Wordy Wednesday 545: Pent Words 109

WORDY WEDNESDAY #543
ANACROSSWORD 31 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #544
TOUCHWORD 28 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #545
PENT WORDS 109
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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 Catty name of a Mercury model / Oscar’s successor
2 Rotate / Clues
3 Certain Eurasian weasel / Not early
4 Giza sighting / Writing implement
5 White ____ (cocktail) / Viral disease, briefly
6 Gas cloud in space / The Legend of Zelda protagonist
7 Bonnie’s partner in crime / Mesa relative
8 Newton-John of Grease (1978) / 1992 presidential candidate Perot
9 Confess / ____ Trick (rock band)
10 Pollen-producing flower organ / Pointed item at a pub
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Wayne’s sidekick in Wayne’s World (1992)
* Princess of Wales honored in Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997”
* ____ the town red
* Copy and ____
* Came up
* Faulty
* Dried plum
* Independently
* Loretta Lynn’s father, for one
* ____ pulpit
* Reheats in the microwave, slangily
* Comic Hedberg
* Put right
* Two-person automobile
* Place for a pin, perhaps
* Fire-starting item
* Make one’s first appearance
* Very angry

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Fred of the sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters"?
* What's the name of Charlie Brown’s sister?

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