Wordy Wednesday 355: Pent Words 71

WORDY WEDNESDAY #353

HEX PATHFINDER 22 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #354

TOUCHWORD 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #355

PENT WORDS 71

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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 Neighbor of Turkey / Peculiar 
2 Layer, as of a wedding cake / Crazy ____ (card game) 
3 Carrie who played Princess Leia / Leave out 
4 ____ valley / Wildebeest 
5 Comedian Gottfried / Golfer Ernie 
6 Sigmund and the ____ Monsters / Grasshopper relative 
7 1995 Martin Scorsese film / Dragon's ____ (1983 arcade game) 
8 ____ wolf (South American canine resembling a fox on stilts) / WWF No ____ (2000 wrestling video game) 
9 Extraordinary ability / Popular lunch meat 
10 Have something in common, perhaps / Moray, for one 

PENTOMINOES: 
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER 
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER 
* Icy 
* Garfield ____ Garfield (webcomic adapted from the newspaper comic Garfield) 
* Item tossed in Scotland 
* Silly 
* Women's fitness magazine 
* Mushrooms and such 
* Animal known as the ship of the desert 
* Reasons to call a plumber, perhaps 
* Rascal 
* Mars vehicle 
* Fuming 
* Chex ____ (1996 first-person shooter game that replaces the violence of Doom with cereal) 
* Texas city named after a President 
* Cylindrical rod 
* ____ Wolfhound 
* "Rhythm of the ____" (DeBarge song) 
* It may be Socratic 
* Parts of molecules 

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Beverage brand based in, surprisingly enough, New York"?

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