PUZZLE #249: Squeezed in the Middle 14

PUZZLE #249

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 14

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: the name of an actress

CENTERS
1) You, in French
2) Tree creature from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3) Actress Tara who appeared in all six Sharknado films
4) Threepio's pal
5) Pile up fallen leaves, perhaps
6) Tenacious D member Kyle (AKA the one who isn't Jack Black)
7) _____ of Good Feelings (period associated with James Monroe)
8) Hawkeye became a rogue vigilante named this during the events of Avengers: Endgame

WHOLES
* Aired Seinfeld yet again, say
* Company that created tater tots: Hyph.
* Constitutional amendment regarding states' rights
* Giant tentacled sea monster of myth
* Like a poker-faced person
* Monotonously going on and on and on and.....
* Tennis player Andre who married Steffi Graf in 2001
* Tiny Toon Adventures or Animaniacs, for example

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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KqTEVHgFOkbOjINJQ3zFs2nH1NLbaVOm/view?usp=sharing