Wordy Wednesday 655: Pent Words 131

WORDY WEDNESDAY #653
MINI TOUCHWORD 6 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #654
SUDOKUROSTIC 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #655
PENT WORDS 131
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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 Japanese board game that resembles chess / Doom and ____
2 Pots and ____ / The Very ____ Caterpillar (Eric Carle book)
3 Tree that shares its name with a Colorado city / A dentist looks at them
4 Shift / Tally, as of population
5 Porridge made from ground hominy / A ship’s freight
6 Certain poker action / Organ that produces lymphocytes and filters blood
7 It covers the end of a lace / Proportion
8 Speedy / Amtrak vehicle
9 Actress Moriarty of The Boys / List of personnel
10 Finish / Early timepiece
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Traditional Inuit dwelling
• Traditional Navajo dwelling
• Circular
• Brian May’s band
• Weighing device
• Certain poker action
• Enormous
• Openly manifest
• Two strokes under par
• Involuntary muscle contraction
• Chris who played Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy
• Orange peels
• Sudden burst, as of electricity
• Former Indiana governor Mike
• False notions
• ____ by jury
• Adhere
• Shift

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