Wordy Wednesday 640: Pent Words 128

WORDY WEDNESDAY #638
MINI TOUCHWORD 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #639
SUDOKUROSTIC 7 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #640
PENT WORDS 128
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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 Lion or tiger, for one / Petition
2 Read the ____ act / Covered in thistles
3 Song at a funeral / Handbag
4 Split pea ____ / Economist Sowell
5 Vehicle at a funeral / Glasgow native
6 “And now a word from our ____” / “____ the Force, Luke”
7 Design inked on one’s skin / Did 70 in a 55 zone, for instance
8 “____ in a Manger” / Sharp pain
9 Geraldo who hosted The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults in 1986 (spoiler: the vaults contained nothing but debris and empty bottles) / Certain small-scaled trout
10 Treasure ____ / Item on the left side of a ledger
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• “Little Deuce ____”
• 48 ____ (CBS series)
• Wandered
• In the red
• Places where people live
• Lacking in skill
• What students do in school
• Cairo’s nation
• Former New York governor Spitzer
• What a nun wears
• Jewish Passover meal
• Duke who played Neely O’Hara in Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• Pyromaniac’s crime
• Relinquish, as a right
• Baker’s need
• Jeweler’s magnifier
• George who founded the Open Society Foundations
• Minute amount

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