Wordy Wednesday 365: Pent Words 73

WORDY WEDNESDAY #363

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #364

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #365

PENT WORDS 73

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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 ____, Nelly! (Nelly Furtado's debut album) / Four pecks

2 Canal connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea / Voluptuous

3 Kind of protein that aids processes like digestion / Roman emperor often anachronistically depicted with a fiddle

4 Matured, as fruit / Toupee, slangily

5 Pretty Maids All in a ____ (1971 murder mystery film) / Playing card brand that probably isn't popular with foxes: hyph.

6 ____ of the Year (1993 sports comedy) / Swiss psychiatrist Carl

7 Olympic sport for men since 1964 and for women since 1992 / Stylish

8 Area with the Recycle Bin icon in Windows, for example / Eat Drink Man Woman director Lee

9 On fire / Swiss ____ knife

10 Convey, as knowledge / The snake in Billy Gilman's "The Snake Song" falls in love with one

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Its blue variety is the state gemstone of Texas

* Gossipmonger

* Minecraft ____ (augmented reality Minecraft spin-off)

* ____ Line Is It Anyway? (improv comedy show)

* Type of airship associated with Goodyear advertising

* Mall sighting

* Modify, as a constitution

* Diamond in the ____

* Brimming with excitement, like a beehive

* ____ hippopotamus (small hippopotamus variety)

* "Just take those old records off the ____. . ." (Bob Seger lyric)

* Trial and ____

* ____ Sheldon (The Big Bang Theory spin-off)

* Country where the top 23 busiest train stations in the world are all located

* Roman province governed by Pontius Pilate

* Came up

* Pompeo of Grey's Anatomy

* Extract compressed computer files, say

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Tortilla brand with a bell in the logo"? 

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