HARD

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Across
  1. 6. Weather pattern after three coinflips go tails
  2. 7. The health economy’s bull market
  3. 9. Empress who makes minions unionize
  4. 13. Split push tax form
  5. 14. Things under the Freljord that prefer subzero networking
  6. 15. Teemo maestro whose shrooms write dissertations (deep community ref)
  7. 16. What a jungler does when “be right there” lasts 10 minutes (two-word answer)
  8. 17. Beholder of true damage truths
  9. 22. Big picture calls that lose friends in five words
  10. 23. Hourglass that turns throws into highlight reels
  11. 26. What chat says when physics disagrees (cryptic-ish: OUT + PLAYED = “not in the game anymore”)
  12. 28. Lamppost enjoyer (cryptic def)
  13. 29. Strategy or tragedy, tower decides (meme-meta)
  14. 31. City of solutions that create problems to sell
  15. 34. Realm-lifts you to HR for a private talk
  16. 35. Smite? Never heard of her (swing moment)
  17. 37. Blue-collar tool for purple monsters
  18. 38. The Unkillable Demon King (esports title)
  19. 39. Frame-perfect spacing, not your microwave setting
  20. 40. Notebook where overconfident mages write memoirs
Down
  1. 1. Where lanes are drawn and friendships erased (cryptic-ish: “summons” + “rift” = what you open and fall into)
  2. 2. Dragons and friends you somehow “didn’t have prio for”
  3. 3. Removed but never forgotten zap for crit lovers
  4. 4. Song that means the broadcast team is sweating
  5. 5. Bruiser’s can-opener
  6. 8. Summoner spell: “No, you don’t”
  7. 10. Shorthand for a blade that makes ADCs poetry slam health bars
  8. 11. Button labeled “Oops”
  9. 12. What wins games, allegedly; what solo queue buys, allegedly not
  10. 18. Evolves by eating your isolated hopes
  11. 19. Reset machine that pretends ult channel is a suggestion
  12. 20. Tailwind for those who like to hit three times at once
  13. 21. Exporter of chaos, yordle-sized
  14. 24. Lethality lunch money
  15. 25. Desert empire where the hourglass is literal
  16. 27. City of progress that invents problems to solve
  17. 28. Post-game diagnosis requiring zero medical school
  18. 30. City that said “what’s the worst that could Void-happen?”
  19. 32. Goes where he pleases, sometimes through your nexus
  20. 33. Necklace that politely declines crowd control
  21. 36. Scientist who considers “chase me” a thesis defense