Filling in the HTML version of the grid is going to be really tedious for me so I'll just tell you the answers to the clues:
Across
- Gardner of The Barefoot Contessa: AVA
- Phonologist Rubach: JERZY (my advisor in grad school)
- It can be vacant or sorry: LOT
- Clever answer for this puzzle: ALULA
- Electric Mayhem percussionist: ANIMAL
- Unbearable Lightness of Being deuteragonist: TEREZA
- The answer to this one is "ANCOR" and I'm not going to waste my time or yours coming up with some stupid clue for it: ANCOR
- Green second banana: LUIGI
- States bordered by Virginia and Georgia: CAROLINAS
- Mature bug stage: IMAGO
Down
- World created by Eru Ilúvatar: EA
- Like DNA, but, the other one: RNA
- Metal to put on your nose: ZINC
- Assn. of young Christian men: YMCA
- Lx.: pfv. asp.: AOR
- Prom venue: BALLROOM
- Engineer Robotnik: IVO
- Worrying car noise: RATTLING
- USSR successors in '92 Olympiad: EUN
- In Crypt of the Necrodancer, she does all the zones in reverse: ARIA
- What the letters "O" and "N" signify here: LEGS
- What you would be, if looks could kill: UZI
The answer ALULA appears in the grid in roughly the place where a bird's alula is.
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