PUZZLE #386
MIXED DOUBLES 9
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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) Skier Picabo who won a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics
2) Evil changeling queen from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
3) Nestlé chocolate bar with rice (or the sound it makes when eaten)
4) Video game designer Bleszinski who created Gears of War
5) Lends a helping hand
6) Member of an MLB team with a halo in its logo
7) Swap tires
8) With "Suites," chain of upscale hotels by Hilton
9) So shiny as to cause someone to squint
10) Intelligent
11) Stressful mandatory overtime period in video game development
12) Melt into a fluid
13) Remote solitude
14) Company that created underwear briefs in the 1930s
15) Like Simon who met a pieman
16) Butterfly's pupal stage
17) Steep rocky ledge that Wile E. Coyote often falls off of
18) No-frills
19) Basketball plays that involve two people
20) Turn like a turnstile
21) Diplomat's building
22) Gold-certified Toto album with the song "Stranger in Town"
23) Horse rider at the Belmont Stakes
24) Word following "Easy" or "Sesame"
25) Spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer about a vampire detective
DOWN
1) Side stories within stories
2) Musical genre for Harry Belafonte
3) Beaver's family in Leave It to Beaver
4) Gradual film transition
5) 2003 movie where Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell start a fraternity
6) Annual spring festival whose traditions include spinning around a pole
7) Canadian impressionist Rich
8) Adjusted an engine's speed
9) Covered with iron oxide
10) Style of hip-hop from the early '80s
11) In need of a refresher after so long
12) Jolly old saint
13) Plastic card carried by the President that contains nuclear launch codes
14) Canine species of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney's Robin Hood
15) Have a cigar
16) Smaller sections of agricultural acres
17) Nickname of Sam Malone from Cheers
18) Gobble (down)
19) Pint-sized
20) Nymph who imprisoned Odysseus for seven years in Homer's Odyssey
21) Small flaky bread included in KFC meals
22) Strangled
23) Gray-clad ninja who debuted in Mortal Kombat II as a secret opponent
24) The Loud House network, for short
25) Butcher's blades
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 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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