Daily alphabet — 2026-09-16

Across

1. 1. Popular lunch option combining cold cuts and vegetables (8)
2. 7. Media mogul who founded CNN, born in 1938. (6)
3. 8. Christmas songs often sung by carollers (5)
4. 10. Famous phonograph and record maker acquired by RCA in 1929 (6)
5. 14. Microsoft co-founder Bill who launched Windows (5)
6. 16. Controversial US diplomatic incident of the 1790s (9)
7. 17. A single grain used for planting or growing plants. (7)
8. 18. Historic Brookline apartment complex on the national register, built around a central court. (8)
9. 19. Phrase urging someone to do something uplifting or pleasing. (9)

Down

1. 2. Iconic dot-eating arcade game character introduced to the United States in 1980 (6)
2. 3. Technique for growing crystals on a substrate layer. (7)
3. 4. German tennis player with a recent US Open victory (6)
4. 5. French term for a person's pet hate or bugbear. (9)
5. 6. Iron oxide ceramic material used to make small magnetic memory rings. (7)
6. 9. Global nutrition and dietary supplement company founded in 1980 (9)
7. 11. This football club is known as the Gunners. (9)
8. 12. Basketball league for women in the USA (8)
9. 13. Colloquial term for a US Marine. (7)
10. 15. Comic strip featuring two rival spies in black and white. (8)