Wordy Wednesday 265: Pent Words 53 & Wordy Wednesday 266: Section Six 26

WORDY WEDNESDAY #263

FRAMELINKS 10 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #264

FRAMELINKS 11 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #265

PENT WORDS 53

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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 "Werewolves of ____" (Warren Zevon song that sounds an awful lot like a Lynyrd Skynyrd song) / Hideous
2 Space ____ (Vlaada Chvátil board game) / Comprehend
3 Deathly pale / "____ Paradise" (Weird Al song)
4 Squelch / ____ & Order: Special Victims Unit
5 Common sandwich condiment, briefly / Smells
6 Thick / Patreon CEO Jack
7 Catlike / 12 months
8 Shoptalk / Novelist Wharton
9 A new ____ on life / Sub-detecting device
10 Triple ____ (certain liqueur) / "Sweet Home ____" (Lynyrd Skynyrd song that sounds an awful lot like a Warren Zevon song)

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Came up
* John, Paul, George, and Ringo, for four
* Kid
* Symbol in writing
* ____ Island (former island in New York City)
* Becoming author Michelle
* Stereotypical cop's breakfast item
* 100 centimes, in Algeria
* La ____ (Milan opera house)
* John of tractor fame
* Religion with Mohammed as its prophet
* Marijuana, slangily
* It's made from regenerated cellulose
* What an insomniac might count
* Person who prefers solitude
* Shoptalk
* "____ not, want not"
* Planet ____ (2006 miniseries)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #266

SECTION SIX 26

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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Common Wheel of Fortune category
2 Camera part
3 Murphy of The Haunted Mansion (2003)
4 The North Star
5 President Hoover
6 The Binding of ____: Rebirth

Ring 2
* Fast
* One more advanced in age
* Cog projections
* Piece of luggage, perhaps
* ____ Columbia

Ring 3
* Characteristics
* Spokesperson's pitch
* Absolutely hate
* Theft

Ring 4
* Layer
* Descendant of Jacob
* Newbery Medal winner Eleanor or crossword puzzle author Harvey

Ring 5
* Pittsburgh team
* Take a nap, say

Ring 6
* One of 26 in the English alphabet

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