Wordy Wednesday 580: Pent Words 116

WORDY WEDNESDAY #578
ANACROSSWORD 37 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #579
FRAMELINKS 21 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #580
PENT WORDS 116
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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 Deceptive act / Big name in lighters and pens
2 Frankenstein author Mary / Spigot in a cask
3 Long, blunt-ended cigar / ____ Straits (“Walk of Life” band)
4 Marks on a rancher’s cattle / Ask for ID
5 Nest on a cliff / Errand-running lackey
6 Male flower organ / Peru’s capital
7 Type of shellfish in Lewis Carroll’s poem The Walrus and the Carpenter / EarthBound protagonist who’s playable in the Super Smash Bros. series
8 Entreaty / ____ stick (cell phone accessory)
9 Homily / Produce a design using acid
10 ____ John, M.D. (medical drama that spun off from M*A*S*H) / Grain used in bread and whiskey
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Low point
* Sheet of microfilm in a library
* The ____ Crusader (Batman)
* Nag or Nagaina of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, for one
* The Boy and the ____ (2023 animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
* Burns lightly
* Green citrus fruits
* Painter Velázquez
* Account ledger entry
* Japanese egg noodles
* Gasoline ____ (comic by Jim Scancarelli)
* Painter Claude
* Bind, as with long pieces of leather
* Actor Daniel of Home Alone (1990)
* Rub out, as erroneous pencil marks
* Ancient Greek fabulist
* Painter’s prop
* Devour quickly, with “down”

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