Cancer Culture

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Written byStella Zawistowski

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March 2025 Spring issue crossword — Click the puzzle for a full-size, interactive version.
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ACROSS

8. Enzyme that hydrolyzes a disaccharide sugar
9. Marked by wet weather
10. Slow and continuous, in physiology
11. Conducted in a test tube or culture dish: 2 words
12. Places to write down experimental observations
14. Droop
16. One-eighth of a byte
18. Period in a human pregnancy
21. Related to non-germ cells
22. Another name for the anticancer drug paclitaxel
23. Computer owners
24. Pigment responsible for skin tanning

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1. Anticancer drug that appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 2001
2. Mars or Venus
3. Mineral that’s a 1 on the Mohs scale
4. Home country of Luis Miramontes, a co-inventor of oral contraception
5. Fissure in a glacier
6. Gap in activity
7. Data entry error, for short
13. Software trial before wide release: 2 words
15. Like a mutation present in a cell from birth
17. Strengthen, as steel
19. Salary, for example
20. Poisonous substances
21. How acidic foods taste
22. Piece used in tessellation

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Stella Zawistowski
Stella Zawistowski is one of the fastest crossword solvers in America, with multiple top-ten finishes at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and a New York Times: Sunday personal record of 4 minutes, 33 seconds. She has constructed crosswords for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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