Wordy Wednesday 660: Pent Words 132

WORDY WEDNESDAY #658
MINI TOUCHWORD 7 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #659
SUDOKUROSTIC 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #660
PENT WORDS 132
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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 Sports official, briefly / 2001 PopCap game in which players turn lead into gold
2 Decorate / Conifer associated with Lebanon
3 The ____ and the Restless / Before and ____
4 Hip and trendy / Swimmer with whisker-like barbels
5 South Carolina representative Mace / Certain wading bird
6 Right-angle extension / Troublesome
7 Over there / Shesterkin of the New York Rangers
8 Blood-pumping organ / Plants-to-be
9 European capital formerly known as Christiania / Camel’s biome
10 Dog ____ dog / Tree related to the walnut
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Blunder
• “Let’s get ____ to rumble!”
• February 14 and March 17, for two
• One of the gifts of the magi in the New Testament
• Unaccompanied
• To ____ a Thief (1955 film)
• Mine finds
• Dense
• “Rock Me Amadeus” singer
• “Here’s the ____ of a man named Brady. . .”
• Bat from the Sonic the Hedgehog games
• Popular pub sport
• Book before Joel
• Common material for stockings
• Therefore
• Circular
• Wrinkle-removing implements
• Uncanny

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