PUZZLE #149: Pent Words 9

PUZZLE #149

PENT WORDS 9

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) Wigged singer who voiced Songbird Serenade in My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
    Invader Zim creator Jhonen
2) Sulk
    _____ catcher (paper fortune teller)
3) Microsoft's spreadsheet program
    Homeowners' documents
4) Companion of dark and handsome
    PC key above "Delete"
5) _____ Loops (Toucan Sam's cereal)
    Personal journal
6) Aptly-named spirit of chaos from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
    Snake that bit Cleopatra
7) House actor Epps
    Like a noisy rocking chair
8) Monsieur Le Pew
    Lincoln's first vice president
9) Female toon bunny who debuted in Space Jam
    Heavily slanted, like most cable news
10) Harp constellation (well, it was either that or yet another MLP reference...)
      First name of the first First Lady

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma or Octavia Melody
* 2000s spy series starring Jennifer Garner
* Pansy piece
* _____ Theater (progressive metal band)
* Like a taste with a kick
* "Stop the ship, me mateys!"
* Third rock from the sun
* Force forward
* Sitting Bull was one
* Sweet _____ Purebred (Underdog's love interest)
* Cryptography topics
* Like Louis Armstrong's singing voice
* James Garfield's middle name
* Seaduck whose feathers are used in pillows
* Hobbit played by Elijah Wood
* Country where Slumdog Millionaire is set
* Sorta
* Item on a dime's back side

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 version you can print out!