Wordy Wednesday 700: Pent Words 140

WORDY WEDNESDAY #700
PENT WORDS 140
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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 “Harder, Better, ____, Stronger” (Daft Punk song) / Approach
2 With The, historical drama series created by Dallas Jenkins / Harp relative
3 Scuffle / Namesake of a number representing a speed’s ratio to the speed of sound
4 Brown pigment from a cuttlefish / Composer of “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
5 Kindergarten ____ (1990 film) / Mountain known in Tibet as Chomolungma
6 Long solid piece, as of candy / “A house ____ against itself. . .”
7 Judges’ garments / One-twentieth of a ream
8 Underlying ideological program / Stead
9 Larson of Captain Marvel (2019) / Posture
10 “Do ____ others. . .” / Counter the effect of
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• The ____ of Life (1979-1988 sitcom)
• Oral-B alternative
• Daniel of Home Alone
• Hooded snake
• ____ of humor
• What some marbles are made from
• Score of 40-40
• Producing strong mental images
• Greater part of a burden
• Ahead of time
• Building material whose name is Spanish for “mudbrick”
• Fall bloomer
• Laurie of The Hustler (1961)
• What calamari is made from
• Foreign
• “____ in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera song)
• Leave no ____ unturned
• Word before “pointer” or “printer”

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