PUZZLE #329
MIXED DOUBLES 8
Before I get into the directions, I should let you all know that this puzzle will be the first one under the new, simplified hint system. Basically, you can now ask for as many hints as you want for each puzzle going forward, but if you do, you'll get a "[Hint(s) Used]" tag next to your name on that puzzle's list of solvers. I hope this will work out for all of us, and if you still have any questions regarding this new setup, feel free to ask through email or the comments section. Now let's get to a new installment in a puzzle type that I haven't done in a while!
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 14-Across both have the same answer, the answer would go in the box labeled 15 (1+14). 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.
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) Brimless hat famously worn by Jacqueline Kennedy
2) Propping up a roof
3) Dale's chipmunk brother
4) Default name of the female protagonist from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
5) Heavy metal band that performed "Run to the Hills"
6) Indonesian dagger with a wavy blade
7) Blimp's body
8) Pirates of the Caribbean actor Geoffrey
9) Birthplace of seven US Presidents (including Lincoln)
10) Canadian progressive rock group with drummer Neil Peart
11) Instructor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12) French fry, in Britain
13) Bird whose tailfeathers have eyes
14) Like Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar-winning role in Jerry Maguire
15) Flatten a beach ball
16) Daybreak
17) Syrup brand promoted by country singer Eddy Arnold in '70s TV ads
18) Streaming service with revivals of Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster
19) Medieval torture device
20) Take the metaphorical wind out of one's sails
21) Small tablet container
22) Pointy fragment that you don't want in your fingernail
23) Mother of Kourtney, Kim and Khloé
DOWN
1) Over and done with
2) What happens when both chess players capture each other's knight, say
3) Highest rainforest layer
4) Film splicer
5) Macintosh adventure game where you play a private eye named Ace Harding
6) Do an impression of
7) Part of a little teapot
8) Element between cobalt and copper on the periodic table
9) Sensation that makes you go "Wait, I've been here before..."
10) Once more
11) Mary from a long-running "soap opera" strip
12) Like risqué jokes
13) Coin with Monticello
14) Homestar Runner's occasional girlfriend
15) Computer program that lets you change text files
16) Applied clear varnish to wooden furniture
17) Dungeons & Dragons monster that disguises itself as a treasure chest
18) Wrapper in a UPS Store
19) Valued at
20) The wrong shade of purple, perhaps
21) Speak pompously
22) Transparent cockpit cover
23) Confection made up of almond paste and egg whites
24) Lenny Kravitz hit with the lyrics "All of my life, where have you been?"
25) Swap phone numbers
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 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!
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