Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-04/Crossword

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Crossword

On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crosploughshares

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Clues

Across

1  (initialism) Top-right Main Page feature  ITN 
3  (initialism) Country code for tiny island, or technology that rots the brain TV 
5  RFA closer; or an elected ruler minus the δῆμος; or a noble ruler minus the ἄρῐστος CRAT 
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  B 
8  (initialism) Some pronounce it "Annie"; some pronounce it "hell"  ANI 
9  (initialism) Wikipediocracy forefathers, or T.O.'s position for 49ers  WR 
11 (initialism) Sanders' position for Lions, or button to make edits go away  RB 
13 (initialism) Policy on article names, or swirly character in email addresses AT 
15 (initialism) Bottom-right Main Page feature  OTD 
17 Doctor of quantum consciousness crystal therapy; or noise made by sockpuppets  QUACK 
20 Guidance for new editors eager to write a page  YFA 
21 "These clues are all for twenty-somethings!" Okay, fine — the text editor that kibo and rms swore against VI 
22 (initialism) Thing that Michael Jackson wanted to know if 5-across was  OK 
23 (initialism) With respect to racial groups, an ArbCom-sanctioned topic since '11 IQ 

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2  (initialism) Top-left Main Page feature  TFA 
3  (initialism) Where you go to request a move from PMs if software obstructs  TR 
4  (initialism) Country code for tiny theocracy; series of lists of most-important articles  VA 
5  (initialism) Essay cited when, say, blocking an editor who cannot competently explain their edits. Also sometimes used in heated editor conduct discussions  CIR 
6  (initialism) Gamified introduction to Wikipedia for newbies  TWA 
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 RT 
12 (initialism) Mormon university, and locus of recent wikidrama  BYU 
14 An extremely efficient recent-changes patroller who is occasionally accused of election interference  BOT 
16 (initialism) Bottom-left Main Page feature  DYK 
17 WikiProject founded in 2012 interested in maintaining and improving GAs and FAs  QAI 
18 (initialism) Either a document listing your publications, or Wiki lingo for when you claim credit for somebody else's CV 
19 Once-popular messaging app, or a QWERTY "lol" with a left-leaning bias (of 1)  KIK 
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