PUZZLE #217
MIXED DOUBLES 7
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) "Half" or "full" wrestling hold
2) Concurrence
3) The one in U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is just the title sung over and over
4) Puzzle solver's pencil smudge
5) Unexpected blow
6) High school that Danny and Sandy of
Grease go to
7) Unhappiness
8) Handheld PlayStation console whose most successful title was
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
9) Spy org. that the title character of
Archer originally worked for
10) French film movement involving François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard
11) Synthpop duo that did "Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect"
12) Nobel Peace Prize winner Mandela
13) Runs together, like colors
14) Stephen King book with an insane fan named Annie Wilkes
15) '90s PBS kids' show with a ball-shaped spirit that can rearrange text and letters
16) Masked group from ancient Greek plays that comment on the action
17) Author of books credited to someone else
18)
On Golden Pond director Mark
19) Mother of Horus
20) Engine chamber
21) Midsize sedan by Honda
22) Has red stuff pour out of a wound
23) Life, in Italian
24) Music genre of Men at Work and Men Without Hats
25) Video game company that created
Sly Cooper and
Infamous
DOWN
1) 2006 puzzle documentary featuring Will Shortz and Tyler Hinman
2) Proportionate
3) Areas of influence
4) Group of 100 contestants in
1 vs. 100
5) Make certain
6) With "The", mockbuster movie studio that produced the
Sharknado series
7) Black eye
8) Nickel's shape
9) Owl from
Animal Crossing who curates your town's museum
10) Mafia crowd
11) Triscuits and Wheat Thins, for example
12) Uses steel wool
13) First spacecraft to reach Uranus and Neptune
14) Popcorn and pretzels, e.g.
15) Nutritional shake brand introduced in 1973
16) Puns, spoonerisms, and so on
17) Talks on and on like a fool
18)
Star Trek series featuring Captain Janeway
19) Type of psychiatric hospital where Batman's villains usually wind up
20) Any family member
21) Searches high and low
22) Small silvery fish
23) Items used to level up spirits in
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
24) Geometrical figures with no edges
25) Completely loco
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!
