Enigmarch, Day 24: POWER

[tahnan]

god I'm bad at making crosswords. (EDIT: very bad, in fact; an earlier version of this puzzle had an ambiguity in the solution. That has been removed. Management shall fall on its 6A in shame.)

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Power Grid

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
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4
5
6
7

ACROSS

1. Like a line (4, hyph.)


2. Ward for critically ill patients (3, abbr.)


3. They can't be trusted (5)


4. Situation that wouldn't prevent reading the writing system of the final answer (8)


5. "Wow, look at those fireworks!" (3)


6. Heavy fencing weapon (4)


7. Surrealist Max or Senator Joni (5)

DOWN

1. It tunes the orchestra (4)


2. More sick (5)


3. Midday snooze (3)


4. Word after "pop", "religious", or "desktop" (4)


5. Birthday dessert (4)


6. Coins in Croatia; Malta moola (5)


7. "Obviously!" (3)


8. Override to a change in a manuscript (4)

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Comments

[cnoocy]

Success! Though I briefly considered trying to treat "which child with child as ow enough which" as a clue phrase.

[tahnan]

...I...what?