After zooming out, you realize that Checkerboard Cross was part of a circuit. A crossword circuit. But wait a minute! Who decided that ‘or’ in a crossword clue allows you to choose? That must be the case, as the clues on both sides are completely unrelated, and thus you may want to use a pencil. If you manage to extract some letters from the yellow boxes, you'll want to mix them up.

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Clues

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  1. Eats a lot of food, or letters that are given to assignments, or pictures, or the country known for Jews
  2. A school transportation vehicle, or the feminine possessive pronoun
  3. Overweight, or ____ to joy
  4. Containing nitrogen, or a seafood with a light shell
  5. To remove writing from paper, or not heavy
  6. On a scale of a billionth, or to jab with a spear
  7. Chopped into small pieces but with a special tool, or visitors, or got closer to, or required
  8. Asked to show up to a party, or to include in something
  9. A memetic rainbow cat, or one time
  10. Made modifications to, or dodged, or checked someone’s work and assigned a letter to it, or a plucked string instrument
  11. To forcefully visit another country, or to buy a share in something
  12. A precious yellow metal, or a common grain food to fry
  13. Not good, or a group of people with a common goal
  14. Someone who makes something completely new, or includes in something
  15. Stopped, or to make, or a spiky thing used in sewing, or a shade of meaning
  16. Not false
  17. Language written right-to-left in cursive, or what you grab to pull a door
  18. To investigate a financial account, or requires
  19. To make something completely new, or to cause a procedure
  20. What webpages are part of, or what someone speaks
  21. Birds famously referenced in children's game, or specific biological classification, or pitches, or graphs without cycles
  22. Stones but rougher, or the protective part of a clam
Across:
  1. "I'm lovin' it" for example, or someone who studies theory
  2. A small part in a necklace, or difficult
  3. Consumes food, or a smell
  4. Places of research, or the region of the U.S. that Florida is in
  5. Not true, or a sweet snack
  6. Extra and wrong, or a TV
  7. Something that a ship transports, or a keyed musical instrument
  8. Above, or close to
  9. Started, or a huge body of water
  10. A lattice, or ground that cars move on
  11. Lazy, or not closed
  12. An assignment that must be turned in now, or to change a value
  13. A red fruit, or finished
  14. Two times, or a maximal achievement that can be broken
  15. Someone from Latin America, or the country south of the U.S.
  16. To consume food, or not on
  17. The 8th month, or not proud
  18. To spontaneously show up, or 3 as an example
  19. A wall that can be opened or closed, or things that chickens lay
  20. Not relying on others, or caveats
  21. De ____ (not de jure), or not here but in range
  22. Current (or former?) prime minister of Türkiye, or someone from the Himalayas
  23. Dropped water from the sky, or a very short unit of time
  24. Switch of two objects, or not curved
  25. Last, or makes an attempt


Word bank

APPEAR
APPLE
ARABIC
AUDIT
AUGUST
BEAD
BEGAN
BUS
CARGO
CEASED
CREATE
DOOR
DOUBLE
DUE
EAT
EATS
EDITED
EGGS
ENDED
ERASE
ERDOGAN
EVADED
EVIL
EXCHANGE
EXTRANEOUS
FACTO
FALSE
FAMOUSSLOGAN
FAT
FINAL
GEESE
GENUS
GOLD
GORGES
GRADED
GRADES
GRATED
GRID
GUESTS
GUITAR
HARD
HER
HERE
HUMBLE
IDLE
IMAGES
INDEPENDENT
INTERNET
INVADE
INVENT
INVENTOR
INVEST
INVITED
INVOKE
INVOLVE
INVOLVES
ISRAEL
LABORATORIES
LANGUAGE
LATINO
LIGHT
LIMITATIONS
MEXICO
NANO
NEAR
NEARED
NEEDED
NEEDLE
NEEDS
NITRIC
NUANCE
NUMBER
NYAN
OCEAN
ODE
ODOR
OFF
ONCE
OPEN
OVER
PIANO
RAINED
RECORD
RICE
ROAD
ROCKS
SECOND
SET
SHELL
SHRIMP
SOUTHEASTERN
STAB
STRAIGHT
TEAM
TELEVISION
THEORETICIAN
THERE
TIBETAN
TONES
TREAT
TREES
TRIES
TRUE