Happy Birthday, Viraj!

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Across
  1. 2. Home of the lions
  2. 4. A sweet, mushy soul food,
  3. 5. Volleyball & the power of friendship
  4. 7. Vintage Buick model
  5. 8. Author of When Democracies Die
  6. 13. Rebel code phrase
  7. 16. Brain disease commonly linked to repeated head impacts
  8. 17. My Best Enemy artist
  9. 18. Ghouls with long sharp fangs (that are Irish?)
Down
  1. 1. Need to beat my face, make it cute & savage
  2. 3. Fashionable trainer's main Pokemon
  3. 6. purple, addictive drug
  4. 9. Everything is
  5. 10. 7.9, not bad.
  6. 11. Home planet of Cassian Andor
  7. 12. School in Oz
  8. 14. Arrow Quill
  9. 15. Neglected