PUZZLE #591
PENT WORDS 22
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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) Costello's partner in comedy
Award such as "Best Breakthrough Athlete" given by a certain cable network
2) Bark at the moon
Disney villainess with six tentacles (and not eight, cuz it's cheaper that way)
3) Murder on the _____ Express (1934 detective novel)
Robert who delivers a memorable monologue as Quint in Jaws
4) Talks like this, this green Star Wars character does
Rattle off as many digits of pi as you can remember, perhaps
5) Change for the better (we hope)
Make a touchdown on the tarmac
6) Trouble with the stomach's lining
"_____ on the Water" (gold-certified Deep Purple hit)
7) Like the pastoral countryside
Actress Heche or actress Hathaway
8) Got down (anagram of TAIL)
National song such as "Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty"
9) Jeff Bridges' older brother
Family Feud feature that's always asked to 100 people beforehand
10) About as fresh as month-old bread
NBA star Stephen who also appeared on the mini-golfing show Holey Moley
PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
• Like the pastoral countryside (yup, this same clue again!)
• Twisted around a vertical axis
• Happen over and over again, like a nightmare
• "Hocus Pocus" prog-rock band whose name rhymes with "Hocus Pocus"
• Sing in a way heard in the aforementioned song "Hocus Pocus"
• Six-year periods for a senator
• _____ Second Counts (mid-'80s game show)
• Adam Goldberg's sister in The Goldbergs
• Rainbow rolls, dynamite rolls, California rolls, etc.
• The largest moon of Saturn
• Messy green icon next to poorly-reviewed movies on Rotten Tomatoes
• David who sang "Blue Jean" and "The Jean Genie"
• Furry blue member of the X-Men
• Ratchet & _____ (PlayStation game series about a furry alien and his robot sidekick)
• Loathe entirely
• With "The", restaurantgoer's regular order
• Semiaquatic mink relative
• Venom, to Spider-Man
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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!
