Wordy Wednesday 259: In-Genie-ous & Wordy Wednesday 260: Pent Words 52

WORDY WEDNESDAY #257

SNAKE CRISSCROSS 7 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #258

CODEWORDS 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #259

IN-GENIE-OUS

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #260

PENT WORDS 52

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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 Emit light, as something hot / Maddow of MSNBC
2 A railroad in Monopoly / Newsman Rather
3 Verb feature / Amount on a tag, perhaps
4 "____ Ga Ga" (Queen song) / Selected
5 ____ chamber / Reagan's predecessor
6 Small donkey used as a pack animal / A type of billiards shot
7 "All the world's a ____. . ." / Software prototypes
8 Clothing store purchase, perhaps / Small digging tool
9 A river in Europe / ____ Without a Cause
10 Mike of boxing fame / Slang

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* San Diego baseballer
* Prognosticators
* Explode
* Twist, as a wet towel
* A lot
* Emit light
* Era
* Prop for Bob Ross
* ____ Orange (herbicide)
* Hurt
* Aids a criminal
* Swap
* Blood of the Greek gods
* Sired, Biblically
* Los Angeles Lakers guard Stephenson
* Device for detecting submarines and such
* Violent public displays
* A type of billiards shot

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