GREATEST HITS MONTH! PUZZLE #81: Squeezed in the Middle 6

GREATEST HITS MONTH

PUZZLE #81

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 6

For this week's entry in Greatest Hits Month, it's another installment of my signature puzzle, Squeezed in the Middle! It's also my largest one of these kinds of puzzles yet, with eight Centers and eight Wholes for you to solve! If you want a refresher on how to solve one of these, just keep reading!

For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!

Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A movie title

CENTERS

1) Lambs' moms

2) Murder _____ Wrote

3) Lively frolic or lopsided win

4) Fictional nation where The Hunger Games takes place

5) The voice of this iPhone assistant appeared on To Tell the Truth in 2016

6) @@@

7) Start of Caesar's boast

8) Top floor for storage

WHOLES

* _____-l'œil

* Crisscross pattern

* "Future", in French (Anagram of RAVINE)

* Husband and brother of Isis (ew!)
* "I Love College" rapper Roth
* Like something that just came out
* Main protagonist of the manga/anime Fairy Tail (Anagram of TUNAS)
* "The Girl from _____" (common elevator song)

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!