PUZZLE #200: Pent Words 12: Fusion

PUZZLE #200

PENT WORDS 12: FUSION

It's my milestone 200th puzzle, so it's time for me to do something special! One hundred puzzles ago, I did a new twist on "Pent Words" by combining it with my signature creation, "Squeezed in the Middle". This time, I'm going to do a different type of combining regarding "Pent Words", so read on to see what that means!

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.

Two of the pentominoes have fused together to make one big ten-square shape. The FINAL ANSWER is the 10-letter compound word made by the two fused pentominoes.

ACROSS (Two answers per row)
1) Dili, East _____
    Scan, like a credit card
2) Poem full of praise
    Supplant
3) Type of bar where cowboys brawl in many Western movies
    Architectural style used by the Empire State Building
4) Spicy New Orleans cuisine
    Clay creature from Jewish folklore
5) Any day now
    Greg's partner in the title of a '90s sitcom
6) 2008 anime movie about a goldfish who wants to be human
    Vacant, as an apartment available to rent
7) "Shocking" Super Mario 64 enemies named after electrical units
    Handy and beneficial
8) Definitely intend to
    Nephew of Donald Duck who wears a green shirt
9) Marvin K. _____ Will You Please Go Now! (Dr. Seuss book)
    Birdbrained harpy from Monster Musume (or the Spanish word for "Daddy")
10) Original America's Funniest Home Videos host Bob
      Like snug-fitting skinny jeans

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* BOTH HALVES OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Nickname of the pilot who famously landed his plane on the Hudson River
* Get educated
* Puccini opera about an opera singer
* Second-highest digit in a normal sudoku puzzle
* Gaston's sidekick from Beauty and the Beast: 2 wds.
* August: _____ County (Meryl Streep movie)
* Code creator Samuel
* Moxie or pizzazz
* Hippie's two-finger gesture
* The Real Adventures of _____ Quest ('90s action-adventure cartoon)
* Bulb from Holland
* Last name of either Nick from Zootopia or Oscar the playwright
* _____ in the Dark (the first 3D survival horror video game)
* Ms. Mayonnaise from Nickelodeon's Doug
* Absolutely perfect
* Perdita's "husband" from 101 Dalmatians
* Uncontrollable twitch
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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!