Half birthday

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Across
  1. 3. WSJ competitor
  2. 5. Sound of creation in Hindu scripture / Jacques or Pierre
  3. 6. "Honey" or "sugar" alternative
  4. 11. Classic board game
  5. 15. The UK's labour, for one
  6. 16. Like the white rabbit
  7. 17. Roll call response
  8. 19. Textile filling, twice
  9. 21. Korean BBQ side often made with vegetables or seafood
  10. 22. Speak Persian?
  11. 24. Eighth prime number
Down
  1. 1. Union member, of sorts
  2. 2. Praise for a boxer, at times
  3. 4. What an angry employee might give a boss
  4. 7. Thought expressed in American Sign Language by extending the pinkie, thumb and index finger
  5. 8. Litter member
  6. 9. Someone new / Statistical measure
  7. 10. Word before "card" or "cake"
  8. 12. It's exposed many times during the singing of "YMCA"
  9. 13. Like a 300 game in bowling
  10. 14. Better ____
  11. 18. Very affectionate
  12. 20. Word before stamp or young
  13. 23. Reduplicative girl's name