THE CROW

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Across
  1. 3. Lever that forces entry, not a drinking establishment
  2. 6. Distance untroubled by roads or reality
  3. 7. Crows, Contradictions to the rule, ornithologically speaking
  4. 9. Crow, Singer-songwriter with an avian surname and Grammy shelf
  5. 10. Swallowing pride, not poultry
  6. 12. With the Crows, Awake before dawn, whether you want to be or not
  7. 14. Darkly poetic collective that sounds worse than it is
  8. 16. Evidence of laughter etched near the eyes
  9. 17. Crows, Band whose name suggests math but delivers melancholy
Down
  1. 1. Flight gear that can also be ruffled
  2. 2. Thinker lacking gray matter, metaphorically winged
  3. 3. Caw, Soundtrack of a crow’s conversation
  4. 4. Elevated perch for a lookout—or a metaphorical high horse
  5. 5. Ominous bird that helped make an author immortal
  6. 8. Tool of a bird and slang for a nose
  7. 11. Crow, Name tied to America’s legalized segregation era
  8. 13. Master of morbid verse whose bird wouldn’t stop talking
  9. 15. Gladiator star sharing a surname with a noisy black bird