Wordy Wednesday 270: Pent Words 54

WORDY WEDNESDAY #268

HEX PATHFINDER 16 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #269

HEX PATHFINDER 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #270

PENT WORDS 54

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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 Charge with a crime / Flow slowly
2 A Bantu language / A keyboard key
3 Spelling contest / Not ____ Teen Movie (2001 movie)
4 Newsman Dan / Company associated with Sonic the Hedgehog
5 Lazy / Grammy winner Keys
6 Word before "cube" or "cream" / What you might do to your car windows on a cold day
7 ____ to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019 movie) / Add a program to a computer, say
8 Cleanse something soapy, perhaps / Bugs that bug dogs and cats
9 The Nile, for one / Deathly pale
10 ____ We Dance (2004 romantic comedy) / Fish-eating swimmer related to the weasel

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Book of maps
* ____ con carne
* Three strands of hair tied together
* "When ____ Eyes Are Smiling"
* Striped horse relative
* Clark's partner
* Actor Zac
* Thing of the past, perhaps
* Breastplate associated with Zeus and Athena
* ____ in the pan
* Blood of the Greek gods
* Ration
* A keyboard key
* Far from fresh
* Some symbols on a music staff
* New Delhi's country
* Not behind
* You Were ____ Really Here (2017 drama film)

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