Innovator's Toolkit

Where bright ideas intersect.
A crossword for innovators focused on technology, science, and patent law. This puzzle explores the tools and terms of modern invention.
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Across

  • 1A
    Dark and hearty, like a Guinness
  • 6A
    A key item in an inventor's box
  • 7A
    A simple machine, essential to complex ones
  • 9A
    Conjunction often found in a patent filing
  • 11A
    Position every inventor wants to claim
  • 12A
    Tied score, or what a disruptor makes the playing field
  • 13A
    Broadcast that's anything but innovative

Down

  • 2D
    Industry of innovators, for short
  • 3D
    Relating to the womb, a focus of some biotech advances
  • 4D
    It might support a 5G antenna or a vertical farm
  • 5D
    Site of future manufacturing
  • 7D
    Like the taste of a successful prototype?
  • 8D
    To cite prior art, in patent law
  • 10D
    NASA's acronym for 'living off the land' on another planet