First Attempt

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Across
  1. 3. Canal pals?
  2. 6. Many Indigenous peoples in Canada
  3. 9. Help study
  4. 11. Something to give up
  5. 12. Me writing or you solving
  6. 14. It could describe good fashion, a type of coffee, or a pathetic person
  7. 16. Water or honeydew
  8. 18. Yuri's opposite
  9. 20. ASOIAF author
  10. 23. Type of fiction
  11. 24. A frightening place to spend the night
  12. 28. Foretell an outcome
  13. 29. Woman's best friend?
  14. 31. Something one gets stuck in
  15. 32. Tight fashion accessory
  16. 35. Babies take them
  17. 37. Pokémon who walks and talks
  18. 38. It's said to be the deepest
  19. 39. First episode of a TV series
  20. 40. First collection of songs a musician puts out
  21. 41. 10th month
  22. 42. Sacred oath
  23. 43. First episode of a TV season
Down
  1. 1. Lobe loops?
  2. 2. Elemental manipulation in hit franchise
  3. 4. A rapper might have them
  4. 5. Roman three
  5. 7. Modern cable channel alternative
  6. 8. Double it for a cheerleading aid
  7. 10. Hoppy little critter
  8. 13. Regimen for many trans folks
  9. 15. Close your lips as tight as a handbag?
  10. 17. They're often mistaken for ravens
  11. 19. First place to perform for many artists
  12. 21. Reverse a mistake
  13. 22. Word after morning or petting
  14. 25. A pain in the neck
  15. 26. Ascending strike from below
  16. 27. Before one
  17. 28. An order for birds?
  18. 30. What a mosquito in amber might contain
  19. 33. '70s art-punk band with an "Uncontrollable Urge"
  20. 34. The Empire's successor in the Star Wars universe
  21. 36. Dinner is served