Wordy Wednesday 680: Pent Words 136

WORDY WEDNESDAY #678
LETRAVEX 4 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis *
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #679
CODEWORDS 32 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #680
PENT WORDS 136
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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 Grown-up / Not smooth
2 Substance in a culture medium / Six-legged bug
3 Lament / One wearing a mortarboard, briefly
4 Space vehicle designed to touch down on a celestial body / 12-month period
5 Mollusk with a ribbed shell / Colorant
6 “It’s Only a ____ Moon” / ____ Us (2018 online multiplayer game)
7 Sexually pure / Corrode with acid
8 Garners / Cowboy’s rope
9 American Dragon: Jake ____ (2005-2007 animated series) / Loving touch
10 One of the Great Lakes / Fixture in a sink
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Mel who voiced Bugs Bunny
• Cleanse of soap
• Sorrow
• Tartar ____
• Saying
• Extreme
• Strict
• Miniature representation, as of a plane
• Prepared
• The Phantom of the ____
• Unaccompanied
• Like James Rolfe’s “Video Game Nerd” character
• Nucleus of trained personnel
• “Working ____ Hero” (John Lennon song)
• Letter before beta
• Frighten
• Morally should
• Impressionist painter Claude

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