DUMP MONTH! PUZZLE #59: Mixed Doubles 2

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PUZZLE #59

MIXED DOUBLES 2

A while ago, I posted a "Mixed Doubles" puzzle, saying that it was one of the puzzle types that GAMES Magazine doesn't accept from newcomers. So what better way to continue Dump Month than with another one of these puzzles?

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 17-Across both have the same answer, the answer would go in the box labeled 18 (1+17). To make things harder, tags such as "Hyph." and "2 wds." have been omitted.

There is an 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) Maxwell's sister from the Scribblenauts series
2) The world's best-selling chocolate bar
3) Drum 'n' Bass band that did "Propane Nightmares" and "Watercolour"
4) Type of swan that almost became extinct
5) Post-credits scenes
6) 1991 horror film starring Kim Delaney
7) Kool or Camel
8) "Pow!"
9) Pop duo with George Michael and some other guy
10) Henry Fielding novel
11) Early Playstation 1 game where you could play as a jester
12) Dizzy Gillespie, notably
13) Today, to tomorrow
14) Type of boat also known as a "go-fast boat"
15) Swinging thing in Poe's Pit
16) Beatles song with the working title of "Scrambled Eggs"
17) With "The", James Spader TV series
18) Laughs like Muttley
19) Wasps' weapons
20) Complete and utter havoc
21) Easter flower
22) Head, shoulders, knees and toes
23) "She's a Lady" singer

DOWN
1) Realm ruled by King Dedede
2) Big empty space
3) Prime-time soap featuring Lucious and Cookie
4) Bouncing a basketball
5) Louis Sachar novel featuring Stanley Yelnats
6) Narrow river
7) Ronald Reagan's favorite candy
8) Drooling
9) Zoo resident
10) Nu-metal band whose only Top 40 hit was "Did My Time"
11) Dictatorship led by Palpatine
12) Bulk's best buddy in the Power Rangers franchise
13) Atone for
14) Tile art
15) Lieutenant colonel from Catch-22
16) Bronco tamer
17) Use Spotify or Pandora
18) Place to visit when you're asleep
19) Ostracize
20) Wang Chung album featuring "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
21) Babs Bunny's boyfriend
22) Plot problems
23) Jughead's baby sister
24) Null's companion
25) Cash in coupons
26) Wild drummer for Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
27) Symbol on a Jolly Roger

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!