PUZZLE #325: Pent Words 16

PUZZLE #325

PENT WORDS 16

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) Trash can on a computer, e.g.

    Part of CIA or NSA

2) Horror actor Price who voiced himself (more-or-less) in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

    Tusked warrior from the Warcraft games

3) As Above, So _____ (2014 "found footage" film)

    Supermarket Sweep passageway

4) Taking advantage of, as a person

    Straight up and down

5) Quick squirt of perfume

    Letter before Foxtrot

6) Type of breakfast "browns"

    Inn chain that once had a mascot named "Uncle Ben"

7) Obeys a triangular street sign

    Waiting for Godot, for one

8) Poker payment

    Wriggle uncomfortably

9) Strawberry in the New York Mets Hall of Fame

    Their last American Top 10 hit was "The Winner Takes It All"

10) Source of amethyst

      "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your _____?" (All That quote)

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)

• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• Person from Prague

• Daniel _____'s Neighborhood (PBS Kids series)

• Tiny explosive used to simulate a bullet hit in movies

• Bi-, tri-, or uni- follower

• Color in drawings on animation cels

• Actress Davis who played Stuart Little's adoptive mother

• Like a fox's tail

• Morning TV show with Hoda Kotb

• Nationality of Sinéad O'Connor

• Noisy deterrent of would-be car thieves

• The _____ Scrolls V: Skyrim (role-playing computer game)

• Anime detective who borrowed his name from Sherlock's creator

• Heroes villain who was originally a watchmaker

• Language that gave us "reindeer" and "ransack"

• Old axiom

• Chicken-chasing mutt from a 1950s animated Disney film

• Prestigious schools also known as "The Ancient Eight"

• Ruth Ginsburg's middle name

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zDAfXIUv3PfK3RebXSt3JtZmjqo545mQ/view?usp=sharing