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Ssshe Ssstimulated Me with Ssscience Crossword Puzzle

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This general science puzzle was inspired by the "Crossword Category Stumpers" challenge in the Author's Lounge. All of the clues start with the letter "S" and many of the answers also have an "s" within them. A warning, this puzzle is challenging with some pretty obscure science words, so be sure you have plenty of time before you start. Good luck!
Author: BigTriviaDawg - Diff: Harder

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      1. Semiconducting non-metal used to make circuits
      5. Squiggly lines of equal pressure on a weather map (pl.)
      9. Stately, vase-shaped, shade tree at risk for a fungal disease (sing.)
      10. Superconducting element found as part of columbite ore
      11. Steals cats or dogs
      12. Shaggy flightless bird of Australia
      13. Sanitizing compounds with a hydroxyl group attached to a benzene ring (pl.)
      14. Science professionals often need this type of permit to do their job (sing.)
      15. Survival instinctive parts of the brain (pl.)
      16. Small stone block used for making a mosaic (sing.)
      20. Stones once thought to be ancient tools; Greek etymology is "dawn-stone" (pl.)
      24. Simply a sound
      28. Software programs that request access to a server (pl.)
      32. So small as not to be measurable
      33. Seen by observable evidence alone
      34. Spiders are often incorrectly assumed to be these types of animals (pl.)
      35. Shoulder to the hand
      36. Strides towards progress usually at a cost (pl.)
      37. Simplest and smallest ketone
      38. Swallow food
      39. Small air filled cavities that drain into the nose
      40. Simplest clue ever

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      1. Solar surface area that appears dark
      2. Stealers of goods during a riot (pl.)
      3. Shaggy, hairy, crinite
      4. Snapdragon relative with colorful funnel-shaped flowers
      5. Sudden strong urge
      6. Sight relating to light detection
      7. Situationally in opposition to
      8. Sets of things that work together (pl.)
      17. Self awareness that senses out what is real
      18. Salty water in an expansively defined area
      19. Sports center for the community (abbr.)
      21. Substance that is soluble in ether and insoluble in water
      22. Solid state of water
      23. Steam often means the temperature of a liquid is this
      24. Similar organisms able to produce viable offspring (pl.)
      25. Sifting kidney unit with a glomerulus and a tubule (sing.)
      26. Single point surface vectors to a tangent line...sounds kind of ordinary to me (pl.)
      27. Shrouds or sheathes much like the capsids of viruses (pl.)
      28. Similar type of weather pattern
      29. Suppliers or distributers of something
      30. Sphacelate
      31. Suspicion of a possible answer