Wordy Wednesday 630: Pent Words 126

WORDY WEDNESDAY #628
CODEWORDS 30 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #629
LOGICROSSWORD 13 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #630
PENT WORDS 126
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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 Vincent who voiced the villain Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective (1986) / At a very slow tempo
2 ____ the beans / Laundry detergent’s target
3 Wyoming’s northern neighbor / Mustard ____
4 Like a cloudless morning sky / Torn-up piece of golf turf
5 Power tool for smoothing surfaces / ____ Christianity (book by C. S. Lewis)
6 Concealed / Cocker ____
7 Word-guessing game show whose hosts have included Michael Reagan, Chuck Woolery, Bill Engvall, and RuPaul / Cancel
8 Pay no attention to / ____ pressure
9 Shape of any piece from the board game Hive / Side-to-side rotation
10 Strategic maneuver / Around the ____ (ESPN series)
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Bone in the skull
• Man of ____ (2013 film starring Henry Cavill)
• Chocolate mint brand name
• “The thrill of victory and the ____ of defeat”
• Blood of the Greek gods
• Rooms in a prison
• Sleeper’s sound
• Indian monetary unit
• Lowest point
• Overwhelming fear
• Japanese dish made with fish and rice
• Precise
• Subarctic coniferous forest
• With The, 1993-1999 sitcom starring Fran Drescher
• The third most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere
• Australian wild dog
• Muscular strength
• Light-refracting shape

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