Ten Minute Sabbatical

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

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It is thinkable that the investigation of the behaviour of migratory birds and carrier pigeons may some day lead to the understanding of some physical process which is not yet known.

1. Calcaneal outgrowths
4. Avoided extinction?
8. Last period of the Paleozoic
9. Site of paludal events
10. Output of Karangetang
11. German astronomer Kepler
13. Conception of Mendeleev (2 wds.)
15. Figure ultimately associated with NaCl (2 wds.)
17. Female gamete
20. Sticky-footed lizard
21. Like sides of a scalene triangle
22. Hybridized
23. Predators in black and white

1. Component of a calyx2. Where salmon go to spawn3. Tibia’s setting4. Liquid in which a fetus is cushioned (2 wds.)5. Aggressive predatory foragers (2 wds.)6. City with a carbon-dated shroud7. Split along a natural line, as seedpods12. Shrubs often used in hedging13. Occurring in the open sea14. ...

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