Wordy Wednesday 410: Pent Words 82

WORDY WEDNESDAY #407
THIS PUZZLE IS 2 SHORT! (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #408
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 16 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #409
TOUCHWORD 20 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #410
PENT WORDS 82
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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 2012-2018 series with Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope / Bovine comment
2 Get ready to be photographed, say / Potion
3 Irritating skin sensation / Some wading birds
4 Bit of Warsaw wampum / Solitaire waste pile
5 Loosen shoelaces, say / With “the”, 2020 Taylor Swift hit that begins, “Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?”
6 Fleets of warships / Make a choice
7 Fought, as families / Berserk
8 Anger / Land for grazing
9 Pita bread sandwich / “Are we ____ fun yet?”
10 ____ Libre (2006 comedy film) / Jesus wore one made of thorns

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Wreak ____
* Interrogation response, possibly
* Courage
* Word on a triangular sign
* Give back, as loaned money
* All ____ Up! (2003-2008 Rugrats spin-off)
* Famed fabulist
* Italian shroud site
* Metal band Papa ____
* Pretend
* New ____, India
* Welles of Touch of Evil (1958)
* Sitcom title character Findlay
* American Olympic swimmer Mark
* Like the Islamic calendar, but not the Gregorian calendar
* Pursue secretly and obsessively
* Add fuel to, as a fire
* Boat for Pocahontas, perhaps

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What state's flag depicts a banner reading “Battle Born”?

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