Getting Down

Amer. intel agcy. whose 'list of ___ controversies' Wikipedia page takes up 25 sheets (incl. citations) of A4 paper as of this writing but whose website claims they actually do a lot of good things so who should I believe?

German mathematician credited with the development of something called 'normal distribution' but I've only heard his name used in reference to curves, probably because I don't hang out with nerds.

Popular brand of iced tea confusingly headquartered in New York (then again, can you imagine thinking to yourself 'boy howdy, am I thirsty - I sure could go for a frosty can of New York right now!' What would New York iced tea taste like? Probably rats.)

The most prolific Japanese recording artist operating in the noise genre (over 500 releases last I checked, and I've heard most of them - because I'm dumb and I don't value my time as much as I probably should!)

Hot dog, or a fancier hot dog (there's some debate as to how synonymous hot dogs actually are here and I appreciate pedantry as much as the next person but imagine with everything that's going on in the world if this was the hill you chose to die on)

Slavic monarchs. EXPLICITLY Slavic monarchs. You can use the other spelling if you want - the one that also gets used in the west as slang for 'authority' or 'kingpin'. Honest, you can. I've even set up the Schrödinger squares for it. But you'll feel dumb because it'll make the affected down crossings completely wrong.

Disgusted reactions like one might utter if they stepped in animal droppings, walked in on their grandparents at the sex dungeon, stepped in their grandparents' droppings, walked in on animals at the animal sex dungeon, drank a frosty can of New York™ iced tea, walked in on their grandparents at the animal sex dungeon, tried to solve this puzzle using the across clues, etc.

Law allowing excerpts of copyrighted material to feature in your own work

Loud, circular power tool (and a soundalike for 8A's music)

Lines of constant pressure on a weather map (not a rectangular candy product marketed at recluses)

Large, fantastic, significant, etc.

Makes out in Manchester, kisses in Kent, smooches in Salford...

Mornings, abbr.

Feeling of overwhelming wonderment