ACROSS:
1. Container for corn or kidney beans
4. Claustrophobic medical scan
7. Singer Guthrie
8. Beaten to first base, say
9. Easy letters for the mailman to read, maybe
12. Persuaded forcefully
13. CRLS course for future teachers, abbr.
14. 2023 movie starring Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott
18. Where Don Lockwood is “singin’” in a 1952 film
20. Alternate to a fishing rod, maybe
21. Paul of The Batman
22. “Old MacDonald” refrain
23. Opposite of NNW

DOWN:
1. Shoe with a “sport mode”
2. In addition to
3. Classic feature (or lack thereof) of babies and old people
4. Shout from Fozzy Bear during The Muppet Movie finale
5. Five-time SNL host Rudd
6. Word that often has an unnecessary apostrophe
7. Variant of bio or calculus classes
10. Ancient home to Minos and the Minotaur
11. Honda collection, say
14. ____ Brak, city east of Tel Aviv
15. A Fish Called Wanda character who says of his name “it means
eight”
16. Author Sarah who penned A Court of Thorns and Roses
17. Tangent = ____ ÷ cosine

18. Suffix found at the ends of morph- and equ-
19. It means no, famously

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