The 2020 Disaster-in-Review Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Earthquakes in this US territory further crippled an island still dealing with hurricane damage from 2017
  2. 6. Reports of this North Korean dictator’s demise in April were greatly exaggerated.
  3. 8. First arriving in May, these visitors from Japan were big in the Pacific Northwest and can destroy honeybee colonies quickly
  4. 9. A blue star located in this galaxy has vanished without the expected supernova explosion, stumping scientists
  5. 10. This seemingly random storm tore across Nebraska and Iowa with little warning of its severity. Cedar Rapids remains devastated by its effects
  6. 14. This Australian airline broke its records with the fastest-selling tickets in the company’s history for a ‘flight to nowhere.’
  7. 15. Specifically for the wildfires in California, this rare phenomenon occurred terrifying everyone and coming in second as nightmare fuel only to its brother the Sharknado
  8. 16. Starting in Australia and occurring intensely in the western US, this annual occurrence was also notably more intense than usual this year
  9. 19. This major US military headquarters released images of an actual UFO – and this still wasn’t enough to make the major headlines.
  10. 20. The saying used to go “<diety> willing,” now is often replaced with this truncated virus name
Down
  1. 1. With the implementation of the lockdown, we found nature returning to the cities. Though the internet told a number of tales, these animals were on video in the town square of a major Thai city, upset that there were no tourists to feed them.
  2. 3. A massive explosion in this Lebanese city shocked the world when it endured a blast which could cost $10-15 billion to repair
  3. 4. Civil Unrest across the United States occurred after this government division murdered unarmed black American citizens
  4. 5. Prank, artistic statement, or messages from our alien overlords? These started showing up in the waning months of 2020 and disappeared just as mysteriously.
  5. 7. This exotic Netflix show became an overnight sensation as people entered lockdown and were desperate enough to watch anything.
  6. 11. These giant storms from the south had a particularly busy year this year. Also, a tasty mixed beverage
  7. 12. This common substance on Earth was found somewhere astonishing…. The Moon.
  8. 13. The Summer Olympic games, which were to be held in this city, were cancelled due to Coronavirus concerns. The last time the games were cancelled/postponed was in 1944 due to WW2.
  9. 17. China stood by to aid Pakistan with the plague of locusts by offering to send 100,000 of these animals to eat the insects
  10. 18. This ongoing disaster really started off the year of horror, after previously devastating a hundred years prior