Students, may I have your attention please?

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Across
  1. 2. Coin no longer in production
  2. 4. Last name of Connecticut's junior senator
  3. 7. Commonly known as the "king of pop"
  4. 9. Taylor Swift's "Lavender _____"
  5. 11. Singer Springsteen
  6. 12. Homophone for a type of Japaneese sword
  7. 13. You clean these up with a vaccum, don't let the ants get to them
  8. 14. Denver airport that closed in 1995
  9. 16. A large body of water
  10. 19. French for wise
  11. 20. End of alphabet last name, last in the Upper School
  12. 21. Filmmaker Wes
  13. 22. German folktale brothers
  14. 23. Pope that succeeded John Paul II
  15. 24. E.g, ivory, eggshell, linen in spanish
  16. 26. E.g, fern, juniper, mint
Down
  1. 1. Michigan based transportation services company
  2. 3. Title animal in famous Roald Dahl book
  3. 5. Earthy bread, close to, and a father's kid
  4. 6. Plant with variety magnolia, and the state with the earliest sunsets
  5. 7. Popular Nike shoe subsidiary
  6. 8. Second POTUS, with wife Abigail
  7. 9. Famous first baseman on the 86' Mets
  8. 10. Intelligent
  9. 15. A burst of fire, plus "man"
  10. 17. Birthplace of writer John Steinbeck
  11. 18. Old McDonald profession
  12. 24. Rhode Island Ivy league university
  13. 25. E.g, aqua, turquoise, teal