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By Trip Payne
Answer: HOUSE MEETING

The first grid fills in normally, with these clues and answers:

  • 1889 painting = IRISES
  • Aaron Nicholson’s secret identity = ANSWER
  • _____ Accord (1987 G7 agreement) = LOUVRE
  • Alexander Ovechkin, for one = CAPITAL
  • Coin = INVENT
  • Cop/cabbie duo in a classic 1946 movie = BERT AND ERNIE
  • Gambit whose moves are 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 = EVANS
  • Gin cocktail = GIBSON
  • Great Sioux War historian Paul = HEDREN
  • Hyacinth’s mother = CLIO
  • It can be partial, full, express, or implied = REPEAL
  • Light source = CANDLE
  • Luther Vandross’s band, once = CHANGE
  • Moon of Saturn = PHOEBE
  • Richie Rich’s dog = DOLLAR
  • R in NRSV = REVISED
  • Safor municipality = OLIVA
  • Six-volume Korean manhwa series = RECAST
  • TAFKAP part = ARTIST
  • Ted Danson sitcom = BECKER
  • Women’s clothing chain = BEBE
P I H L G C
C H A N G E O L I V A
O V D U B N
B E B E R E V I S E D
B N E R O L
B E R T A N D E R N I E
E E R O E R
C A P I T A L C L I O
K E I L A S
E V A N S A N S W E R
R L T R T S

Each of those answers then completes one of the clues for the second puzzle, the last of which gives you the final answer:

  • INVENT Africa offering = SAFARI
  • Dutch alternatives to IRISES = TULIPS
  • Fail, like a Roman CANDLE = MISFIRE
  • GIBSON film of 1996 = RANSOM
  • General term for DOLLARs, in Spanish = DINERO
  • Hugo or CLIO, e.g. = AWARD
  • Movie starring Connery and HEDREN = MARNIE
  • BEBE Neuwirth’s birthplace = NEWARK
  • Rival of BECKER = EDBERG
  • She played Mrs. EVANS on a 1970s sitcom = ROLLE
  • Sister of PHOEBE, on TV = URSULA
  • Southwestern CAPITAL = SANTA FE
  • Symbols that denote CHANGE = DELTAS
  • REVISED text = EDITED
  • Things a government might REPEAL = LAWS
  • Tony OLIVA had 220 of them = HOMERS
  • Venue of 2011’s The ARTIST = CINEMA
  • Website where you could read “10 RECAST Movie Characters” = EMPIRE
  • What BERT AND ERNIE are made of = FELT
  • Where the hero of a 2003 novel that begins at the LOUVRE was born = EXETER
  • Your ANSWER = HOUSE MEETING
D D R M S E
C I N E M A A W A R D
N L N R F B
F E L T S A N T A F E
R A O I R R
H O U S E M E E T I N G
O R D X U E
M I S F I R E L A W S
E U T T I A
R O L L E E M P I R E
S A D R S K