CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH! PUZZLE #155: Mixed Doubles 5

CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH!

PUZZLE #155

MIXED DOUBLES 5

Happy December, everyone! And as you can see in the header above, it's another theme month! I'll elaborate more on the details of it next week, but for now, all I'll say is that this puzzle type was requested by my mom. Now let's get to the directions!

Each answer word in this crossword variation has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word. The clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly. When you find two Across clues or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers to determine the place in the grid where the answer should be entered. For example, if the clue for 1-Across and the clue for 16-Across both have the same answer, the answer would go in the box labeled 17 (1+16). To make things harder, tags such as "Hyph." and "2 wds." have been omitted.

There is one extra clue in both lists of Across and Down clues. This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer to both of the extra clues, which you can get by rearranging the letters in the grid's pink squares.

ACROSS
1) Second book in the Divergent trilogy
2) Avoid an issue, say
3) X-Men member born in Canada
4) Grace who sang for Jefferson Airplane
5) Fascinate
6) Simba's family, e.g.
7) Patty Bouvier's twin sister in The Simpsons
8) It goeth before a fall
9) Rebel
10) What Resident Evil is called in Japan
11) Feature of a whodunit's plot
12) Wild recklessness
13) Sans' brother in Undertale
14) Looked through again
15) Clothing item that may have a poodle on it
16) Covered in oil
17) Ancient scroll material
18) Type of sign used to label dangerous viruses
19) 2014 film about Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous march
20) Forsake
21) Critiqued a piece of media

DOWN
1) Its state bird is the cactus wren
2) Movie studio that turned 100 in 2012
3) Glowing piece of coal
4) Fantasy film starring David Bowie as Jareth
5) Young model on the front of a magazine
6) College football player that wears maize and blue
7) What the Minotaur from Greek mythology was trapped in
8) "Marvins Room" musician
9) Hockey infraction
10) Evil organization in Captain America: The First Avenger
11) The largest constellation
12) Iced tea brand that sells Arnold Palmers
13) All-inclusive
14) "Eh, I expected as much"
15) The world's fastest dog breed
16) Blue dragon princess from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
17) Male duck
18) "Easy, breezy, beautiful" makeup brand
19) Statuettes and such
20) Toaster Strudel topping
21) Bus that the Allman Brothers Band's "Ramblin' Man" was born in

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 a version you can print out!