PUZZLE #280: Pent Words 15

PUZZLE #280

PENT WORDS 15

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 video game from the '90s

ACROSS (Two answers per row)

1) Nokia 3310, e.g.

    Whose Line Is It Anyway? regular Mochrie

2) Tampa Bay's baseball team

    Aladdin and Jasmine fly on it while singing "A Whole New World"

3) Loosen laces

    Faygo or Fanta, for example

4) "Her name is _____ and she dances on the sand" (Duran Duran lyrics)

    Cackling comedienne Diller

5) Judi Dench's title

    He tawt he taw a puddy tat

6) Monstro from Disney's Pinocchio, for one

    Brawl between Mortal Kombat characters

7) "Woof!"

    Hitchcock film or a U2 song

8) Actor Routh who played Superman in Superman Returns

    Antlered animal on Michigan's state flag

9) _____ Chop (puppet created by Shari Lewis)

    Formal evening party

10) "Borrowed" without permission

      Crow's larger cousin

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* Former Houston football player

* Place onto a scale

* Doc or Dopey, e.g.

* Stallone character from First Blood and Last Blood

* Cobalt or copper

* _____ Heep (progressive rock band active for over 50 years)

* Like notebook paper

* The Greatest Showman actor Zac

* Skateboarding leap

* The biggest of the big cats (if you exclude hybrids)

* _____ Bunches of Oats (cereal)

* Newspaper comic character who often exclaims "AACK!"

* Coin needed to play Skee-Ball, perhaps

* Tha Doggfather rapper, casually

* Sells, as from a machine stuffed with snacks

* The old "bucket of water on the door" trick, for one

* Get the heck outta Dodge

* Pleasing to the palate 

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 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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMvGDraZlXE7clR8-naAPqjxLcwJUtK8/view?usp=sharing