Pursuit of Knowledge

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Across
  1. 2. Better than 4 across
  2. 4. Vegetarian heart
  3. 6. Awareness of a precipice
  4. 9. Thriving mound
  5. 12. Silencing Hebrew jingle
  6. 14. Takes 7 years
  7. 15. HSM karoake actor
  8. 16. Recently received a PHD
  9. 17. Math term of high importance
  10. 18. Bread variety related to baseball
Down
  1. 1. Scent
  2. 3. __ He was a famous explorer
  3. 5. Total intermission minutes at Gann play
  4. 7. Jerusalem
  5. 8. I feel like I know this song already...
  6. 10. Transitive platter
  7. 11. Acronym beginning with New
  8. 13. Fix
  9. 14. Physician + precious metal + I'm __
  10. 15. Exclamation with 12 across