BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON
ACROSS 1. Powerful extensors of the knee joint 8. Out-of-your-head part of the ear 9. Abalone’s shell lining 10. Subject of study for Jean-François Champollion 11. Blooms that may be African 12. Author of Earth in the Balance (2 wds.) 14. Asa Gray’s field 17. Grazer in estuaries of Florida 19. Viscount called “the father of empiricism” 22. Sort of finger or fossil 23. #3 on the periodic table 24. Products of a supersaturated environment DOWN 1. Event of interest to 3 Down 2 Matrix, as of solar cells 3. Eponym of a seismic scale 4. Split apart—or stick together ...
