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Crossword

On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crosploughshares

This crossword features quite a few initialisms and shortcuts. Click and type in each box to input a letter, but, as always, don't click enter.

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Clues

Across

1   (initialism) Top-right Main Page feature   ––– 
3   (initialism) Country code for tiny island, or technology that rots the brain  ––– 
5   RFA closer; or an elected ruler minus the δῆμος; or a noble ruler minus the ἄρῐστος  –––– 
7   For aoomers, a letter whose emoji version being put into words makes them funny; for zoomers, the most active 4ch board back in the day; for moomers the funniest (and most low-effort) thing StrawberryClock ever dared post to the Newgrounds portal; for boomers, the type of movie where Dracula fought juvenile delinquents from outer space    
8   (initialism) Some pronounce it "Annie"; some pronounce it "hell"   ––– 
9   (initialism) Wikipediocracy forefathers, or T.O.'s position for 49ers   –– 
11  (initialism) Sanders' position for Lions, or button to make edits go away   –– 
13  (initialism) Policy on article names, or swirly character in email addresses  –– 
15  (initialism) Bottom-right Main Page feature   ––– 
17  Doctor of quantum consciousness crystal therapy; or noise made by sockpuppets   ––––– 
20  Guidance for new editors eager to write a page   ––– 
21  "These clues are all for twenty-somethings!" Okay, fine — the text editor that kibo and rms swore against  –– 
22  (initialism) Thing that Michael Jackson wanted to know if 5-across was   –– 
23  (initialism) With respect to racial groups, an ArbCom-sanctioned topic since '11  –– 

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2   (initialism) Top-left Main Page feature   ––– 
3   (initialism) Where you go to request a move from PMs if software obstructs   ––– 
4   (initialism) Country code for tiny theocracy; series of lists of most-important articles   ––– 
5   (initialism) Essay cited when, say, blocking an editor who cannot competently explain their edits. Also sometimes used in heated editor conduct discussions   ––– 
6   (initialism) Gamified introduction to Wikipedia for newbies   ––– 
10  (initialism) Russian source deprecated for its tendency to publish inane crap; former(?) name of button on Twitter for when you saw inane crap and wanted your followers to as well  –– 
12  (initialism) Mormon university, and locus of recent wikidrama   ––– 
14  An extremely efficient recent-changes patroller who is occasionally accused of election interference   ––– 
16  (initialism) Bottom-left Main Page feature   ––– 
17  WikiProject founded in 2012 interested in maintaining and improving GAs and FAs   ––– 
18  (initialism) Either a document listing your publications, or Wiki lingo for when you claim credit for somebody else's  –– 
19  Once-popular messaging app, or a QWERTY "lol" with a left-leaning bias (of 1)   –––