PUZZLE #209: Brick By Brick 6

PUZZLE #209

BRICK BY BRICK 6

Two months ago, I got a comment on "Brick By Brick 5" from some unknown person that simply said "I need more brick by brick please". Well, I didn't feel like turning down that request, so here's another puzzle of that type! If that commenter just happen to read this, I hope you'll enjoy it, whoever you are!

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 an anime

ACROSS
1) Headless cabbage variety
    Don Draper, for one
    Shark Tank network
2) "Do you have Prince Albert in _____?"
    Artist Kahlo portrayed in Pixar's Coco
    Moderately hot
3) Sound of a heavy impact
    They all lead to Rome, supposedly
    Box-office bomb
4) _____ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    Classic 1993 computer game where you gun down demons
    Pet rabbit's residence
5) Controversial Jeopardy! champion Arthur
    High-pitched flutes
6) Peanutty candy bar with an exclamation point in its name
    Alley-_____ (basketball move)
7) Actress Ida who starred in the Twilight Zone episode "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"
    Good buddy
    HTML5 formatting language
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) "Bad" cholesterol letters
    Opposite of the second answer in 1-Down
    "_____ borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?!?!" (Simpsons quote)
10) Lemon meringue dessert
      Novice employee
11) T-shirt from Six Flags, e.g.
      Be a couch potato (with "out")
12) Emulate a ghost in an abandoned mansion
      Crazy contraption cartoonist Goldberg
      Hurricane's center
13) Give off, as an odor
      Pipe-unclogging brand introduced in 1923
      Mountain goat with curly horns
14) Japan's tallest mountain
      Andy Kaufman's role in Taxi
      Overdo it on the affection
15) Mobster played by Abe Vigoda in The Godfather
      Pirate's box
      Wading bird sacred in ancient Egypt

DOWN
1) "Professional Therapist" from a '90s Comedy Central cartoon
    Like a joke told too many times
    Nickname for either a steer from Rocko's Modern Life or a Playboy founder
2) Feel sore after a strenuous workout
    Chuck a baseball
    Female bounty hunter from the Metroid series
3) Pilot hired by Scrooge McDuck with a tendency to crash his vehicles
    Séance board featured in 13 Ghosts (1960)
4) What "fin" means in French
    The Ugly Truth actress Katherine
    Up to the time that
5) "I haven't the slightest idea"
    Lowest army rank: Abbv.
6) Hairstyle famously worn by Dr. J
    _____ James Dio (heavy metal singer)
    Extra songs for Rock Band 4, for example (and for short)
7) Cartoon dog who says "You know what? That makes me mad"
    "_____ Caught Stealing" (Jane's Addiction song)
    Generic cheerleader cheer
8) Will Smith song about a Florida city
    _____ Patrol (popular Nick Jr. show)
    Mad as heck
9) Make sums
    Stocking stuffer for a naughty kid
    Elephant noses
10) "Street Dreams" rapper
      What Yogi Bear has around his neck (besides a tie)
      Dory or dinghy
11) Move like a kangaroo
      Sophisticated shampoo brand?
12) So bad, it's horrible
      Two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie
      Forest's Oscar-winning role in The Last King of Scotland
13) 1995 animated film with a wolfdog hybrid voiced by Kevin Bacon
      He lives in a pineapple under the sea
14) Ugly shoes named after reptiles
      Desertlike
      Bentley from Spyro: Year of the Dragon, for one
15) Speedometer abbr.
      _____ Sremmurd (hip-hop duo)
      Former couple

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!