Wordy Wednesday 500: Pent Words 100

WORDY WEDNESDAY #497
HEX PATHFINDER 31 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #498
HEX PATHFINDER 32 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #499
ANAWORDSEARCH 4 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #500
PENT WORDS 100
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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 Butcher’s knife / Not bright
2 Persia, now / Austria’s capital
3 Psychiatrist Jung / A Brit’s afternoon drinking vessel
4 Like much modern plumbing / Summon, as a taxi
5 Top ____ (BBC series about cars since 2002) / Mock
6 Follow-up installment / For fear that
7 Loud metallic sound / Certain church official
8 Propels with oars / Kilt’s pattern, often
9 Certain violet / Yardstick relative
10 U-shaped fastener / Atlas Shrugged protagonist John
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Educate
* La Traviata composer
* ____ as a bell
* Magician Criss
* Was helpful to
* Red button on a Nintendo 64 controller
* Boston ____ (2004-2008 ABC series)
* Metalworking tool that’s often dropped on cartoon characters
* Boredom
* Hockey infraction
* Fervor
* Pacify
* Harry Potter and the ____ of the Phoenix
* Painter’s stand
* Shock jock Howard
* Watchful
* Kingly topper
* Spaghetti or ravioli

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 15-letter, 2-word answer for "2022 horror movie in which three friends get locked in a spooky costume store"?
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