Wordy Wednesday 524: Anacrossword 30 & Wordy Wednesday 525: Pent Words 105

WORDY WEDNESDAY #522
DIV IDE DIN TOT RIP LES 14 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #523
ANACROSSWORD 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #524
ANACROSSWORD 30
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• Occurring every year
• Casino card game related to chemin de fer
• Mixture
• Portuguese-Brazilian dancer famous for wearing a fruit hat: 2 wds.
• Cindy of Fair Game (1995)
• “Good ____ make good neighbors”
• 2006 animated film about a dancing penguin: 2 wds.
• Cerebral
• Vicious mammal whose thick skin allows it to raid beehives undeterred by bee stings: 2 wds.
• ____ crab
• Gas in a sign, perhaps
• Norway’s capital
• California Congressman Adam
• Tiny bit of facial hair just below the lower lip: 2 wds.
• “Riders on the ____” (hit for The Doors)
• Sarandon of Thelma & Louise (1991)
• Zion National Park’s state

WORDY WEDNESDAY #525
PENT WORDS 105
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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 House of the ____ (HBO series since 2022) / Jerk
2 Head-scratcher / Buddies
3 Become wrinkly like a raisin / Baseball great Ott
4 Doctor ____ in the Multiverse of Madness / ____ Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
5 Maker of the Telstar video game consoles / Entreat
6 Have not / Brit’s afternoon drinking vessel, perhaps
7 Ketchum’s first name in the Pokémon anime / Merlot merchant
8 Surname of the actor who played Hercules in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys / Sheepish sound
9 “Dancing Queen” group / Injured part of skin
10 Certain arctic dwelling / “Go down, ____, way down in Egypt’s land. . .”
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* First name of the actor who played Hercules in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
* Torture
* Sniffing organs
* Slant
* The Mississippi or the Colorado
* Sharp
* 16:9 or 4:3
* Rodeo rope
* ____ rehearsal
* Bundles of hay
* Partner of Barnes
* 1989-1997 sitcom starring Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox
* Tree whose leaf is on the Canadian flag
* Jewish law scholar
* Joint between the foot and the leg
* ____ Us (2018 social deduction video game)
* What an insomniac has difficulty getting
* Melancholy

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Presidential surname shared by Cindy and Ricky of The B-52’s"?

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