Monday, February 8, 2016

PUZZLE #62: Pent Words 5

PUZZLE #62
PENT WORDS 5

My 64th puzzle is in a couple weeks, so you'd probably expect me to do another Pent Words for that milestone since it was my first puzzle type on this blog. As you could probably tell from the title above, that won't be the case. So until then, let's try our hand at this one, shall we?


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 an award-winning film from the late 2000s


ACROSS (Two answers per row)
1) Pinocchio's pet goldfish / Uryū from Bleach (hidden in THIS HID AN ANSWER)
2) First name in a posthumous Poe poem / Small chuckle
3) It precedes "Kea" and "Loa" in Hawaiian volcano names / Coen Brothers film that later became an anthology series
4) Final Fantasy: _____ Quest / Suffix for "Psych"
5) Glittery tree trimming / Italy's largest city
6) Foghorn _____ / B or C from the Spice Girls
7) Air pollutant summoned by Elmer in What's Opera, Doc? / Recoil in disgust
8) Nestlé-owned Dog Chow maker / Giant plastic ball that you can roll around in
9) Miia from Monster Musume, for one / Search engine with a dog as its logo (yes, it still exists)
10) Elephant genie from Diddy Kong Racing / "Still the One" band

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* With "The", Best Picture Oscar winner from 1973
* Place to put books
Madagascar's King Julien, for one
* Loosen laces
* Japanese version of chess
* When tripled, ABBA song sampled by Madonna
* Red, white, or blue
* A dozen dozen
* Street Fighter character with green stains on her legs
* State with a Potato Museum
* With "The", programming block that airs classic Nickelodeon shows
* Rank above captain
* The X-Factor (UK) winner Lewis
* Samurai without a master
* One Direction member born in Ireland
* GSN's 1 vs. 100 host Carrie-Ann
* One of five bodies of water
* Hollywood star, for short

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!


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