PUZZLE #162: Compound Crosswords

PUZZLE #162

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word.

CLUES
* Center color of France's flag
* Cloth sat on at the beach
* First anniversary gift
* Fruits dried to become raisins
* Hanna-Barbera's Jabberjaw, e.g.
* Hatfield-McCoy quarrel that lasted for years
* Large instrument hit with a mallet
* Lip-puckering
* M4 Sherman, for one
* Medium for Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats
* Mug made of skin?
* One of many collectible timepieces in Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time
* Pittsburgh baseball player
* "_____ Portrait" (P!nk song)
* Spinning geography class staple
* Third place at the Preakness Stakes
* Type of egg that Aesop's goose laid
* Winter precipitation

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 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!