PUZZLE #257
PENT WORDS 14
For this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (they’re sorta 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: A two-word phrase
ACROSS (Two answers per row)
1) Pointy weapon held by Elmer Fudd in What's Opera, Doc?
_____ Fantasy VII (acclaimed PlayStation 1 RPG)
2) Last name of Andy Griffith's character in The Andy Griffith Show
Rotary phone feature
3) Rock genre associated with Soundgarden and Alice in Chains
Newspaper comic that's about birds (and not footwear)
4) Singer Osbourne who's "going off the rails on a crazy train"
Bested in a footrace
5) Fuse with a blowtorch
Cheesing off, with "up"
6) Catch a crook
Doug Funnie's blue best friend
7) "Oh, yes! Absolutely!"
_____ in distress (overused cliché)
8) Type of comedy performed by Drew Carey and George Carlin: Hyph.
Mr. Headroom of '80s television
9) Hand-sewn blanket
Complete carbon copy
10) Bagel's shape
"_____ Turvy" (song from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Mr. Krabs' daughter from SpongeBob SquarePants (or an oyster's gem)
* Pizza part that Pizza Hut sometimes stuffs with cheese
* The Legend of _____: Link's Awakening (Game Boy game remade in 2019)
* Honda's Civic or Accord, e.g.
* Kolkata's country
* Premium movie channel that airs Outlander
* Redheaded simian, as shortened by many crossword creators
* Sits down heavily onto a couch, say
* Graduation garments
* Pink Floyd song where coins and cash registers can be heard
* Ecuador's capital
* Actor Tim who voices Buzz Lightyear
* Good for something
* Pop like a big bubble
* Top ten single for Frankie Goes to Hollywood
* Straight from the oven
* 10 _____ or less (grammatically incorrect checkout sign)
* Radiohead singer Thom
Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, 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 it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!
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