Wordy Wednesday 715: Pent Words 143

WORDY WEDNESDAY #713
CODEWORDS 36 (answer)

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Joseph DeVincentis **
Russ Kale **
Sam Levitin **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Pavel Curtis **
Randy Rogers *
Ryan Faley **
Steve Levy **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #714
MINI TOUCHWORD 16 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #715
PENT WORDS 143
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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 Excerpt / Like a successful climber vis-à-vis a mountain
2 Lift up / “Neither cast ye your pearls before ____. . .” (Matthew 7:6)
3 Circle of light / On ____ of (representing)
4 ____ of concept / Cavalry sword
5 Star Trek: The ____ Generation / Enormous swarms
6 Williams of the San Francisco 49ers / Large farm
7 ____ acid / Drama set to music
8 Complain / Riding in an inflatable torus
9 Fuzzy ____ / Los Angeles mayor Bass
10 Rosalind’s lover in As You Like It / “If You Love Somebody ____ Them Free” (1985 hit for Sting)
PENTOMINOES:
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Ella of The Idea of You (2024)
• Pituitary ____
• Despise
• Came up
• Group of soldiers
• Less
• Baker’s garment
• Comic Silverman
• Humpback ____
• Fold in a skirt
• Adhere
• Something beyond what’s necessary
• Express a viewpoint
• Austrian economist Ludwig von ____
• ____ provocateur
• ____ as a daisy
• Frequently
• Parts of ears

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* What's an 11-letter, 2-word answer for "Sci-fi series about Dr. Sam Beckett"?

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