ANSWERS: Mixed Doubles 6

It's been almost two weeks since I've posted "Mixed Doubles 6", and nine people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Dan Simonds ***
• Debbie Benford ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solver comments!

And here are all the correct number combinations:

ACROSS: 2/13, 3/20, 4/12, 5/8, 6/15, 7/17, 8/5, 9/21, 10/16, 11/18, 12/4, 13/2, 14/19, 15/6, 16/10, 17/7, 18/11, 19/14, 20/3, 21/9

DOWN: 1/19, 2/23, 3/8, 4/15, 5/22, 6/25, 7/10, 8/3, 9/13, 10/7, 11/21, 12/16, 13/9, 14/20, 15/4, 16/12, 17/18, 18/17, 19/1, 20/14, 21/11, 22/5, 23/2, 25/6

The two leftover clues are 1-Across and 24-Down, and the answer to those clues (which you can get by scrambling the letters in the pink squares) is SWEEPING: this puzzle's FINAL ANSWER!

Solver Sam Levitin "Mistakenly entered 'ALARM' at 23A for elevator option/completely stun before I looked up Legends of the Hidden Temple."

Patron Pavel Curtis said that "The final word to fall was OLMEC, barely preceded by FLOOR, which provided its crucial initial O.  I was *so* close to not finishing without consulting the web!"