Inventor's Toolkit

Some assembly of great minds required.
Flex your entrepreneurial mind with this puzzle on tech and innovation. Features clever wordplay about business, startups, and invention.
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Across

  • 1A
    A techie's whatchamacallit
  • 7A
    Lay it on a bit too thick
  • 8A
    Create on a loom or in a boardroom pitch
  • 10A
    Startup founder's fuel, perhaps
  • 11A
    Early adopters, on Twitter or in tech
  • 14A
    Options on a settings menu
  • 15A
    Word of preference during product design
  • 16A
    What practice makes perfect

Down

  • 2D
    It's often represented by a lightbulb
  • 3D
    Strategic play, on a board or in business
  • 4D
    Triumphs over, as with R&D hurdles
  • 5D
    Welcomed at the door or on the market
  • 6D
    Have the rights to, as with a patent
  • 8D
    A person's or the public's well-being
  • 9D
    Mental or physical nimbleness
  • 12D
    The 99% of genius, per Edison
  • 13D
    The opposite of vaporware