Wordy Wednesday 425: Pent Words 85

WORDY WEDNESDAY #422
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 7 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #423
PATHFINDER 23 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #424
CODEWORDS 15 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #425
PENT WORDS 85
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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 Mammalian feature / ____ 5 (1993-1998 sci-fi series)

2 Comedian Mulaney / Pincher bug

3 Mouth, slangily / Freshly made over

4 Become adjusted (to) / “Trip Through Your ____” (U2 song)

5 Emerald, for example / Dishonor

6 Personal belief / Earl Grey, for example

7 Miner’s target / Rot

8 Piercing item / Morally rigid, like “religious scholar” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi according to The Washington Post in 2019

9 Word for a person, place, thing, or idea / Prince of ____ (video game franchise)

10 South America’s third largest country / Incontinence pad brand you can “rely” on

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Negatively charged particle

* Fouled up

* Long narrow sea arm bordered by steep cliffs

* Moisten cooking meat, say

* Jeweler’s lens

* Item in the Tor logo

* Local ordinance

* Become mature, as fruit

* ____ Cowboy (1980 film with Debra Winger as Sissy)

* Spin quickly

* Excessive moralist

* Honking waterfowls

* Junkies

* Large shrimp

* Verboten

* Bird’s nest on a cliff

* In the lead

* “A mind is a terrible thing to ____”

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Fear ____ (reality series)"?

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