PUZZLE #210: Link-Letters 6

PUZZLE #210

LINK-LETTERS 6

Merry Christmas Eve! Today's offering is one that I've done before, but the formatting of it has changed a bit from the previous times that I've done it, and the directions have been changed slightly to reflect that. Read on to see what I mean...

There are two clues for each numbered row. The answers to each row's first clue go in the squares to the left of the first black bar in each correspondingly numbered row in the puzzle's grid, and the answers to the second clue go into the squares to the right of the second black bar. Then a single letter (the "Link-Letter") goes in the square in the middle to complete a single word that reads all the way across. For example, if the two words are CON and ACT, you can put a "T" between them to get CONTACT.

Once you've filled out all eight rows, the central letters will spell out two words reading down. Add a letter between those two words in the red square to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: An animal

1) Vehicles with periscopes
    Phoenix Wright: _____ Attorney
2) _____-Ra: Princess of Power ('80s cartoon)
    Fantastic Four member who says "It's clobberin' time!"
3) Montana birthplace of Evel Knievel
    Sugar Ray song with the lyrics "All around the world, statues crumble for me"
4) It's read by a Blu-ray player
    Use a blue pencil, perhaps
5) ___ XING (street sign)
    Chuck Woolery-hosted game show named after one of the seven deadly sins
6) Tutu-wearing mammal from a Fantasia segment
    City that wasn't built in a day
7) He loved Lucy
    Basketball Hall of Famer Archibald
8) The title character of 2017's Ferdinand, for one
    Metal whose elemental symbol is "Sn"

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!