PUZZLE #500: Pent Words 20

PUZZLE #500

PENT WORDS 20

It's been almost 10 years since I've started this blog, and today, I reach an important milestone of 500 puzzles! I sincerely thank you and everyone else who has supported me up to this point, and I'm truly grateful for all of you helping me keep this little blog going for so long. Now, for my 500th puzzle, I've decided to go back to basics, all the way to my very first puzzle on this site: Pent Words! The directions are the same as usual (save for a very minor twist regarding the Final Answer), but if you want a refresher on what those instructions entail, then read on!

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 three unclued pentominoes to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a three-word phrase

ACROSS (Two answers per row)

1) Guilty party

    The _____ & Stimpy Show

2) Moved on one's stomach, like a baby

    Midriff muscles, for short

3) Video game walkthrough, e.g.

    It's provided by a mythical fountain sought after by Ponce de León

4) The Jetsons dog with the same original voice actor (and speech impediment) as Scooby-Doo

    One of 12 grinders in a human mouth

5) Bring under control

    "You _____ Love a Bad Name" (Bon Jovi song)

6) Architectural blueprint

    Soaks in the tub

7) Defunct company that published NBA Jam for Super Nintendo (EASIER CLUE: Enthusiastic praise)

    Post-op stop in a hosp.

8) Word preceding "year" or "frog"

    Dinner table linen that can be folded like origami

9) Any possible reward for correctly matching panels in Classic Concentration

    Cliff's projection

10) Sand trap or thin ice, say

      _____-N-Pepa (female rap duo)

PENTOMINOES (Five letters per answer)

• FIRST PART OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• SECOND PART OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• THIRD PART OF THE FINAL ANSWER

• First Greek letter

• Last Greek letter

• _____ and Present Danger (Harrison Ford film)

• Handed out hands of cards

• Don't be a greedy hog

• Mel who was the original voice for both Bugs and Daffy

• I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense character named after Canada's national tree

• Mea _____ (Latin for "my fault")

• Geeky-sounding hard candy

• Most populated city in the United Arab Emirates

• Tween girl whose inner emotions are the main characters of Pixar's Inside Out

• Fill a Toyota's tank: 2 wds.

• Popeye's girlfriend

• Not as narrow

• Mad _____ You ('90s sitcom)

• Taking to court

• Stock market movement

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/1U9b64VWOvi8U_HcpL8YNrbHOyk4RazZJ/view?usp=sharing