PUZZLE #63: Squeezed in the Middle 5

PUZZLE #63

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 5

My 64th puzzle is next week, so you'd probably expect me to do another "Squeezed in the Middle" puzzle for that milestone since it's an original creation and it got me published in GAMES Magazine. As you could probably tell from the title above, that won't be the case. I'm actually going to do something quite different for next week's puzzle, so until then, let's try our hand at this one, shall we?

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 a role-playing video game

CENTERS

1) Nickname for the kid who would become Darth Vader

2) Talk show once hosted by Regis and Kathie Lee

3) Women's fashion magazine that originated in France

4) The Mystery Machine, for one

5) Light bulbs, in classic comic strips

6) National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee Jennings-Gabarra

7) Newspaper columnist Bombeck

WHOLES

* Chris who was the Human Torch and Captain America

* "The World's Cutest Kitten" whom Garfield hates

* Pain's partner in Disney's Hercules

* Region containing Oman and Yemen

* Actor who played Star Trek's Dr. McCoy

* "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" musical

* Time-travelling instrument from a Legend of Zelda game

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!