PUZZLE #448: Pent Words 19

PUZZLE #448

PENT WORDS 19

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) "_____ I Wanna Do" (Sheryl Crow hit)

    Widespread wrath

2) Southeast Asian capital with a 101-floor skyscraper

    Body part inserted into a Power Glove

3) Corporal from M*A*S*H who loves to drink grape Nehi

    The last letter in "XXL"

4) Someone who believes that God created the Earth, but hasn't touched it since

    Cries like a coyote

5) Stats in a spreadsheet, say

    Like a ready-to-assemble home

6) Beetle Bailey's army rank

    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows director Ritchie

7) All in one piece

    Thanksgiving table's tubers

8) 2008 computer game that had the working title of SimEverything (or a fern's seed)

    Reads quickly (and incompletely)

9) Big cat also known as a catamount or mountain lion

    The Andrews Sisters or the Jonas Brothers, e.g.

10) Prefix for "sphere"

      Minor _____ Baseball

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)

• HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• French setting for Ratatouille

• Remy's older brother in Ratatouille

• Easiest parts of a jigsaw puzzle, perhaps

• Krabby _____ (hamburger crafted by SpongeBob)

• Dog breed declared a "Japanese natural monument" in 1931

• Arcade game company that developed Lunar Lander and Asteroids

• A liquid quart has two of these

• Piano-playing dog from The Muppet Show

• Made some sums

• Bottomless pit

• Site for rites in church

• Adventures of the _____ Bears (Disney Afternoon series based off of a candy)

• Something soothed by Pine Bros. throat drops

• Romero who was the first person to portray the Joker on television

• African country that borders Togo

• _____ One: A Star Wars Story (2016 film)

• Fifty-four divided by eighteen

• Late comedian Anderson who was a regular panelist on Funny You Should Ask

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vKfEnuDCYzKTuCe2tcrnFrUH4k9eizrR/view