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Across
  1. 2. comes from red
  2. 5. the world's largest producer of men's ties
  3. 6. french speaking capital
  4. 9. nickname "Satchmo"
  5. 13. state flower
  6. 14. popular steamboat
  7. 16. similar to counties
  8. 17. important crop
Down
  1. 1. private club
  2. 3. southern Creole dish
  3. 4. King of Mardi Gras
  4. 7. French and Spanish settlers
  5. 8. Huey Long
  6. 10. type of cruise on the Mississippi river
  7. 11. Cajun soup
  8. 12. Jelly Roll inventor of ______.
  9. 15. French ancestors