JOSH SHORT WORD 2

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Across
  1. 2. A famous clothing brand; end of a cycle (4)
  2. 5. Histamine hangs out here. Maybe because it found a home that shares its appreciation for gastric acid (3)
  3. 6. Fool me once I won't forget, fool me twice I'll turn you red (3)
  4. 8. I like to ruin a certain mediator's life, I do my work outside (3)
  5. 10. People often say I loop around my actions 7 times… (4)
  6. 13. Along with my bestie I break it down, because I'm cool on the INSIDE (4)
  7. 16. Leader of the wolf pack (5)
  8. 18. Complimentary, or cytoplasmic (4)
  9. 20. My actions get amplified when I'm performing (3)
  10. 23. I'm going to let you eat fish without dying (3)
  11. 24. Ocean alternative, or receptor reserve (4)
Down
  1. 1. Something used to open the door, see everything spill out (5)
  2. 3. Related to response (4)
  3. 4. A fluorescent sandwich (5)
  4. 7. Chromosome condenser (4)
  5. 9. I make your pan greasy and your receptor better (3)
  6. 11. Spams 200 letters on the 3' end (3)
  7. 12. Genetic Cellular Utility Assistant (3)
  8. 14. If this is large, it can be assumed that there are many spares (3)
  9. 15. I'm blood thirsty, and living in a castle, but I'm missing my empIRE (4)
  10. 16. Monkeying around in translation (3)
  11. 17. Bald people love this thing, relax! (3)
  12. 19. Used by prokaryotes as a finale to their origin story (3)
  13. 21. I don't work unless I get someone else to do the work for me (4)
  14. 22. The password to keep patients in the emergency room rather than booting them out (4)