Wordy Wednesday 690: Pent Words 138

WORDY WEDNESDAY #688
MINI TOUCHWORD 10 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #689
ANACROSSWORD 48 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #690
PENT WORDS 138
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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 Prior to / Very wide
2 Charge with a crime / ____ Patch Kids (candy brand)
3 Blood-pumping organ / Cowboy’s rope
4 ____ of paris / Jet ____ (traveler’s woe)
5 Male red deer / Romantic liaison
6 ____ Days Grace (Canadian rock band) / Tonioli of Dancing with the Stars
7 Get bigger / Item on a saucer
8 Bassist Claypool / Space for holding goods
9 Vacant opening / At a moderately slow tempo
10 Difficult physical work / Not loose, as a clothing fit
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• “Secret ____ Man” (hit song for Johnny Rivers)
• Musical instrument namesake John Philip ____
• The Jetsons’ dog
• “____ Days a Week” (hit song for the Beatles)
• Beyond disgusting
• Lost intentionally
• “Red” or “giant” mammal
• Carouse
• Sandy seashore
• Terminate, as a mission
• Thespian
• Cruel, savage person
• Big blunder
• Stricken down
• Olive Garden offering
• Spud
• Viscounts’ superiors
• Permissible

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