Puzzle 19

What the "R" stands for in the stage name H.E.R.

Encouraged someone through example

Hinged blades used to cut paper, fabric etc.

Played a baseball club manager in Moneyball

Scottish poet Robert Burns, aka the Bard of __

__ cell; breakaway group of an enemy troop

Feeling the emotional impact of a bad day

US state that is home to the HQ of the CIA

Mathematician with interlocking circles

Attacking another country, incursion