PUZZLE #444
MIXED DOUBLES 10
This puzzle contains a word suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!
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.
ACROSS
1) King that you play as in King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
2) Bushy border
3) Leveling out
4) Confident bridge bidder's call
5) What a driver can't see in a rear-view mirror
6) Yu-Gi-Oh! villain who created the Duel Monsters card game
7) Tennis great Arthur
8) Installment of Action Comics, say
9) Doctor's directives
10) Shortly after sunset
11) Bouillabaisse or beef bourguignon, e.g.
12) Winged horse such as Zipp Storm or Rainbow Dash from the My Little Pony franchise
13) Avoid fully committing one way or the other
14) Bomb big on Broadway
15) Obsessively worry
16) Distribute
17) With "The", Agatha Christie play that asks its audience to not reveal the ending
18) Duplicate one's efforts once more
19) Kind of cracker created by Honey Maid
20) Alphabetizes
21) Board game where you create an elaborate contraption to catch a rodent
22) Produce a bright blue ellipsoid like a robin
23) NBC drama about an amnesiac woman whose numerous tattoos provide clues to crimes
24) Majestic
25) Frost Archer from League of Legends
DOWN
1) The most popular apple variety in America
2) Last name of Ron from the Anchorman movies
3) Free from opinions and prejudices
4) Enemy of Spider-Man who is a black alien symbiote that bonds with various hosts
5) Margarine brand
6) Playing the turntables like a hip-hop DJ
7) Marking a building as being uninhabitable
8) Toss
9) Commodore computer that Lemmings was originally developed for
10) Deep-fried ball of cornbread
11) Any mission in mission-based video games, for example
12) Toxin in a king cobra's fangs
13) Relieving an itch
14) Female friend from Mexico
15) Gust or gale
16) Peril
17) Song by The Black Keys playable in Rock Band 4
18) Form a coil
19) Short-lived romance
20) Lavish party
21) Game show where Amy Schneider went on a 40-game winning streak
22) High body temperature
23) Dark red color named after a French wine
24) Strongly denouncing
25) Lamb Chop's canine friend in Lamb Chop's Play-Along
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!
