PUZZLE #609
BRICK BY BRICK 11
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 a 1990s sitcom
ACROSS
1) The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express author Christie
Not powered on
Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two
2) Fungus such as Iceland moss (even though it's not closely related to moss)
Word following "turf" or "Trojan"
Cote d'_____ (the French Riviera)
3) Too, too much
Environmentally-friendly prefix
_____ chocolate M&M's
4) Jeopardy (and not the kind seen on a quiz show)
Paper-delivery kids that went on strike in 1889
5) Phileas who went around the world in 80 days
Original The Closer cable network
6) Subtle summons that's surprisingly legal to play in Scrabble
Prior to, poetically
City that's home to Iowa State University
7) Letters between a real name and a nickname
Like something that can't be bought anywhere
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) Ninths, after being halved
Suffix for "velvet"
10) Captain of the Nautilus submarine in two Jules Verne stories
Abbr. on a Broadway sign that basically means "no seats left"
"Puppy Love" singer Paul
11) Ignited
Spheres such as the Dragon Balls from Dragon Ball
12) Take money from the bank (legally, of course)
Enemy of Spider-Man dressed like a horned gray mammal
13) Long-Haired ____ (short film with Bugs Bunny dressed as a conductor)
Had ham, perhaps
Site for many brawls in many western films
14) Frankenstein's lab assistant not present in the original Frankenstein novel
Spanish version of "Huh??"
Indiana or Illinois, on a Monopoly board
15) "Danger _____" (Kenny Loggins hit)
Little rascal
Pyramid builders of Chichén Itzá
DOWN
1) Skewed
Cover with asphalt or blacktop
Kraft Cheez _____
2) Donate to a blood drive, say
Bundle of yarn
Parrot who has his own musical number in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar
3) Taiwanese PC manufacturer
Beetle Bailey's short-tempered superior
1982 sci-fi film with a villainous Master Control Program
4) "_____ Shop" (Macklemore song where he raps about buying used clothes)
Volt ÷ ampere
At this very location
5) "Greetings!"
Numerous, like stories that were never narrated
6) Press _____ key to continue
Magical being such as Shazzan or Kazaam
Resident of Basra or Baghdad
7) Christians' pre-meal prayer
21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street star Channing
8) A Prayer for _____ Meany (John Irving novel)
Chris who played both Captain America and the Human Torch
Cry like a willow?
9) Sapphire's side
Gray Great Dane owned by the Jetsons
10) :(
Blood of the Greek gods
Yosemite _____ (Looney Tunes cowboy)
11) Purposefully delays play, in the NFL
Cheer for an Italian diva
12) Door hinge holder
One-time Chinese chairman Zedong
The Olsen twin who's slightly older by two minutes
13) Playable protagonist of Assassin's Creed II
Buddy who played Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies
New York college with a name that's three-fourths vowels
14) In a proper manner
Aerodynamic
Part of a sentence such as "part" or "sentence"
15) Majorly miffs
The highest active volcano in Europe
Lowest dollar denominations in the board game Spy Alley
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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
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