𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #188: Squeezed in the Middle 12

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!

PUZZLE #188

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 12

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: a brand name

CENTERS
1) Giant bird that carried off Sinbad the Sailor
2) Sarah McLachlan song that hit #3 in 1998
3) Korean drum (Okay, I doubt you'll know this; just take a male deer and subtract the third letter)
4) Sean who played Samwise
5) "Cheap Thrills" singer
6) The Grouchy Ladybug author/illustrator Eric
7) Natural balm found in some Kleenex tissues

WHOLES
* Female ninja-in-training from the Street Fighter games
* Former Detroit Piston Thomas
* Heavenly headwear
* Pokémon trainer whose eyes are always shut
* Sampling some ice cream, say
* The _____ Pumpernickel (Looney Tunes short)
* Unit for measuring angles

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!