THIRTY: Core Lore

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Across
  1. 2. Family title that allows for all the perks of parenting with a built-in return policy?
  2. 6. Title of a short homemade film made in the early 2000s.
  3. 7. Strategic educational product focused on 1-to-1 reading intervention.
  4. 9. Annual calendar page where extremities officially begin their long winter deep freeze?
  5. 10. "First day on the job!" location for a rookie middle school teacher, Abbr.
  6. 11. Time of year when extremities finally launch their annual spring thaw?
  7. 12. Joint that requires a meticulous post-operative physical therapy regimen.
Down
  1. 1. Local household executive
  2. 3. The professional pursuit of becoming your own boss, just so you can finally work for a guy who makes you work the weekends?
  3. 4. The number of candles required to officially end your twenties this August?
  4. 5. Your newest, most exciting title right now (and the literal center of this puzzle!)
  5. 8. A key characteristic of a phonics-based phoneme training book, say.
  6. 9. Cryptic shorthand for a project at the office that took on a whole new meaning.