Wordy Wednesday 610: Pent Words 122

WORDY WEDNESDAY #608
SUDOKUROSTIC 3 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #609
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 9 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #610
PENT WORDS 122
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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 NES game in which Bill Rizer and Lance Bean fight terrorists / Wrecking ____ (NES game in which Mario and Luigi destroy a building site)
2 Company that owns Old Navy / “Gimme ____” (Rolling Stones song)
3 Ratchet’s robot partner / “____ Man” (Village People song)
4 Awaken / Slide in a chair, say
5 ____ claims court / Come up
6 Ambulance noisemaker / Title role for Tyler Perry
7 Unyielding / Once and for ____
8 Sunrise direction / “____ Man” (Elton John song)
9 Baking ____ / Deviation from a course
10 Large shrimp / Titleholder
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• South American ruminant
• Murder, She ____ (1984-1996 series starring Angela Lansbury)
• “Those who can, do; those who can’t, ____”
• Budweiser alternative
• English liberal philosopher John
• Ancient Greek fabulist
• Wicker fish basket
• Perfect
• Tricks of the ____
• Wooden item on a pirate ship
• Common Christian symbol
• Sea devil
• Cuban drum
• Site of a sporting event
• ____ Together (2004-2007 Comedy Central series)
• Contents of a can
• Vagrant
• Calliope and Erato, for two

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* What's a 6-letter word for "The Big Bang ____ (2007-2019 sitcom)"?

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