PUZZLE #420
BRICK BY BRICK 10
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 a television show that will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2023
ACROSS
1) Comedian Philips born in Chicago
The one worn by V from V for Vendetta resembles Guy Fawkes' face
Confuse and confound
2) Villain from Sackboy: A Big Adventure whose name means "annoy"
Shepard who was the oldest person to walk on the Moon
2009 biopic about a famous female aviator
3) Suffix for "elephant" or "serpent"
Stage _____ (leap onto a crowd during a rock concert)
Inability to distinguish musical notes
4) Meal carrier for an elementary schooler
Tree's protruding knot
5) "Good Morning Starshine" musical
Christian Louboutin product
6) 7–10, in bowling
It links up the answer to 3-Down's first clue
Trim a photo in Photoshop
7) Pulsing organs that octopi have three of
Baby Alive, for one
First number in Italian (be sure to use the feminine version)
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) _____ Geo Wild (cable channel)
Sound effect heard in the MGM logo
Jackal-headed Egyptian god whose wife is named Anput
10) Frozen character born on the Winter Solstice
Small strand of smoke
In a deadpan manner
11) Unable to eat another bite
Gal from Glasgow
12) Dutch birthplace of painter Jan Vermeer
Location for a Schoolhouse Rock song about words like "and", "but", and "or"
13) Nitwits
Operatic solo
Number of people in the new wave group Erasure
14) Noisy napper
Repeated riff in jazz music
Poetic nightfall
15) "Look at Me, I'm _____ Dee" (Grease song)
Sheltered, at sea
Letters next to "6" on a phone keypad
DOWN
1) What three monkeys can't see, hear, or speak
"Rise and _____!"
Bad-mouth like a rapper
2) Restaurant's reading material
Of prisons
Pulitzer-winning novelist Ferber
3) Plow-pulling bovines
Perseveres
1995 life-sim computer game where you play as a maned big cat
4) Sound of a cricket
Manage to pay for
5) Mind-controlling foe of Batman who's heavily inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Out-and-out
6) Cover story for a defendant
Grouch's glare
Spanish translation of "Mrs."
7) Having lots of umami taste
An American _____: Fievel Goes West
8) Construction toy with rods and connectors that debuted in the '90s
Awful aromas
The world's most populated island
9) Heath bar's competitor
Not singular, in grammar
10) Mammal that might be leaf-nosed
Bully from Hey Arnold! with a big pink bow
Genre for shows such as Made in Abyss and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
11) Pal in Puerto Rico
Smartphone orientation that's the opposite of "portrait"
12) Smallest fox breed
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred
13) Insect name that can precede "market"
British sport similar to American football (but with much less protective gear)
Line-_____ veto
14) Witness that committed perjury, say
Buck who was the first African-American MLB coach
Marley & Me star Wilson
15) Jimmy Carter's middle name
Victim of a scam
Double negative?
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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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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