Wordy Wednesday 635: Pent Words 127

WORDY WEDNESDAY #633
FRAMELINKS 26 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #634
MINI TOUCHWORD 2 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #635
PENT WORDS 127
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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 Quantity with magnitude, but not direction / Shopping center
2 President who’s the namesake of a dam / Gull relative
3 Walks leisurely / “Cut me ____ slack!”
4 Hit with the foot / Robinson ____ (Daniel Defoe novel)
5 Make into law / Masked vigilante created by Johnston McCulley
6 The largest organ in the human body / Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis ____
7 Title role for Bruce Boxleitner in a 1982 sci-fi flick / Delivered a blow to
8 Ribald / Post that supports a sail
9 Nimble / Genghis Khan was one
10 “All ____ the Watchtower” / Cleanse of soap
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Wrinkle-removing implements
• Tim of Home Improvement
• Smiles
• Surrounded by
• “____ Your Groove Thing” (hit song for Peaches & Herb)
• “The ____ is in the mail”
• Interrogate
• Place to get your hair done
• Partitions into regions
• Juliet’s lover
• The outermost part of a loaf of bread
• Consecrate
• Committed robbery
• Mistake
• Clever trick
• Beeping clock feature
• Plainly manifest
• Play a guitar

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