PUZZLE #313
BRICK BY BRICK 8
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 every Down column, though you'll have to figure out what those letters are.
This week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of a popular song from the 1970s
ACROSS
1) "Here I come to _____ the day!" (quote from Mighty Mouse)
Monopoly space between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place
Clickable desktop image
2) Rome's largest fountain
Long bone next to the radius
Bull-ish lawnmower brand
3) Milky white heron
"God of Mischief" portrayed by Tom Hiddleston
Once more from the top
4) Newspaper with 130 Pulitzer Prizes: Abbr.
Whirl around, like Crash Bandicoot
Baby beluga
5) Symbol at the start of a music staff
"High" shoe type
Brandish a big blade
6) White shape on a soccer ball
Opened a DVD player's tray
7) TV channel originally known as PAX
In a bygone time
Tetley beverage
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) Monkey that Genie turned into an elephant in Aladdin (1992)
Honey _____ Cheerios
Saucer in the sky, supposedly
10) TV-14 and PG-13, for two
Pseudoscience that wanted to turn copper into gold
11) Home of Japan's largest manga museum
Hawaii's state dance
Layered cookie that once had a Caramel Apple flavor
12) Initials on an invitation
Owned by that lady
Trashy tabloid
13) Soft and white French cheese
Large film format that won a Technical Oscar in 1997
A Scanner Darkly star Reeves
14) Lunch or brunch, e.g.
Dwayne Johnson's role in Moana
Make a few changes
15) Star Fox 64 character who's a gray howling canine
People seen on C-SPAN, for short
Mario _____ Tour (mobile game)
DOWN
1) Malodorous odor
Are You Afraid of the _____? ('90s Nickelodeon show)
Parent company of Rolls-Royce
2) Diamond-shaped pattern on some socks
Auction site that owns StubHub
Old car company from the founder of Oldsmobile
3) Polygon's corner
Video game stage that teaches you how to play it
4) WALL-E's love
County event with a livestock show
Last word of an FDR quote regarding fear
5) Part of FWIW or TGIF
Female friend of Gumby with blonde hair and shapeshifting abilities
Mo. when Daylight Saving Time ends in America
6) Calling on a cell
_____ My Ride (2000s reality show hosted by Xzibit)
7) Lemur King from the Madagascar series
Derriere
Tiny and adorable Demon Lord from Endro! (or a former Chinese chairman)
8) Heart song that spent three weeks at #1
Word following "pop" or "op"
Moving company with orange and white trucks
9) Cartoonist's liquid
Building block company that released Super Mario sets in 2020
The Handmaid's Tale actress Bledel
10) Not of the clergy
Jokey and silly
11) Stupefied state
Fast food chain serving Popcorn Nuggets
Punk subgenre performed by Less Than Jake and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
12) Type of tilted text
Silver salmon
Antlered animal on Idaho's state flag
13) Colored bits that rain on $100,000 winners of Wheel of Fortune
List of slip-ups
14) Minecraft's mineral resource
Internet slang also known as "1337"
Not as nice
15) _____ Hear This (surreal Looney Tunes short)
June 6, 1944
Chobani product
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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
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