Let's do the surface first.
Surface
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Across
1. Setting for House or Grey's Anatomy: HOSPITAL
3. Device for removing avocado interiors: PITTER
7. Preacher's position: PULPIT
8. Inscriptions on tombstones: EPITAPHS
10. 1978 single from Faith Hope and Charity: DON'T PITY ME
13. Coach/Olympian/mathematician Ottmar: HITZFELD
16. Crotaline serpent: PIT VIPER
17. Irritates maliciously: SPITES
18. Board game featuring Eyrie Dynasties and Lizard Cult: ROOT
19. Cover this with a pasty: NIPPLE
Down
1. Aspired or expected: HOPED
2. Requires reticulation before you can play SimCity: SPLINE
4. Sends a message via pipes or prison cell wall: TAPS
5. Chance to collect oneself: RESPITE
6. Personify, embody: EPITOMIZE
9. British fighter planes of the 1940s (or hot-tempered people): SPITFIRES
11. Don't stop now! You'll get there!: KEEP IT UP
12. Jollity-bearing planet: JUPITER
14. Notwithstanding: DESPITE
15. Red Storm coach Rick: PITINO
Next, let's do the underwater part.
Underwater
These are HARD TO CONSTRUCT.
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Rows
- Avow: PROFESS
Mouth-related: ORAL
- Apple, in Oslo: EPLE
Town in first season of Fargo: BEMIDJI
- Cat's job description: MOUSER
Drag a playhead: SCRUB
- Good of Stomp the Yard: MEAGAN
2006 MTV India Youth Icon Mahendra: DHONI
- Great application for constructing crosswords, when you can't connect to Google Sheets: EXCEL
Book featuring the Judgment of Solomon and the widow of Zarephath: I KINGS
- Current name of Firmum Picenum: FERMO
Sister of Sherlock and Mycroft, apparently: ENOLA
- Bad blood: ENMITY
Something to do at school: LEARN
- Neat!: NIFTY
Loved, revered: ADORED
- Composer Nobuo: UEMATSU
Symbol for a voiced bilateral fricative: BETA
- No less than myself!: EVEN I (terrible)
Monarch-related: REGNAL
- Glorious hair: MANE
Mary with a talking umbrella: POPPINS
Currents
- Lecturer with a PhD: PROFESSOR
Phone records that show you were arguing with customer service at the time the victim was garrotted, e.g.: ALIBI
Footwear for Bible movie or surfing movie: SANDALS
Bite playfully: NIP
"Leo" is a good one, but "Benedict" doesn't hit my ear well, and "Innocent" just sounds suspicious: POPE NAME
A woman in France: UNE FEMME
- Commoner
Between min and max: MIN
Psychology and Alchemy author: JUNG
The IDEA says an IEP should arrange this for students, to make sure they all get a FAPE: LRE
Jazz standard named for a citrus: TANGERINE
Tube for blood: VEIN
Rebranded Audi A4 B7: EXEO
- People who don't abstain: USERS
SNES protagonist who wields a Swallow or a mop: CRONO
100 square meters: ARE
A Dante or Pallas to set on your shelf: BUST
Flexible type of radio: AM/FM
Red, white, and yellow plugs: RCA
- "Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence," he "would advise violence": GANDHI
Revitalizing prefix: NEO
Period when you should be safe from vampires: DAYTIME
- Probabilistic phrase in yearbook superlatives: LIKELY TO
The cells that correspond to the PIT cells in the surface puzzle—the places the Creature might pull you down into—spell the answer, FOSSIL FUEL.
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