The Big Dirt Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Investigation of my own upper management (the brain)
  2. 8. Something or someone mysterious that you can't work out
  3. 10. 18-year-old global soccer phenom playing for Barcelona right now
  4. 11. 3D CAD engineering software solution I sell at my job (used especially to design planes)
  5. 16. Sonoran desert dweller whose arms always reach up to the sky
  6. 17. Author of bestselling novel Normal People, also adapted into a TV show on Hulu
  7. 19. Carrier entrusted to put this letter in your hands
  8. 20. Plant that gives the high desert its distinct sweet rain aroma
Down
  1. 1. A cheap option for a place to stay abroad
  2. 2. Navajo "____talkers" who sent indecipherable messages in WW2
  3. 3. Type of running watch that bullies you (MOVE! 4 DAYS RECOVERY! NEGATIVE VO2 MAX!)
  4. 4. Main characters of the Three Little Pigs storybook, but make it desert
  5. 6. Type of pear ripe for picking in a Tucson summer
  6. 7. Material to paint on (and my favorite gelato flavor at An's Laundromat)
  7. 9. Ultramarathon race I crewed for this past July
  8. 12. The difference between poetry and plain writing
  9. 13. People who abide by the same philosophy of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
  10. 14. Same word, two trails to run: Sabino ______, or the famous USD ______
  11. 15. To run into something with destructive force
  12. 18. My favorite kind of side, as in ___side
  13. 21. Email address that gives you all access to NYT games