B is for Batty

Each of the sixteen clues leads to a single letter of the alphabet.
If filled in correctly, the grid will contain a coded message.
Maybe something clipped your belt will help you read it.
(One letter appears 3 times, four appear twice each.)

  1. Really good grade
  2. Tungsten
  3. Low-budget movie
  4. Dir. that "young man" should go
  5. Ending for 2- or 3-
  6. Beginning for -mail or -commerce
  7. Has higher accreditation than col.
  8. Indefinite article
  9. Enharmonic of Gx
  10. Sigmoid function graph curve
  11. Short for GOP
  12. Not as bad as NC-17
  13. Bigger than S, not as big as L
  14. Tau cross (not Celtic or Maltese)
  15. Logically, not F
  16. Magazine of Texas' third largest city
    17.
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