Wordy Wednesday 480: Pent Words 96

WORDY WEDNESDAY #478
BONING UP ON MATH (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #479
FRAMELINKS 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #480
PENT WORDS 96
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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 Sandwich cookie brand / Central part, as of an apple

2 Disney character voiced by Paige O’Hara / Start

3 Examine carefully / Deed

4 Lucille of I Love Lucy / Harvesting implement

5 Horne who played Glenda the Good in The Wiz (1978) / Facade

6 Place formerly occupied by a predecessor / Certain deciduous tree

7 Nook / “Let them eat ____”

8 Deer relative / Certain pastry

9 Expel / Whitaker who played Zuri in Black Panther (2018)

10 Danger / Star Trek: ____ Decks (animated series since 2020)

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Head over ____

* Dog breed famously favored by Queen Elizabeth II

* Three-masted Mediterranean ship

* Pisa has a leaning one

* ____ the Gungeon (2016 video game)

* Comical

* Pompous gait

* Misanthrope

* Zondervan offering

* Sites for vampire bites

* Absolutely love

* Spud

* Rescued

* Not below

* Certain African predator

* Far from fresh

* Jeweler’s magnifier

* Ruffle

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What video game princess is named after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife?

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