Katie's Birthday Crossword!

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Across
  1. 3. Katie’s response to a BMA statue of a greyhound eating a hare
  2. 6. Composer of two arabesques
  3. 7. Surname of a man who runs a notable Drosophila lab at JHU
  4. 8. Tenor featured on the opera version of Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect”
  5. 11. Much-despised vegetable (fruit?) oft found in Costco salads
  6. 15. The only higher power/deity with dominion, according to Katie
  7. 17. Rapper who sings “When I was thirteen, I had my first love”
  8. 18. True crime podcast run by a mukbanger and her husband
  9. 21. The name of Katie’s first Smiski
  10. 23. Cool Math game occasionally referred to as “Papa’s Weaponeria”
Down
  1. 1. “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle”
  2. 2. Master chef who has six children
  3. 4. Novel in which a plagiarizing white women steals the manuscript of a girl who chokes on a pandan pancake
  4. 5. Name of a stuffed blue jay featured in a story post captioned “first data kinda nervy”
  5. 9. Singer of “Limbo” and Katie’s top listened to artist in 2023
  6. 10. The original official sport of Maryland prior to 2004
  7. 11. Pole-dancing, bat-swinging Japanese otter mascot
  8. 12. Film featuring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone set in Los Angeles
  9. 13. Car referenced in a sound bite that begins with “I woke up in–”
  10. 14. Nickname once used to refer to Keerthi after a particularly emotional text message
  11. 16. Online multiplayer number game that only Katie and old people play
  12. 19. Title of a playlist with a cover picture of six college freshman in Philadelphia
  13. 20. Katie; or a 5’8” student spotted at the petting zoo
  14. 22. Korean drama featuring a murderous homeroom teacher and a hot doctor