PUZZLE #235
PENT WORDS 13
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) Fill completely
Yak, for one
2) Paper towel brand whose mascot is a buff man in flannel
Way past the deadline
3) Garfield's geeky owner
Wounded
4) Type of tire
Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy, e.g.
5) Gamora's cyborg sister from
Guardians of the Galaxy
Video surveillance system: Abbr.
6)
Trivial _____: America Plays (Game show that I once appeared on. No, really!)
Actress Gadot who voiced Shank in
Ralph Breaks the Internet
7) Remove, like a pin on a bulletin board
Perfectly round solids
8) Chinese tree with fan-shaped leaves: Var.
Geek
9) Abrasive powder on a nail file
Like a dripping faucet
10)
_____ Story 4 (upcoming film... or not, depending on when you solve this)
Retired 76er Allen
PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* "Peter Peter Pumpkin _____" (nursery rhyme)
* The human body's largest internal organ
* Pop like a bubble
* Phonograph record material
* Isabella's helper from
The Promised Neverland (or a Danish coin)
* Clingy wrap
* Leonard who directed
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
* The "U" in "UHD"
* Borg who won Wimbledon five times in a row
* Squashed circles
* Stage of grief after "denial"
*
American _____ Warrior Junior (spinoff show on Universal Kids)
* Gas brand with a triangular logo
* Company that makes vacuums which roll on a ball
* Farewell, in French
* Former footballer Tim famous for kneeling
* Queen's decree
* _____ Sound, Washington
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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!
