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phase transition that animal doctor? (3)
11 12
caused water’s cosmic 25. In broken octal, it’s a solid
origin? (7) (Wolchover) lump (1,4)
13 14 15 16
53. Smart glasses that reveal 27. Repeat this — it’s a plot! (3)
17
French scene? (3)
28. Famous cup pattern,
18 19 20 21 22 23 54. The holy grail of the player followed by the bonus its
who plays the percentage designer, Gina Ekiss, was
24 25 game (#3) paid (4,4,#1)
26 27 28 29 30 55. Sculpture item Google 30. Insulin levels can change
maps must have to give an ant’s reaction to this (3)
31 32
both location and the (Cepelewicz)
33 34 35 36 37 38
altitude (#1,11,3) 32. They do influence rainfall
but no single leaf pore can
39 DOWN
cause a bone tumor (6)
1. Orderings to watch six (Popkin)
40 41 42 43 44 45
episodes every way don’t
34. A World War initially can
46 need this last number
provoke an exclamation of
per Houston (12,#3)
47 48 49 50 51 52
cuteness (3)
(Klarreich)
35. Alter this, and you’re a
53 54 2. Upturned vehicle with
different person (3)
Canadian rapper? (3)
55 37. Up the bar, dung beetle! (3)
3. French-sounding three,
then written as Roman 38. New World lizard infects a
six — it’s a fountain of U.S. state no end (3)
ACROSS
possibilities (5) 41. Rhythmic hum squeezed
1. 15 families of this can fill 29. Assuming a curled-up through a thousand times (5)
4. Almost short form of short
any plane, but it doesn’t state but losing position
form, it tells you how fast 42. Even unborns give this
fully fit here. Just sayin’ may help cells heal
you stream (3) negative prefix (3)
(10, 5’) (Wolchover) wounds (5) (Cepelewicz)
5. There’s nothing in there 43. The Colorado Index of
11. Frontless garb becomes 31. Boys bathroom that bars
above the fog — just too Complex Networks is
a drug to reduce blood Bo? Fashion label says
much humidity (9) one, but we need more of
pressure (3) “No, no!” (2/3, 3/2)
them for thumbnails (5)
33. A shadow on a wall 6. Not the first mantra for
12. Your brain connectome (Klarreich)
lets you see around cavities (5)
remains recognizable 45. Sounds like a devilish
regardless of this, corners. It’s Canonically 7. Droplet from pill lands you
competitor of COBOL (5)
apparently (3) (McElvery) everything! (5) in a flap (3)
(Wolchover) 48. Harvard astrophysicist, in a
13. Quantum correlations can 8. Ice dwelling sophisticated
vital contribution, explained
do this to the arrow of 36. Math theory for visual enough to include an
black hole flares (3) (Sokol)
time. It’s about poetry! (7) hallucinations might English-style bathroom
inspire this cheer for (5) 49. This shirt is there, oddly, for
(Moskvitch)
Timothy Leary (2,3,4) the winning this time (3)
15. Multicolored brain map 9. Like Russell’s paradox,
(Ouellette) 51. Aim upward and disappear
evokes a chopped desk if you get wind of this
39. Toot in proper sequence to (3)
with water (7) (Brouillette) answer, you don’t get any
summon up a real band or wind (3) 52. Exclamation recognizing
17. Curare might miss the a fictional dog (4) mistake can be truncated
tail, but not a pair of legs, 10. Impartial genetic change
40. We need a drink — mixed, by object-oriented
anatomically (5) can polarize evolutionists
not wine — for this genius programming (3)
— to adapt or not is the
18. 8 years in grad school of physics (6,1) question (7,8) (Callier)
solving quantum problem.
44. To be a Quanta writer, Additional numeric clue:
Is she grim alum? No. Gee! 14. Tin in a pig’s dwelling is
first name a Middle East
(6,1) (Klarreich) insufficient (6) 1D – (47A)(54A) – (1A) ×
country and end with a
21. Major league baseball high grade (7) 16. Indian mulberry that a (18A – 55A) + 47A – 55A – 55A = 0
fan knows the game is Hebrew lord consumes? (3)
46. Not oldest fossils but
finished (2,5/3,4) squished rocks, it seems 19. Deprive a Polynesian
24. That man, oaf that he is, — when cut with his sharp princess of metal and
holds an endangered ox (4) blade (5) (Lambert) she’s an extinct bird (3)

26. Seeing data in new ways 47. Octonion sounding like 20. Leary’s odd to put it down
won award in field with a line consumed from a (3)
Freudian obstinacy and manufacturing catalog 22. Life without an end can
yes, spasms (9) (Ouellette) (#1,4,2) (Honner) inhibit cell growth (3)