Karson's first clue

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Across
  1. 3. Britney Spears breakup song post Justin Timberlake
  2. 5. UK term for the day after Christmas
  3. 8. building where John Lennon was assassinated
  4. 9. the plastic piece at the end of a shoelace
  5. 13. number one cause of power outages in the US
  6. 14. Cassidy's favorite TV show of 2019
  7. 15. Cassidy's favorite U.S. representative
  8. 17. world's largest island
  9. 18. continent where snake plants originated
Down
  1. 1. the old nine ball game of snooker
  2. 2. animal provided sound effects for Jurassic Park
  3. 4. he flew too close to the sun
  4. 6. Cassidy's horoscope sign (visual)
  5. 7. the ONLY (!) black Shakespeare character
  6. 10. Oceania cruise's Italian restaurant
  7. 11. country that won the 1930 FIFA World Cup
  8. 12. softest mineral in the world
  9. 16. ship that Charles Darwin sailed: HMS...
  10. 17. Cassidy's favorite male fantasy genre author