1: Barista's spawn point
8: New York toy retailer's acronym
11: __ What?
13: Transparency Projector brand
15: Cube root 8
17: A particularly devilish and low-effort meal
18: Taken for a corporately-mandated test
19: Dummy
20: Stories
21: "That was way too much!" abr.
22: A piece of a race
23: Where you might find sperrys, chubbys, and thick rope
24: Charcuterie option
25: Live Long and Prosper guy
26: Singer who famously Confessed twice on the same album
27: To no longer allow in
28: Weighted or Unweighted option, in school
29: Verb conjugation to make a present participlpe or gerund
30: Nas' diss track against Jay Z, or empty space
Down
1: Forced Takeover
2: Gen Alpha noun to express admiration
3: Touchy, perhaps
4: Cape-Hating Lady
5: Poke Fun
6: Inside Every Bird's Identity, abr.
7: Christmas
8: With 2 down, to maufacture admiration about oneself. Or a place where corn grows
9: Range, or what meatball does to the scenery
10: Oddly elongated
11: Espn's biggest name-brand broadcast, abr.
12: Versatile West-African plant known as lady's fingers
13: Handsome Obi-Wan
14: I mispelled this. Hint=Shrek, beware of typo.
15. Medical term for a head hit
16. Shakira's ___ Wolf