PUZZLE #194
PENT WORDS 11
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) Twister's bullying big brother from
Rocket Power
Red root veggie seen in salads
2) Empty, like some apartments or stares
Theater award given by
The Village Voice
3) Touch up, as a painting
Viewtiful _____ (stylish GameCube game)
4) Extra car tires
Swallow hard
5) One of 18 sections of
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Moray, for one
6) Eyewitness's tale
_____ Minella (punnily-named Muppet chimp)
7) Quick haircut
A bicycle built for two
8) Unexpected sports victories
Historical Aaron played by Leslie Odom Jr. in
Hamilton
9) Snake that bit Cleopatra
Gromit's owner in a series of claymation shorts
10) Hen houses
American Ninja Warrior co-host Gbaja-Biamila
PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Mustard relative seen in salads
* Ring-tailed creature native to Madagascar
* Cookie _____ (cereal)
* White hamster from
Hamtaro (or an old movie theater name)
* Mascot of the Philadelphia Eagles
* Insect stage before pupa
* Sound from a gym rat lifting heavy weights
* Rapper Shakur whose album
All Eyez on Me reached diamond status
* With "El", legendary Luchador who wore a silver mask
* Spicy dance?
* Kindly villager voiced by John Goodman in
The Emperor's New Groove
* Place to buy lemonade from kids
* SiriusXM medium
* Celestial body with a tail
* Peanut butter cup creator H. B. _____
* Steel rod in concrete
* Female
Futurama character with one eye
* "Headstrong" hard rock band
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 a version you can print out!
