Mother Tongue

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Across
  1. 4. A political gangster from Shanghai (two words)
  2. 5. Describes Mrs. Tan's English
  3. 8. How much some claim to grasp of Mrs. Tan's English
  4. 11. Amy Tan insists she is not this kind of intellectual
  5. 12. The profession of the person who angered Mrs. Tan
Down
  1. 1. Amy Tan's breakthrough novel about mothers (four words)
  2. 2. Paired with 18-across, part of a line that Amy Tan called "terrible"
  3. 3. A subject Amy Tan scored Bs in
  4. 6. A subject Amy Tan was assumed to excel in
  5. 7. Paired with 17-down, also part of the same "terrible" line
  6. 9. How Mrs. Tan described reading her daughter's best-selling book
  7. 10. A type of medical scan