Wordy Wednesday 530: Pent Words 106 & Wordy Wednesday 531: Framelinks 16

WORDY WEDNESDAY #528
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #529
HEX PATHFINDER 33 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #530
PENT WORDS 106
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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 Sesame, for one / Line on a weather map, perhaps
2 Not a moment too ____ / City in Penobscot County, Maine
3 A creditor’s right to hold a debtor’s property / Haunting
4 “____, won’t you blow your horn?” / Super Mario ____ (2015 video game in which players can create their own Mario levels)
5 Giant dust cloud in space / “Hit the ____ Jack” (Ray Charles hit)
6 Male offspring / Foxy
7 ____ Pio (2022 film in which Shia LaBeouf plays an Italian saint) / Funny
8 Set up, as computer software / Sweet potato
9 Gets a point / “Lone” shape on the Texas flag
10 Annoy / Air Jordan manufacturer
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Assent
* A Night at the ____ (Queen album)
* Preserved by adding salt, as meat
* Daniel of Home Alone
* Favor, slangily
* Ohio city known as the “Rubber Capital of the World”
* Long-necked wading bird
* 2020 title role for Liu Yifei
* Australian canine
* Street Fighter character M. ____
* Long lock of hair
* Political gathering
* Senseless
* Seat in a park, often
* Radio Flyer vehicle, briefly
* Andean pack animal
* Listerine alternative
* Zaragoza’s country

WORDY WEDNESDAY #531
FRAMELINKS 16
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Fill in the empty squares in the diagram with the given letters to form words.
Arrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

A A A A A A B C C C C C D E E E E E E E E E E E G H H H I I L L L L M M M M M
N N N N O O O O O O O P R R R R R S S S T T T T T T U V W

 

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