Tuff Crosswords

The second entry in Tuff Crosswords' Themed Vowelless series. And it is a series now, because there's two of them. This one is inspired by a Joe Krozel puzzle from 2008. Fair warning: I think this one is *very hard* due to its vowelless nature and the restriction on the entries formed by its gimmick. While it's technically possible to go in blind, I'd recommend using the spoiler under the grid, as it'll really help if you get stuck. But for now all I'll say is: the two seven-letter entries in the center are the same forward and backward for a reason. This grid is identical when it's rotated 180 degrees. This means every letter has a copy in the opposite position of the grid. If the first across entry of the grid was STH GRN (Seth Green) the last across entry would be NRGHTS (unrighteous) and so on and so forth. So if you can't figure out a letter, check in the opposite position.

 Inspired by that one Venn diagram.

A themed vowelless crossword! I've had some ideas for consonant-based themes floating around, but regular crosswords didn't seem like the appropriate medium for them, so I'm making them vowelless. I think it strengthens the effect, and it's way easier to fill. Vowelless crosswords are like crosswords on easy mode from a constructing viewpoint - you cant get a ton of fun fill in there, and the grid is extremely flexible. While I'm sure they're out there, I haven't seen any fully-themed vowelless crosswords before, so hopefully this is a fun experience for you as well. Some notes on the puzzle itself: AEIOU are removed from each answer - I've made sure that 'Y' isn't in any of the full words. There's a couple of abbreviations in there, but they act enough like regular words that I'm just giving their length - no periods, etc. So be careful around any short-length words.