December 2017 TS Crossword

Try your hand at a sciency brain teaser.

Written byEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
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BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

ACROSS 1. With 27-Across, a pioneer in DNA research (2 words) 5. Notable feature of great whites 9. Shade for a panther 10. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately” author 11. Possible source of mother of pearl 12. One cubic decimeter 14. Like a harvest moon in hue 16. Age of human history 19. First name in radium research 21. Chipped flint from the Tertiary Period 24. Lepidopterist who also wrote fiction 25. Glassware brand found in many a lab 26. Sasquatch’s Asian cousin 27. See 1-Across DOWN 1. Color of the throat of some hummingbirds 2. Shoulder blade 3. Bodies studied by limnologists 4. Urtica stinger 6. Producer of a reaction; catalyst 7. Mammal whose name means “shadow-tailed” 8. ...

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