Across
- 4. Award winning movie from 2014; My favourite film from 2014, considering I too have a bad-tempered bald percussion teacher
- 6. Apartment entrance structure I painted for the elderly in ninth grade; The process tiresome but the hard part was maintaining conversation - their hearing was not very good
- 7. French duo I currently wish would release a new album considering they have not done so since award winning album Random Access Memories released in 2013
- 10. Stir-fry meal I learned to cook in Chiang Rai, Thailand; My stomach was not well after likely due to cooking in close proximity to dishwasher detergent
- 12. Spent an afternoon of my holiday cycling around this Asian city in 2018, got lost and no one spoke English; Still the most exciting highlight of the trip
- 15. Type of Chinese food sold at a restaurant I’ve regularly gone to since eighth grade; I've easily eaten there 500 times, and my mother is convinced they purposefully mix in addictive drugs into the soup
- 17. Video game that offers arbitrage of hats; I spent hundreds of hours finding buyers and offering deals, turning a profit of 100% from the 1000 USD I’ve spent
- 20. European city that I have performed in during my school Orchestra’s 2019 Performance tour; Despite the title of a comedy drama directed by Wes Anderson, the hotel I stayed in was not grand
- 21. Percussion instrument dropped on stage at the final beat of Ride of the Valkyries during my Performance Tour; Vikings used metal weapons right?
- 22. Type of oscillation I've had to explain to six different groups of people for the past three years; It's often preceded with the word simple so how it shouldn't be that difficult to understand
Down
- 1. Scottish philosopher taught in the reasoning classes of TOK; I made this philosopher into a meme that my teacher seemed to enjoy, despite his old age
- 2. Ceramic piece inspired by restaurant in ; Family complained that it doesn't count as one if it couldn't pour tea
- 3. Favourite literature read for school and analysed in my eleventh grade oral assignment; French man with an acute sense of smell murders women and then himself, would recommend
- 5. Almost died to this when I was born; Would’ve been a breathtaking way to die
- 8. Appropriate city for my performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
- 9. Word puzzle I recently got into; May or may not have inspired me to create this
- 11. For my extended essay, I confirmed that the currency in this video game is more stable than Venezuela's; Compiling data for the price basket was not a fun experience
- 13. Solid often added to beverages; I cannot understand why people would pay more to dilute their drink
- 14. Most inconsiderate animal known to man; Robbed us of our lunch and dinner during a camping trip to Sai Kung, Hong Kong, in sixth grade
- 15. Astrology, fortune telling etc. My mother has a very bad case of this, basing stock purchase decisions on a cheap toy I bought in Florida
- 16. For project week in fifth grade, a bridge making contest was held between me and my friends using sticks and rubber bands; theirs crumbled and learnt that this type of bridge was the best
- 18. Male given name derived from Latin, sometimes shortened to a five-letter name that ends with -ry; Common theme for all the clues
- 19. Chinese Painting pigment; While many recommend painting a layer of this pigment to prevent ink from spreading, I’ve always hated using it for disallowing water colour to behave naturally
- 23. City famous for gambling; I have fond memories of going deaf for three days after swimming at one of the beaches in 2019
- 24. Wooden percussion instrument my friend and I had to carry up two flights of stairs during band camp in ninth grade