Pretty Much the New York Times

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Across
  1. 4. The spice of life (or at least the best one to make puns from)
  2. 5. the most important ingredient in pretzels and spring roll dipping sauces
  3. 8. impossible game from Gino
  4. 10. weird name for a team, probably why Jose didn't coach them
  5. 11. color of the deli that makes a 75% butter waffle
Down
  1. 1. the park that made us stop going to other parks
  2. 2. A great day for
  3. 3. the store that you thought had the best hand sanitizer
  4. 6. Rutabaga but not German
  5. 7. a great lake
  6. 9. essential pumpkin carving tool
  7. 12. we might have broken this attempting to visit the quarry(ies)