Crossword With Friends

So I recently created a crossword for you guys, but I misplaced everything except my list of words! Being too busy working on movie-related puzzles to recreate it, I asked some help from my friends (you guys know how I love layers in my puzzles).

First, I had my friend Al Literation (you may remember him) write the clues based on my words.

Then I gave the vertical answers to my friend Anna Graham to write down in the crossword image.

Finally I gave the horizontal words to my amigo Juan Hamming-Distans (what’s that, a stretch you say? Get over it, a theme is a theme) so he could write them in the crossword.

Anna and Juan each altered the words they were given to new words (their transformations did not alter the length of my words) and redrew the crossword so that they could make them fit together. That’s what you see below. You can find Al’s clues below; for each one, determine my original word and, based on whether they’re down or across, figure out what Anna or Juan did to them before placing them in the crossword (there will almost always be only one possibility). All words (my original ones and the modified ones) can be found on dictionary.com

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