Fourth of July

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• A cracked bell's silent message (7)
• Thirteen reminders of the original baker's dozen (7)
• The second man to lead, who died exactly fifty years after the start (5)
• The result of a messy divorce from a monarch (12)
• The iron stage for summer's sizzle (5)
• The oppressive weight that forced the ink to flow (7)
• The paper that officially ended the family feud (6)

Down

• The yellow smear that completes a ballpark favorite (7)
• Levies without a voice that sparked a tea party (8)
• Artistry that requires a fuse and a dark sky (11)
• Brotherly love's birthplace for a new nation (12)
• A mobile celebration that blocks the main street (6)
• A cylindrical meat of German origin but American spirit (11)
• The high price of self-rule (11)
• A bag-tossing pursuit of a wooden void (8)
• Twenty-one guns for a formal greeting (6)
• One who loves their soil more than their king (7)

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