Wordy Wednesday 280: Pent Words 56

WORDY WEDNESDAY #278

DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 5 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #279

A TRIBUTE TO THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #280

PENT WORDS 56

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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 Building material made from sun-dried earth and straw / Carving knife brand famous from infomercials
2 Route / ____ the bottom of the barrel
3 Fermented honey beverage / Classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus ____
4 Guns & ____ (magazine) / Relatives of cellos
5 Go bad, as a check / Nothing, in Spanish
6 "Twist and ____" (Isley Brothers song) / Transition
7 Interval between the "do" at the bottom and the "do" at the top of a scale / Projection in a church
8 California senator Kamala / Go on Nutrisystem, say
9 Morocco ____ (cartoon character) / Like sloth or gluttony
10 Frighten / The Price is ____ (long-running game show)

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Start
* Not behind
* Gain custody of, perhaps
* "Drat!"
* Sesame Street's grouch
* The British ____
* Goodbye
* Lucky item
* Not heavy
* Layer of the earth's atmosphere
* Cuban ballroom dance
* Deduce
* "Get out of here!"
* Old saw
* Book of maps
* Perturb
* Not abridged
* ____ 43 (2013 film)

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