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Amazing Discoveries

It's a brave new word.

This puzzle explores history's greatest discoveries. Solve clues about famous explorers, New World geography, and pivotal 'Eureka!' moments.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

1.___ to light (uncovered)
5.Device used to digitize old findings
9.Spicy pepper from a New World region
10.State before a 'Eureka!' moment
11.Like Grace, or a world-changing discovery

Down

2.Puerto ___, a New World island
3.'I'm ___ Be (500 Miles)' (The Proclaimers hit)
4.Number of discovery vessels in Columbus's fleet
5.Gear for underwater exploration
6.Juan Manuel de ___, explorer of San Francisco Bay
7.Like the world Columbus sailed to
8.Company whose massive fraud was uncovered in 2001

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