Wordy Wednesday 444: Divided Into Columns 9 & Wordy Wednesday 445: Pent Words 89

WORDY WEDNESDAY #442
PATHFINDER 25 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #443
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As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's a hint. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #444
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 9
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Bitterness __ __ __ __ ___ __ __

           47 24 31 86 100 62 56

Camelion product __ __ __ __ __ ___ __

                 16 84 66 53 74 107 26

Symbol on a music staff, perhaps __ __ __ __

                                 58 07 43 75

Texas NBA team: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                       87 10 34 22 106 49 81 57 76 27 19 65 99 91 03

Faulty __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ __

       51 80 64 54 30 25 95 104 17

Woolly females ___ __ __ __

               105 93 63 04

Like sandpaper __ __ __ __ __ __

               90 60 38 45 37 29

____ Five-0 __ __ __ __ __ __

            78 68 42 85 21 05

Texas NBA team: 2 wds. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ __ __

                       28 79 92 41 33 02 72 83 48 23 15 101 46 36

Course for speeding cars, say __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                              44 67 70 20 09 98 13

Board game that’s an ancestor of Othello ___ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                         102 11 69 59 18 40 01

Texas NBA team: 3 wds. __ __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___

                       61 97 06 14 32 108 73 96 12 35 88 39 50 52 103

Treble speaker __ __ __ __ __ __ __

               89 55 71 77 08 94 82

WORDY WEDNESDAY #445
PENT WORDS 89
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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 Noisy device used to warn ships of hazards / ____ de cologne

2 Grocery shopper’s aid / Fiona of the Shrek movies is one

3 ____ collie / Dispense a beverage, for example

4 Wombs / Winner

5 Sports official, briefly / Treachery against one’s country’s government

6 ____ waffle / Guadalajara gold

7 A reddish brown hue / ____, Please (2013 video game)

8 Asiatic wild ass / Yearn (for)

9 The county seat of Ector County, Texas / Danish toy brand

10 Streep of Out of Africa / Not at all secret

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Six Feet ____ (2001-2005 HBO series)

* ____ force

* Gold brick

* Regions

* Witch’s prop

* Seize forcefully, as authority

* Parts of fishing rods

* “Part-Time ____” (Stevie Wonder hit)

* The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo ____

* Early wireless communications device

* Certain literary composition

* Enormous

* A leaf of a book

* ____ Jacks (cereal)

* Scandinavian

* Important historical time period

* Approaches

* Apt word spelled by the initials of the names of the Possessors, five spectral characters fought in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Tinker ____ Soldier Spy"?

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