Tuff Crosswords

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.

Today's puzzle isn't ~quite~ a crossword, but it still involves words crossing, or rather weaving. Fun fact about these puzzles - there are multiple arrangements which all work - see some of the alternate versions of the example. Here's a PDF  for the puzzle And the Solution

 Every circle in this puzzle contains a two-letter atomic symbol for a unique element.

Every down answer in this crossword is a theme entry. But wait, there's more! This crossword has a couple of BONUS themers There are two Across entries in this puzzle which conform to the theme. Can you find them?

Hope you enjoy! Here are some of the entries which unfortunately didn't make it in but which are still fun.  PHYTOPLANKTON - PLANT STRONGER - SONG (Kelly Clarkson my Beloved) BUDWEISER - BEER

A twist on a fairly common formula. Now each theme category has TWO words hidden inside it which belong to that category. Except for the last one - that has three (hence the different shading colors). Now, it's my judgment that all of the categories are reasonable entries - however if that is not your take, I do apologize, and I offer the fact that MUSICIANS has MCA and SIA (and NAS backwards) hidden in it as a consolation, as I could not fit that in the puzzle. Click to see the PDF  

This puzzle serves two goals. First, to make the fake crossword from the Community crossword credits scene a reality; second, six actual entries already implements, to cram as many Community references into the puzzle as possible.

I'm probably still going to see it though. If nothing else for the fact that it's a battle between a character called Lang and a character called Kang.

This puzzle was originally made with movies, but those were harder to come up with good entries for. The only one I really liked split TRON across BEST RAP SONG to form BE STRONG. I needed a category that had lots of clear, short entries, so people's names was my go-to, and I think the result was a lot better. Turns out I was still able to use my favorite entry from the movies puzzle, the only difference being that RON was now split. Other movie puzzles I wasn't able to use include: T(HE) SOP(R)ANOS --> THERANOS [HER]  T(HE) SHAPE OF W(AT)ER --> THEATER [HEAT] (this one was gold too since all three parts are movie-themed Name entries I wasn't able to use include: H(AR)D ACT TO FOL(LO)W --> HARLOW [ARLO] MAD(E) A BEE(LI)NE --> MADELINE [ELI] PU(B)LIC PROP(ERT)Y --> PUBERTY [BERT] T(R)OPIC OF CAPR(ICO)RN --> TRICORN [RICO] TEA(CH) TO THE T(E)ST --> TEA CHEST [CHE] TW(IN) ENGI(NE)S --> TWINES [INES] TE(C)TONIC PL(ATE) --> TECATE [CATE] T(E)SLA ROAD(S...