or “wedding”
• “Buy one, get one free” events
• Wander
• Maid of ____
• Handbag
• Ford model that explodes from a light rear-end collision in the 1984 comedy film Top Secret!
• Rectal injection
• Meet the ____ (Sunday morning NBC show)
• Tightly packed
• Cherish
• Puffy, rounded hairstyles
• Wrath

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* What's a 5-letter word for "Dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs who never speaks"?

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