Wordy Wednesday 285: Pent Words 57

WORDY WEDNESDAY #282

TOUCHWORD 10 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Tyler Hinman **
Bryce Herdt **
Jason Boomer **
Michael Tang **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #283

HEX PATHFINDER 19 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Tyler Hinman **
Bryce Herdt **
Michael Tang **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #284

TOUCHWORD 11 (hint)

As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #285

PENT WORDS 57

(click here for a PDF version)

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 ___ the Picture (1991 Nickelodeon game show) / "____ Star" (Deep Purple song)
2 A poisonous element / Number of rows and columns in this puzzle
3 Slanted surface / Rub out, as a pencil mistake
4 Arctic garment / Impressionist painter Oscar-Claude
5 Emulate the man in "guess i'll die" memes / ____-watch
6 Pointedly critical remark / Actor Michael of Bonanza
7 Kept out of a game, as a sports team member / Former Metro manufacturer
8 Raise to maturity / Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis ____
9 Pseudonym / City on the west coast of Florida
10 As I Lay ____ (William Faulkner novel) / Mammal with webbed feet

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Small plant in a garden, perhaps
* Toothpaste brand
* Dull
* Gold brick
* Over the ____ (comic strip)
* Less mean
* Voice in a choir
* Inventor Howe
* ____ of War (video game)
* Name of a farmer's dog in a children's song
* Sly 3: Honor ____ Thieves
* Tow truck in the Cars movies
* Kid
* Inexpensive
* Sports venue
* Upper part of the leg
* ____ plug
* Run off to secretly marry

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "One of 28 in a gaming set"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!