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Across
  1. 5. This is my favorite season
  2. 7. there are 88 of these on the instrument I played growing up
  3. 8. this is my name
  4. 9. the number of pets I have
Down
  1. 1. I recently learned the hard way that this should not be completely melted when you make cookies
  2. 2. the animal that is responsible for my favorite treat (in all seasons)
  3. 3. I am trying to learn to play the tenor banjo, which has 4 of these
  4. 4. I now live in Maine, which is famous for this creature
  5. 6. While living in Los Angeles, I only saw this one famous person, and he was on a skateboard
  6. 8. I grew up in Illinois, which is the second largest producer in the US of this crop