CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH! PUZZLE #158: Brick By Brick 4

CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH!

PUZZLE #158

BRICK BY BRICK 4

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I've got gifts to open, but before I do that, I'm going to give you all one last gift of my own: a puzzle type that was requested by Brittany Trofimovich, so I hope she and everyone else enjoys this!

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 a movie that would be perfect for today (December 25th)

ACROSS
1) Sara Bareilles song with the lyrics "Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out"
    When doubled, Jim Carrey film about a lawyer forced to tell the truth
    Victoria Beckham's Spice Girls nickname
2) Cartoon cat with a magic bag of tricks
    Fencing sword
    Thought that can be bright
3) Shrek's wife
    Sammy who hit 609 home runs
    Member of a subculture that likes to wear all black
4) Star-bellied Seuss creature
    Duck _____ in the 24½th Century
5) Bug a phone
    Flamethrower-wielding character from Team Fortress 2
6) 18-wheeler
    Simon _____ (action film starring Dennis Rodman of all people)
    Pear variety named after a French province
7) They're no amateurs
    Mopes about
    Defunct TV network that aired Star Trek: Voyager
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) Deteriorate, like a tree
    Kansas City baseball team
    Partner of ready and willing
10) Yzma's henchman in The Emperor's New Groove
      _____ sequitur
      Manufacturer of noise-cancelling headphones
11) "Tom's Diner" singer Suzanne
      Barrel seen in a saloon
12) The Back to the Future movies, for one
      Positive responses
13) Sere
      Rick Springfield's character in General Hospital
      "Hello. My name is _____ Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
14) Internet connection at a restaurant
      Mipha from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for one
      Type of song you might hear today (December 25th)
15) Couch potato's spot
      Evens' opposites
      Express a viewpoint

DOWN
1) Lifelong pals, in text-speak
    Fire starter created by striking flint
    Reactions to anything adorable
2) Harness strap
    404 on a website, for example
    The Beastie Boys or The Dixie Chicks, e.g.
3) Singer Blacc who had a hit in 2014 with "The Man"
    Montana's "Oro y plata", for example
    Guitar lick
4) App where you used to upload six-second videos
    Black-_____ (ABC sitcom)
    Tech company that created the GeForce line of graphics processing units
5) On the nose
    Family Matters character whose catchphrase is "Did I do that?"
6) Maker of Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony
    Blue Muppet with a big hooked nose
7) Primus singer/bassist Claypool
    Brother of Ron Weasley who was a prefect at Hogwarts
    "It's _____ Life" (Twilight Zone episode)
8) MP3 player whose Touch model is the only one still being made
    You Don't Mess with the _____ (Adam Sandler film)
    Three feet
9) "The Fox and the Grapes" storyteller
    Vampire from Nosferatu
    Owns
10) _____ Player One (upcoming Spielberg film)
      Animator Walt who created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
11) Lawn greenery
      Insurance company with a spokeslizard
12) Any one of the Goodfeathers from Animaniacs, for example
      The Coca-Cola Company's first diet soda
      Click one's fingers
13) ___-Eaters (shoe inserts)
      Oxymoronic shrimp size
      Digital assistant introduced in 2011
14) Complete collections
      About 95% of these gemstones come from Australia
      Harold Ramis' role in Ghostbusters
15) "Don't make me laugh!"
      Erase the memory of having looked at something, somehow
      Filleted flatfish

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!