HALLOWEEN MONTH! PUZZLE #46: Pent Words 4: The Return of Michael Myers

HALLOWEEN MONTH!

PUZZLE #46

PENT WORDS 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS

WARNING: The following puzzle does not actually contain any references to Michael Myers or any of the Halloween films; I just felt like adding a superfluous subtitle from a horror movie to this puzzle for no good reason.

For this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (they’re kinda like Tetris pieces, except they’re areas made up of five squares each) and put 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, reading left to right beginning 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 above, the rows spell out CHINS, PARTY, and ANKLE, and the pentominoes spell out the words CHINA, STYLE, and PRANK.) Use the across answers to figure out where the pentominoes go.

Once you're done, combine the two unclued pentominoes to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a series of survival horror video games

ACROSS (Two answers per row)
1) Actor Boris who played the original Frankenstein's monster / Monday night WWE show
2) A billion years / Gran _____ (series of Playstation racing games)
3) Action word / Paint's protective coat
4) "Hallowed Be ___ Name" / Yao Ming played for this NBA team
5) "Japanese" logic puzzle that originated in America as "Number Place" / Hitchcock film edited to look like it was done in one take
6) S'mores' crackers / Cenozoic or Mesozoic
7) How great minds think / "Freak on a _____" (KoЯn music video with an unstoppable bullet)
8) Just say no to / Two tablets a day, maybe
9) By way of / _____ Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
10) Shooter/survival horror game subtitled Shadow of Chernobyl / When tripled, song by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Sideshow star (that I might've already mentioned in one of the "Across" clues. Whoops!)
* Babbling stream
* The first female black billionaire
* Plankton's computer wife from SpongeBob SquarePants
* Black ink item (as opposed to red ink)
* Jinx that may befall athletes appearing on Madden NFL's covers
* Villainous Marvel org. named after a multi-headed beast
* Mr. Strauss' jeans
* Article in Harper's Magazine
* Common yoga position
* "Cliffs of _____" (Rock instrumental featured in Guitar Hero III)
* Poem with 17 syllables
* Cotton candy, pretty much
* Even _____ (Weird Al album featuring "Fat")
* Super Smash Bros. game for Gamecube
* Bad thing for a TV series to jump over
* Tiny island
* Blatant (HINT: Add a "C" to the front to get its opposite!)

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured that one out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!