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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.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

1.What researchers do on the shoulders of giants?
6.Furthermore
7.The big picture, in economics
9.The perfect embodiment
11.Related to forces Newton famously explained
12.Spark for an invention
13.State in which Kekulé famously envisioned the benzene ring

Down

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

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