Wordy Wednesday 394: Codewords 13 & Wordy Wednesday 395: Pent Words 79

WORDY WEDNESDAY #386
SECTION SIX 38 (answer)

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Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #387
CODEWORDS 12 (answer)

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Kevin Orfield **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #388
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE (answer)

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Mark Ballinger **
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Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
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Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #389
ANACROSSWORD 23 (answer)

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Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #390
PENT WORDS 78 (answer)

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James Haddad **
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Karen Spencer **
Kyle Nils **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Bo & Becky Green **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #391
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 5 (answer)

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Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #392
ANACROSSWORD 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #393
CRYPTICROSTIC 12 (hint)

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DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #394
CODEWORDS 13
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #395
PENT WORDS 79
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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 Stratagem / Giorgio of Italian fashion
2 Ginger ____ / Heartfelt
3 Run-down urban area / Sci-fi writer ____ C. Clarke
4 Nonreligious / Wildebeest
5 Place for a monitor, perhaps / Former Alaska governor Sarah
6 2006-2014 series about Shawn Spencer / The ____ Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008 Disney Channel series)
7 Site / What the author wishes to never see more of (not even a flake of it!) after that February 2021 storm that left much of Texas without electricity
8 ____ cordiale (informal political alliance) / Color, as Easter eggs
9 Cremated remains / "On the Road ____" (Willie Nelson hit)
10 Supply's partner / 25 Words or ____ (game show hosted by Meredith Vieira)

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Appeals
* Tithe amount
* Idlewild author Nick
* Subject of the December 7, 1972 photograph The Blue Marble
* Actor Williams of Happy Days
* Varnish ingredient
* ____ Hadron Collider
* Come together
* Bark chips used in gardening, perhaps
* Sits around doing nothing
* ____-depressive
* Track and field legend Jesse
* Faithful
* Outmoded
* Dropsy
* DVR button
* Weighing device
* Any game show episode seen on Buzzr, for example

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Hitchcock who directed The 39 Steps"?
* What's a 15-letter, 2-word answer for "Board game invented in Germany (not Asia) under the name Sternhalma"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!