Wordy Wednesday 370: Pent Words 74

WORDY WEDNESDAY #368

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #369

SERIOUS STUMPER BEFUDDLES MANY (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #370

PENT WORDS 74

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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 Country musician Kershaw who sang “Matches” / ____ Scope (1980 Nintendo arcade game) 

2 Goatee, for one / Grab the bull by the ____ 

3 Baseball ref / Disloyalty, as to a government 

4 The $100,000 ____ (game show) / Actress Thompson of Back to the Future 

5 Dragonriders of ____ / Country musician Jones who sang “Burn Your Playhouse Down” 

6 Country musician Paisley who sang “The Cigar Song” / Dormant 

7 How I Met Your ____ (2005-2014 sitcom) / Ostinato phrase in a piece of music 

8 Human-eating folkloric creature / Part of a T-shirt, but not a tank top 

9 Landlord’s client / Gateway ____ (St. Louis monument) 

10 Deer relative / Country musician McBride who sang “Independence Day” 

PENTOMINOES: 

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER 

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER 

* Crime that the country songs “Matches”, “Burn Your Playhouse Down”, “The Cigar Song”, and “Independence Day” have in common 

* ____ 6 (lodging chain) 

* Partner of gold and frankincense 

* ____ Lantern (2011 superhero movie) 

* Move furtively, perhaps 

* Austrian psychiatrist Alfred 

* It merged with Sears in 2005 

* Beautify 

* ____ Arlington, OH 

* The ____ Clause 3: The Escape Clause 

* Bouillon 

* ____ de Amigo (1999 arcade game with maraca-shaped controllers) 

* ____ Cody Banks (2003 movie) 

* M1 Garand, for one 

* Speak pompously 

* Bull in a ____ shop 

* Series of mountains 

* ____ Nest (1988-1995 sitcom) 

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What company removed "Cab" from its name in 2011? 

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