Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-06-26/Humour

Across:
 * 1: It sheds some light on a situation
 * 5: Provides Americans and Northern Irish with a pension (abbr.)
 * 8: Also known as the dwarf buffalo!
 * 9: Lambast, search for gold, or like more than one gender
 * 10: Useful for editors opposed to 12-across
 * 12: Shortcut for a powerful group of editors often criticized as opaque
 * 13: Shortcut to WP:AfD's "put up or shut up"
 * 16: Prevents ropes on a ship from slip slidin' away
 * 20: Shortcut that should not be confused with 12-across
 * 21: Circlejerk?
 * 22: Shortcut for communication via edit summary
 * 23: 2013 film Star ____ nto Darkness

Down:
 * 1: NBA team once home to Kobe and Magic
 * 2: Shortcut whose sisters include WP:POPCORN and formerly WP:MORDOR
 * 3: Shortcut; alludes to the sysop's sceptre
 * 4: The Earwig's is from hell
 * 5: Cowboy's accessory for horse direction
 * 6: It's on Simon & Garfunkel's shopping list, along with parsley and thyme
 * 7: Shortcut whose sister is WP:AN3
 * 11: In Minecraft, it creeps out the creepers
 * 13: Shortcut: they rake in tens of thousands of views a day
 * 14: The first step is to not do any
 * 15: They cage the lungs
 * 17: 12-across up
 * 18: "It's just a number, it's just a number, it's just a number..."; or, shortcut to the senescent brigade
 * 19: Shortcut to Wikipedia's preeminent hookers

Green boxes: Shortcut to a warning not to climb this dressed as Spider-Man

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Note: the next crossword appeared in the 24 December 2023 issue, in its own dedicated column.