Brilliant Breakthroughs

Prepare for your own 'aha!' Moment.
Explore the vocabulary of innovation in this themed crossword. Clues touch on scientific discovery, famous inventors, and the history of great ideas.
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  • 1A
    What researchers do on the shoulders of giants?
  • 6A
    Furthermore
  • 7A
    The big picture, in economics
  • 9A
    The perfect embodiment
  • 11A
    Related to forces Newton famously explained
  • 12A
    Spark for an invention
  • 13A
    State in which Kekulé famously envisioned the benzene ring

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  • 2D
    Quantum ___ (a major advance)
  • 3D
    Of war and its strategic innovations
  • 4D
    Part of the "sweat and tears" trio of hard work
  • 5D
    Groundbreaking, in a way
  • 7D
    Where big news is broken
  • 8D
    Gives credit to prior work, as in a research paper
  • 10D
    What one hopes to do with a discovery