Wordy Wednesday 405: Pent Words 81

WORDY WEDNESDAY #400
PENT WORDS 80 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #401
FOXGERYPTICS 16 (answer)

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Patrick Jordan **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #402
ANAWORDSEARCH 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #403
CODEWORDS 14 (answer)

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Stephen Potter **
Kevin Orfield **
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Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #404 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #405
PENT WORDS 81
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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 “But it's all right now, in fact, it's a ____!” (Rolling Stones lyric) / Participates in a parade, say
2 Dog doc / The North Star
3 Read an online forum without posting / Interlocked
4 Its leaves are used to make cigars and cigarettes / Israeli politician ____ Ariel
5 Contemptible / Missing, as from class
6 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s ____ / Make cookies and pies, say
7 1969 Disney movie about a raccoon / ____ with the punches
8 Periodic table item / Bill who got his “Science Guy” nickname from John Keister
9 Ulna’s partner / Alternative to stairs, perhaps
10 Sum of money payable at regular intervals / Pigpen

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Televised again
* Maxwell portrayed by Don Adams
* ____ dot
* Robber ____
* Common courtroom sighting
* Dull
* Leung of Glee
* ____ sprawl
* Musical with the song “Pity the Child”
* Opposite of full
* Islamic holy city
* Member of an Alaskan indigenous group
* Consume water, for example
* They list the offerings of restaurants
* Marisa of My Cousin Vinny
* Ice cube containers
* Ascend
* Ascend

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's an 8-letter word for "'____ Waltz' (song associated with Harry Truman)"?

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