Wordy Wednesday 315: Pent Words 63

WORDY WEDNESDAY #313

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #314

FILL-IN CROSSWORD 8 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #315

PENT WORDS 63

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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 Moisten cooking meat, say / Square or rectangle, for one
2 Fill with air, as a balloon / Billiard player's stick
3 Psi's predecessor / Unscrupulous lawyer
4 One loop around a track / Have
5 Long (for) / With one's hand on one's hip and one's elbow outward
6 Will of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / 2019 and 2020, for two
7 Annual publication of sorts / Freudian concern
8 ____ sergeant / Astronaut Shriver
9 The ____ Hungry Caterpillar / One with a freezer, perhaps
10 Beta's predecessor / Part of a flower
   
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Boot-shaped nation
* Wine-making need
* Like a 45-degree angle
* Sacred song
* The Lion King protagonist
* Large-headed African mammal, briefly
* Members of a jury, perhaps
* Actor Welles
* Billy of the band Kansas
* Large violin relative
* Laughing mammal
* Permian ____
* Base eight
* Steppenwolf author Hermann
* Irritable
* You may stake one
* Move furtively
* Consumer advocate Nader

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