Puzzles
December 2011 Crossword
December 2011 Chemistry Wordoku
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Solve this ‘wordoku’ in the same way as a sudoku with letters instead of numbers
(the nine letters once in each row, column and nine-square cell). Once solved, one
of the overall diagonals contains the jumbled surname of an Italian chemist with a
dental connection.
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Solution to November 2011 Chemistry
Wordoku
The Scottish chemist hidden in the diagonal is
MACMILLAN. The winner of the November 2011 Chemistry
World Wordoku competition is R Hollingsworth, London, UK
The winner of this month’s chemistry Wordoku will
be published next month. For a chance to win a £25
book voucher, please send your completed Wordoku
to ‘CHEMISTRY WORLD PUZZLE ANSWERS’ at the
address on p2, fax to +44 (0)1223 426017 or email to
[email protected] by 15 December.
Through the lens
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7 Bertha gets letter on taking rhodium (4)
8 Mercurial idea transforms into chemist after lad leaves (5, 5)
10 Tests out of order for fattest? (8)
11 Keep lawrencium mixed for German astronomer (6)
12 Mohr works bismuth into shapes (6)
13 Element of the continent? (9)
15 Dubious ref twists leg, resulting in high score? (6, 7)
18 Mutate or change: the same! (8)
20 Add cobalt to 26 across for girl (6)
22 Sulfur meant to turn into flower part? (6)
24 Shaking large tin essential! (8)
25 Exhort mice to create heat? (10)
26 River taking a meandering line? (4)
Down
1 Aped about hearth for polygons (10)
2 Cleaner abhorrent to nature? (6)
3 Royal imp takes the French air (8)
4 Bake erbium in this glass? (6)
5 Perpetrator confused clue for botanist (8)
6 Oddly laid my egg for fruit? (4)
9 Grind their durum for dubnium (13)
14 Soluble mix of vanadium and sodium? Impossible! (10)
16 Lutetium metal I crafted into best (8)
17 Gets nice about science of heredity (8)
19 Russian chemist ditches Eve to become a botanist, pioneer of 17 across (6)
21 Convincing gent follows company (6)
23 Titanium axe loses edge, recast in cab (4)
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SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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In keeping with the Christmas theme, here’s a coloured scanning electron micrograph
(SEM) of a section of leaf from a Christmas rose (Helleborus niger). Below the leaf’s
surface you can see vertical cells containing chloroplasts (small spheres) and the
vascular bundle (blue)
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Solution to November 2011
crossword
The winner of the November 2011
Chemistry World crossword competition
is B J Wain, Shrewsbury, UK
The winner of this month’s crossword will
be published next month. For a chance to
win a £25 book voucher, please send your
completed crossword to ‘CHEMISTRY
WORLD PUZZLE ANSWERS’ at the
address on p2, fax to +44 (0)1223 426017
or email to [email protected] by
15 December.
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