Day 23: Moving

The Solution

This is a rebus ("BUS," that's the only nod to any theme) crossword in which five cells contain two letters each.

Across

  • 1. Subject TOPIC
  • 5. Shout this when you apply Essence BAM
  • 8. Over in Oberhausen UBER
  • 9. Word read on human face in Purgatorio canto 23 OMO
  • 10. Japanese soup MISO
  • 11. Jabba is one HUTT
  • 12. By-the-slice chain SBARRO
  • 14. Aquamarine or emerald BERYL
  • 17. Yen URGE
  • 18. One of three missing girls in Picnic at Hanging Rock IRMA
  • 22. Nick Offerman role RON
  • 23. "Keep talking..." (2 words) GO ON
  • 24. With 25A, a type of stand ONE
  • 25. (please see 24A) NIGHT

Down

  • 1. Single antacid TUM
  • 2. Sash for a kimono OBI
  • 3. In Australia, they're full of meat PIES
  • 4. Stills collaborator CROSBY
  • 5. Yes, it's that Danish physicist again, we always love when he appears in crosswords, let's give him a big hand BOHR
  • 6. Type of leopard AMUR
  • 7. "Hakuna Matata" is one MOTTO
  • 13. Straighten up ALIGN
  • 14. Grand Canyon mount BURRO
  • 15. Noted Ghostbuster EGON
  • 16. Lacoste known as "the Crocodile" RENE
  • 19. French monarch ROI
  • 20. Worf's dad MOGH
  • 21. In Australia, it can be a bull ANT

The five double-letter cells spell out the answer, PITTSBURGH.

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