Link to original post : Wordy Wednesday 25: Pent Words 5

It's been two weeks, so time to unveil the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Adam Weaver **
Bo Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Carl Worth **
Cheryl Chan **
Giovanni Pagano **
Izak Bulten **
Jack Bross **
James McGowan **
Jeremy Conner **
Joel Martin **
John Bulten **
Mark Tilford **
Randy Rogers **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tim Harrod **
And the contest winner, who will receive a copy of the two Wordplay issues in which I've been published, is. . . INSERT WINNER HERE! Congratulations!

19 people have solved last week's puzzle. This includes every single person who solved Wordy Wednesday #23, meaning that this puzzle is strictly easier than that one (so I'm a bad judge of difficulty, eh?), and also that every single one of those people will be eligible for a third prize drawing available only to people who solved both puzzles. As promised, there will not be an easier version or a hint (a move I made to make the contest easier to manage). Remember, this puzzle is a contest! Send your solutions to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess, not to mention getting a chance to win signed issues of Will Shortz's Wordplay. Good luck, solvers!

In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write 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, in reading order (left to right starting 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 PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.
ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 "Drawing Hands" artist / Relaxed
2 ____ machine / ____ Dice (game in which players attempt to eat brains)
3 Certain Honda / Cult
4 Joins, as oxen / Unit of currency in Hyrule
5 "____ is a balm in Gilead. . ." / ____ space
6 Surjective, as a function / Roof of the mouth
7 Annoying buggers / "He ____ to Paris" (Jimmy Buffett song)
8 Polio researcher Sabin / Like many valuable collectibles
9 Model / Made on a loom
10 It lacks a charge / "I don't ____ it"

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Wolfed down
* Poet's concern
* Senator who represented Delaware until 2009
* Physicist Heinrich Rudolf ____
* Former "Family Feud" host Ray
* Naughty word
* Treasure ____
* Like some dialed telephone numbers
* Spew out lava
* Origami need
* Certain General Mills cereal
* Doctrine
* South Korea population center
* "May I take your ____?"
* Native of Alaska or Russia, perhaps
* It might have five paragraphs
* Rodney Dangerfield's surname by birth
* Mia Wasikowska's character in a 2010 remake


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Link to original post : Wordy Wednesday #26: Not Divided Into Words

It's been two weeks, so time to unveil the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Adam Weaver **
Bo Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Carl Worth **
Cheryl Chan **
Christian H.P. **
Giovanni Pagano **
Izak Bulten **
Jack Bross **
Jack Lance **
James McGowan **
Jeremy Conner **
Joel Martin **
John Bulten **
Marc Enyedy **
Mark Tilford **
Randy Rogers **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tim Harrod **
And the contest winner, who will receive a copy of the two Wordplay issues in which I've been published, is. . . INSERT NAME HERE!
But wait, that's not all! I promised a third prize drawing for those individuals who've solved Wordy Wednesday #23 and #24, and the winner of that drawing is. . . INSERT NAME HERE!!! Congratulations! random.org likes you!!

12 people have solved last week's puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your solutions to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

The mark of a good puzzle writer is when other people write puzzles in your original styles, and I am happy to say that I am not the only Pent Words author in existence. Fan Ryan Faley recently sent me a Pent Words of his own, and despite the potential obscurity of some of the references, I was really honored by his creation, and found it amusing enough to share here. I hope Ryan continues to enjoy my creations, as well! :)

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
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57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108

Causing harm or grief: 71 22 39 102 84 52 30
Tie with rope: 37 72 53 47
Sweatshirt that also covers your head: 60 45 09 42 107 20
One of four on a Monopoly board: 103 05 26 44 18 85 78 54
Give off bubbles and hiss: 38 106 15 64 10 98 58 19 34 80
It might be an acorn hoarder: 66 21 17 97 76 86 32 04
Trinket or bauble: 93 101 08 96 41 70
Game show “The ____ Link”: 63 99 75 57 90 88 48
Creature which sometimes elicits an "Eek!": 91 51 46 12 03
Noted role for Adam West: 65 43 59 100 104 24
Residents of Riyadh: 62 27 31 79 67 50
Child actress Hayley: 89 92 28 55 06
Hedburg who said, “Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!”: 87 61 95 108 02
Emulated an owl: 94 13 49 01 77 11
Decade of the inauguration of Ike: 105 56 14 25 82 69 33
Band with the album "Dreamboat Annie": 74 23 35 81 68
____ the dots: 29 16 36 83 40 73 07


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