Wordy Wednesday 514: Diagramless Crossword 10 & Wordy Wednesday 515: Pent Words 103

WORDY WEDNESDAY #512
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 11 (answer)
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Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Jason Boomer **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #513
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 12 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #514
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 10
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This crossword has 58 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.
ACROSS
1 “While My Guitar Gently ____”
6 Andy Warhol’s movement: 2 wds.
7 Rapper Tyler, The ____
8 Excessively
9 Longoria of Desperate Housewives
10 First part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
16 Barkin of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
17 Goof up
18 Prank
21 Talks
23 Young lady
25 Long fish
26 Word after “income” or “sales”
27 Assist
29 The Wild Bunch (1969) director Peckinpah
31 McElhenney of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
33 Sloth in the Ice Age films
35 You might wear one while dining on ribs
37 25 Words or Less emcee Meredith
39 Bear, in Barcelona
40 Spigot on a cask
42 Killed, as a dragon
43 Second part of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
47 Hot tub
48 Schumer of stand-up
49 Pays attention
52 Give drugs to a druggie, for example
53 New ____, India
DOWN
1 “____ is me!”
2 Grp. concerned with pollution
3 Consumed
4 Brigham Young University’s city
5 ____ World (2022 Disney film)
6 Poetry’s opposite
7 Gathering of comic fans, briefly
8 Big name in toy trucks
10 ____ Side Story
11 Beto O’Rourke’s birthplace: 2 wds.
12 Bledel of Gilmore Girls
13 Pod vegetable
14 Unit of work
15 Important time periods
19 Antenna
20 “Conga” singer Estefan
22 Bro or sis
24 Loo
28 Featherbrain
30 Young lady
32 You can go out with one
34 Vehicle pulled by huskies
36 Sheepish sound
38 One of Santa’s helpers
41 Flat two-dimensional surface in geometry
44 Express a view
45 Pertaining to a sniffing organ
46 They’re twice as wide as ens
50 “Quite frankly”, in a text message
51 Peyton Manning’s brother

WORDY WEDNESDAY #515
PENT WORDS 103
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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 Crustacean that’s often the “Maine” dish / Doze
2 Prophet whose name means “salvation” in Hebrew / Came up
3 Ginger ____ / Pommel horse user
4 “Do ____ others. . .” / Eucalyptus-eating marsupials
5 Sprang / Item supporting an injured arm, perhaps
6 Operatic solo / Native American tribe whose language was used by WWII code talkers
7 Sounds / With !, onomatopoeic title of Terry Pratchett’s 34th Discworld novel
8 Male merino / Starting the pot
9 Cow’s nipple / Hiss of meat being fried
10 Unaccompanied / “____ Seems to Be the Hardest Word” (Elton John song)
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Condiment magnate Henry John ____
* Daniel of City Slickers (1991)
* Hillbilly ____ (2020 film)
* Eagle’s claw
* Speak pompously
* Frequent
* Devil ray
* Motortruck, to a Brit
* ____ Shrugged (Ayn Rand novel)
* Grey wolves
* Herb related to the carrot
* Become educated
* Church projections
* Sailor’s “Stop!”
* Shoptalk
* Clothing measurements
* Certain African ungulate
* Drawbridges can help you get across them

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 6-letter word for "State in which Area 51 is located"?

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