Across
- 5. Fermented kitchen project
- 6. Currently in the onboarding process
- 7. Four years that felt like twelve
- 9. Household security system
- 11. Modern bureaucracy, and historically speaking, an emperor
- 13. Was middle, now first
- 14. Three letters that unlocked a whole new social calendar
- 15. Beloved band—or someone broadcasting from their skull
- 18. Artist cited as evidence that hip-hop is, in fact, literature. casually
- 20. Grandpa's twin
Down
- 1. Punk band in the extended family orbit, briefly
- 2. Treated like an emperor; sheds like a peasant
- 3. Elder currently in major life upgrade
- 4. Warriors?
- 8. Three letters the family understands, the USPS does not
- 10. Pandemic hobby that somehow became kitchen décor
- 12. Four letters that make Ancient Greek feel suspiciously Roman
- 16. Where zoning thrives but tacos don’t
- 17. Where one can be a professional Jew
- 19. Person with a desert/dessert connection