Wordy Wednesday 555: Pent Words 111

WORDY WEDNESDAY #553
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 23 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #554
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #555
PENT WORDS 111
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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 A type of billiards shot / Gather
2 Michele who played Rachel Berry on Glee / The time and place a book’s events happen in
3 Collectible for an animation fan, say / One of five New York City subdivisions
4 Word before “shirt” or “rehearsal” / Passover wafer
5 Section of a circumference / Entices
6 Horned African mammal, for short / “____ Home Alabama” (Lynyrd Skynyrd song)
7 In a perfect world / Make a choice
8 Shrill scream / Billionaire Musk
9 0.00001% of a joule / Captain ____ (Marvel character)
10 One who leads prayers in a mosque / Plane for dropping explosives
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, for one
* Use a broom
* It supports a painter’s canvas
* A skateboarding maneuver
* Moon who married Rob Zombie in 2002
* “____ Grove” (The Doobie Brothers song)
* Gin’s partner
* Not large
* An orange yellow hue
* Ballroom dance of Cuban origin
* The color blue, in heraldry
* “Float like a butterfly, ____ like a bee”
* Dull people
* The ____ & the Papas
* Naive rural resident
* Many a Twitch user
* Conifer of the pine family
* Salmon relative

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Charlton of 55 Days at Peking (1963)"?

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