Ben's 26th Birthday Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Maverick European distributor?
  2. 5. An owl's home that sounds like a side dish
  3. 8. Started w/ an iron tower and ended w/ a lot of dam canals
  4. 9. Entree that's technically a soup, perhaps
  5. 15. Soup ingredient one moment, a feline the next
  6. 16. Texas lawmen who prefer a diamond to a badge
  7. 17. Home of the blues, but it's not Tennessee
  8. 18. It has 20 districts but no states
  9. 20. Hefty guy
Down
  1. 1. Better half of a 2025 merger
  2. 2. A wild ox in a green space where a ring changed hands?
  3. 4. First spliff
  4. 6. A "fowl" name for a very sweet P
  5. 7. Mexican import
  6. 10. A la mode option
  7. 11. High-sounding first home
  8. 12. Instead of "fiancé"
  9. 13. Our favorite part of the living room
  10. 14. Augie's downfall on September 26th
  11. 19. Class we met in