I'd come back to this one when you have other things (if it helps, its a onomatopoeia - just a bad one)
8A
Best podcaster (spits straight facts)
11A
Land of the Darios
Verticales
1D
The CRISPR attacks/cuts
2D
The worth of Tetris
3D
If you have a league containing Kevin, Stephen, Tim, Kobe and Michael and you imagine it as "1D" then use CRISPR to insert this clue, you would end up with "5A"
4D
State of living
6D
Super ____ (pretty important in a sport that has about as desciptive a name as your main sport)
9D
Medium Sized Battery
10D
"not able to read the room" (mb about this one, its hard to make everything fit perfectly but this is directly form Wikipedia)