Wow... this was really something. LOL. It took me an embarrassingly long time to pay attention to the circles. Probably would have eased the solve a bit if I noticed those. After solving a few of the first clues I thought maybe the entire first column was all Ts... so that had me sidetracked for a while. Lots of fun once I realized what I was SUPPOSED to be doing!
Haha awesome. I started just writing all of the across answers as I was brainstorming ideas. Then I was like, you know what? Let's make a weird puzzle. Thanks solving it!