Wordy Wednesday 300: Pent Words 60

WORDY WEDNESDAY #298

FOXGERYPTICS 15 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #299

HEX PATHFINDER 20 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #300

PENT WORDS 60

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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 Concern for Al Gore / The Mediterranean, for one
2 Ideas / It may be pierced
3 Slowly moving mass of frozen water / "Gloria in excelsis ____"
4 Glowing hot coal / Aired again
5 Certain marine mollusk / 2003 comedy starring Will Ferrell as Buddy
6 "The Sheik of ____" (song sung by The Beatles) / Spooky
7 Not on time / Google's web browser
8 Happens / ____ of Dogs (2018 film)
9 Texas city that calls itself the "Storybook Capital of America" / Ginger ____
10 Fail to have / Texas city in which Friday Night Lights takes place

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* More frigid
* Chemist Marie
* Arias who played Jerry on Disney XD's Kickin' It
* Landlady Helen of Three's Company
* Calm
* Eyes amorously
* ". . . for ____ waves of grain. . ."
* Vertices, as of a graph
* Support Your ____ Sheriff! (1969 Western)
* "What's it all about, ____?" (Cher lyrics)
* Certain hardwood tree
* ____ the Riveter
* Unit of weight for precious stones
* John of tractor fame
* Hand-to-hand fight
* Red condiment in a Mexican restaurant
* Smilla's ____ of Snow (1997 movie)
* Sports Night creator Sorkin

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