Happy Star Wars Day, fellow puzzlers!
I usually make brain teasers for Star Wars Day — check out these ones from 2021, 2018, and 2017 — but this year, I felt inspired to create a crossword puzzle!
Now, this 19x puzzle might be a little challenging if you’re not steeped in SW knowledge, since the theme involves bits of Star Wars-specific wordplay.
But hopefully the crossings will help you unravel what’s going on here!
[Click here to download a PDF of the puzzle.]
After decades of movies, TV shows, novels, comic books, and all sorts of adventures, the saga of Star Wars still remains one of my favorite fictional universes. And I’m happy to bring two of my most enduring passions — Star Wars and puzzles — together again today.
Happy solving, puzzlers!
PuzzCulture 
Fun, thank you! (Definitely some deep cuts that were at the edge of or beyond my Star Wars knowledge, but the gentle non-theme clues helped a lot. After I filled them in, I had some interesting dips into the Fandom site.)
I did get naticked at the crossing of 9A and 10D (which are not, as far as I could tell, theme entries). Also, I believe a tiny typo in the clue to 4D.
Thank you for the kind words and the feedback! I have reuploaded the puzzle to correct that well-spotted typo AND to reclue that across clue to mention “rhyming,” which will hopefully help avert a natick for other solvers.