Crossword: Scientific Literacy
This is a themed lightly challenging puzzle constructed by Charlotte Myers and edited by Manaal Mohammed. Play the online version here.
Across
1 Disobey the Hippocratic oath
7 Chinese chicken general
10 Simply must
15 Way to go
16 Campaigned
17 "The Jungle" author
18 Is christened
20 TLC toddler accessory
21 Cartographer's favorite novel?
23 Lloyd, of women's soccer renown
26 Communist command
27 Temporal unit for Swifties
28 World Heritage Site org.
30 Woodchuck, for one
33 Shareable doc format
34 "The Hobbit" protagonist
39 Taunt
40 Mammalogist's favorite novel?
44 Pakistani politician Khan
46 Consumed
47 The cruelest mth., according to T.S. Eliot
50 Nincompoop
52 A high point of 54-down
55 Cleopatra killer
56 Consequence of grade inflation
61 Literacy declaration
62 Network engineer's favorite novel?
66 Eagle's nest
67 Well-spoken
71 "Paradise Lost" protagonist
72 Disfigure
73 "Wednesday" actress
74 Romantic rendezvous
75 Ant. counterpart in a thesaurus
76 "It's My Party" singer Gore
Down
1 Actor Daniel ___ Kim
2 Spermatozoa counterpart
3 Nautical pronoun
4 Chronicles
5 Run-down, euphemistically
6 Worm variety
7 One man's treasure
8 "The Metamorphosis" protagonist
9 Daylight savings saving, briefly
10 Tutsi rival
11 One character in 62-across
12 Make a scene?
13 Those who mess with the bull
14 Scheduled
19 Lil ___ X
22 In your wildest dreams?
23 Chalice
24 Yes follower
25 Group founded by Ross Perot in 1995
29 ___-Wan Kenobi
31 Bill gate?
32 "The Pioneer Woman" host Drummond
35 What the world will end in, according to some
36 "Glee" Michelle
37 Chiropterologist fascination
38 __ and only
41 Galaxy descriptor, according to Star Wars
42 6, telephonically speaking
43 Building blocks, to a geneticist
44 Broke a leg?
45 Originate an eggcorn
48 Mendel's fascination
49 The favorite color of 13-down
51 In Excelsis ___
53 The lesser-known Curie
54 Kepler's fascinations
57 Building blocks, to a chemist
58 Deviate
59 Pine
60 Puerto Rico hrs.
63 Narrow inlets
64 Quitting time?
65 Steel ___
68 Animation frame
69 But a number
70 Produce 2-down