McAvoy-Bickford Crosswords

This puzzle's been sitting waiting for me to do something with it for quite a while now, so I decided to put it up on the blog. As always it is available as both a PuzzleMe and a pdf. The passage of time has erased any comments I might have ever had about the grid, unfortunately, so I don't know where this theme idea came from. PDF   Thanks for solving!

 Hello all! This is the first puzzle on my brand-new crossword blog. I made it a while ago and because it's 17x17 thought I would save it for an opportunity like this. Here's it as both an AmuseLabs and a pdf, for your solving enjoyment. Please notify me if you spot any tech errors (or cluing errors, etc.) In the future, I'll post puzzles here occasionally, and try to have a working RSS feed up. Most are going to be themed probably, and some will be odd sizes. I can't guarantee any kind of standard difficulty. A lot might not quite meet mainstream standards, but I hope they are still fun to solve. Difficulty: Probably not too hard PDF?