Nuts for Neuroscience

Put on your thinking cap, and take on this fun challenge.

Written byStella Zawistowski
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ACROSS

1. Relating to metaphysics or epistemology
8. Perform a careful assessment on
9. ___ spruce (evergreen species found in Alaska)
10. From time to time
13. Not susceptible to a disease
15. Repetitive chant
17. Field of study that focuses on the nervous system
20. Long-necked water birds
21. Created a hybrid through breeding
23. Structure that responds to a gustatory

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1. Two homologous chromosomes, e.g.
2. Hospital fluid delivery systems: Abbr.
3. Greek letter that symbolizes angular velocity
4. Get hold of
5. Biblical cry of praise
6. Like an enzyme’s activity
7. Quadrennial calendar occurrence: 2 wds.
11. Data-processing machines
12. 12:00 AM
14. Period just before the Quaternary
16. Spike that forms during freezing weather
18. Slowly eat away
19. Olfactory sign of decomposition
22. Collection of objects

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    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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