Wordy Wednesday 320: Pent Words 64 & Wordy Wednesday 321: Drop It Like It's Hot

WORDY WEDNESDAY #318

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 4 (answer)

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Mark Ballinger **
Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Eric Maddy **
Kevin Orfield **
Michael Fleck **
Paul Thurmond **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #319

LOOSIE GOOSIE (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #320

PENT WORDS 64

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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 "'OK _____,' Responds 911 Operator As Man Calls Complaining Of Severe Chest Pains" (headline from Christian satirical news site The Babylon Bee) / Tragic Shakesperean king
2 Layout / There are nine in the board game Clue
3 Deacon / Stronghold
4 Artist Keith / Surreptitious release, as of confidential information
5 German name meaning "eagle" / Aquatic carnivorous mammal
6 Relating to love / Be nosy, perhaps
7 More secure / Machine in which an object is rotated and cut
8 Zero / A maneuver in the card game bridge
9 Greek god of war / Thor's Mjölnir, for one
10 Mammal's coat / "'This Is The ____ Lions And We'd Love To Sign You,' Says Giggling Trump On Yet Another Prank Call To Colin Kaepernick" (The Babylon Bee headline)
   
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Mistake
* Really, really bad mistake
* Shoplift, slangily
* Swiss ____
* Siddhartha author Hermann
* Word before "house" or "knife"
* Fragment of broken glass
* Word associated with alcoholic strength
* Cupcake-making need
* Avis rival
* Country singer Haggard
* Hearts ____ (1992-1995 sitcom)
* Humorist Pratchett
* Subway
* Like a Keebler worker
* ____ position (a position in yoga)
* Mathematician Leonhard
* Virtue

WORDY WEDNESDAY #321

DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT

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The meta answer is a three-word song title relevant to the puzzle's theme.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Crypticrostic!
* Patron Puzzle #67, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is a diagramless crossword.

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