Wordy Wednesday 650: Pent Words 130

WORDY WEDNESDAY #648
KEVIN'S UNFINISHED PUZZLES AT HOME (answer)

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Cathy Bowen **
Christian H.P. **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers *
Russ Kale **
Jason Boomer **
John Bulten **
Kevin Orfield **
Marie desJardins *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #649
LOGICROSSWORD 15 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #650
PENT WORDS 130
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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 Did some hair care / “To thine own ____ be true”
2 Shrek, for one / Cured air-dried sausage
3 ____ friends forever / Former late night host Johnny
4 Geometric oval / A Brit’s afternoon drink
5 A synthetic rubber / Bathroom item
6 One who alters garments / Feudal slave
7 Constricting snakes / Honolulu’s state
8 Pay it ____ / Lounge around, with “out”
9 Low step-in shoe / Festive party
10 ____ Champion (early NES fighting game) / Elbow or knee, for example
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Thin cracker
• Baker’s need
• Direct the course of
• Fast food order of a burger, fries, and a drink, for one
• Relinquish, as a right
• “Remember the ____”
• Stringed instrument in bluegrass music
• Broken piece of glass
• Jeweled headband
• Forbidden
• Name of the female protagonist in the Twilight books
• Frighten
• Glorify
• Loses traction, as on ice
• Geographical depression
• Ill-fated Ford model named after Henry Ford’s son
• ____ for the wear
• Meet and ____

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* Who played Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)?

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