PUZZLE #176: Brick By Brick 5

PUZZLE #176

BRICK BY BRICK 5

Place the 2x3 bricks into the grid below so that a crossword puzzle with rotational symmetry is formed. Each of the Across and Down clues hint at answers that appear in that row or column, all of which are in order. Be careful with the rows marked with a 7, 8, and 9, as the bricks that are placed in those rows will be split in half by a blue line, which you can see in the diagram above. Also, the letters that go in the blue line's squares will complete one answer in almost every Down column, though you'll have to figure out what those letters are.

Oh, and as an extra challenge, two of the bricks are completely blank, and you have to figure out what letters go in those as well!

Once you've filled in everything, read the letters in both formerly-blank bricks and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: A two-word title

ACROSS
1) Not transparent or translucent
    Whirling and snarling Looney Tunes character
    Frilly fabric
2) Money back to an unsatisfied customer
    What a frat dude calls his frat dude friend
    Style of rock music for Roxy Music
3) Molar hole
    Board game with 98 lettered tiles and two blank ones
4) "_____ the season to be jolly..."
    "Oh, screw you!" (ALTERNATE CLUE: A stupid thing to say to a vampire)
5) Toy soldier who fights Cobra Commander
    How some bonds are bought
    "_____ Kommissar" (After The Fire song)
6) Giant bird that lays blue-green eggs
    Agile
    Not barefoot
7) It may precede a pedi
    Tried to woo over
8) A HINT TO THE FINAL ANSWER
9) Japanese conglomerate whose slogan is "Inspire the Next"
    _____ the Woods (Tony-winning musical)
10) Blackthorn
      Tight, like rope
      Dachshund's doctor
11) Wonderment
      Beer company headquartered in Colorado
      Mausoleum
12) Laundromat machine that isn't a dryer
      "Shine a Little Love" band
13) City that's home to the University of Michigan
      Sleeping spot hiding in what looks like a giant cupboard
14) Posterior
      Bendy and the _____ Machine (episodic indie game)
      Emulate Charles Lindbergh
15) Prefix or suffix meaning "skin"
      As well
      Exclamation from an excited cowboy (or My Little Pony's Applejack)

DOWN
1) One of Sauron's monstrous minions
    Precious stone
    Clio or César, e.g.
2) Black-eyed veggie
    The first Apple computer to have no floppy drive
    "Way down upon the _____ river..."
3) Long-running show currently hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, for short
    Ancient Rome's version of Hera
    WWE wrestler Brock
4) Ecuador's capital
    "As I see it", in texting
    Injure
5) Loosen laces
    Someone who patches together fabrics to make a quilt
6) Ice cream brand known as Dreyer's in the western US
    Bunny's tail
    Path of Pluto
7) "Oh, hi. So, how are you holding up? Because I'm _____!" (memorable Portal 2 quote)
    She's being kissed by Lennon on the cover of his Double Fantasy
8) Channel that airs Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker's Wild
    AutoTrader.com competitor
    Defunct studio that distributed Disney's early animated films
9) Thrown object's trajectory
    Greek general who lent his name to a type of costly victory
10) _____ the Greek (1964 Best Picture nominee)
      ABC block that airs Grey's Anatomy and other Shondaland shows
      Online bidding site
11) Type of plane rescue over water
      Garlic bulb segment
12) Community that waves a rainbow flag, initially
      Port in many LCD TVs
      Velma's rival in Chicago
13) Reflective power of a planet
      2004 Ben Stiller/Jack Black film named after a Deadly Sin
      "Humbug!"
14) Settled (down)
      Twelve-_____ program
      H, in Ancient Greece
15) Arabian ruler (Var.)
      Mel who was the youngest player to hit 100 home runs
      Condensation on a lawn

Apologies in advance for some of the less-than-optimal entries in this one. This was a hard grid to construct for me, so I kinda had to resort to those just to complete it. Anyways, 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!