PUZZLE #172: Mixed Doubles 6

PUZZLE #172

MIXED DOUBLES 6

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) Comprehensive
2) Info-retaining skill needed to play Classic Concentration
3) Completely stun
4) Hunts and pecks, perhaps
5) Collection of family photos
6) Last name of Walter and Peter from Fringe
7) Human soul
8) KISS's Destroyer or Dynasty, for example
9) Wood used for carpentry
10) Guile
11) Glowing blue plot device stolen by Loki in The Avengers (2012)
12) Ilks
13) Computer capacity
14) Uninterrupted string of moves in a fighting video game
15) Diagonally-moving chess piece
16) Recent ABC show about a stage magician working for the FBI
17) Cupid's wife
18) Four-dimensional version of a cube
19) Fast food meal deal
20) Elevator option
21) Clumsily move (along)

DOWN​
1) Value
2) Dwayne Johnson film with a giant gorilla very loosely based on an arcade game
3) Nocturnal male demon
4) Giant stone co-host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
5) Potato product in a bag of Ruffles
6) 40-yard dash, e.g.
7) Food company that owns Hot Pockets and DiGiorno
8) Rock band that did "Pardon Me", "Megalomaniac", and "Drive"
9) Hatfield's foe
10) Snuggle up
11) Red Muppet who visited Grouchland in a 1999 movie
12) Site of the original sin
13) Star Trek character who often says "He's dead, Jim"
14) What Little Jack Horner pulled out
15) Early Mexican resident
16) I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara
17) Annual award given out by the Mystery Writers of America
18) First name of Tarzan's creator
19) Mary from a long-running soap opera strip
20) Purple Professor from Clue
21) Patron saint of sailors
22) Mrs. Potts' son in Beauty and the Beast (1991)
23) Destructive spree
24) Cleaning a chimney, say
25) Phone company that Verizon's "Can you hear me now?" guy switched to, according to their ads

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 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!