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Science and chemistry-themed puzzles, including wordoku, quick and cryptic crosswords. Test your chemistry knowledge and puzzle-solving skills

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Cryptic chemistry crossword #090

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Tin, toxins, and tricky turns of phrase all show up in this cryptic chemistry crossword. Can you solve it?

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Cryptic chemistry crossword #096

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This puzzle might give you a ’happy moment when working’ (6)

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Cryptic chemistry crossword #095

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Crystallographers, chemists, and a few jet-setting enzymes all feature in this cryptic chemistry crossword. Can you solve it?

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Cryptic chemistry crossword #094

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’Tinker with a novel protein’ and solve this cryptic chemistry crossword

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Cryptic chemistry crossword #093

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This cryptic chemistry crossword has it all, from lab kits to heretics.

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Quick chemistry crossword #096

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This quick chemistry crossword covers codebreaking, chemistry, and ecclesiastical architecture.

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Quick chemistry crossword #095

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From niobium to Nobelists, meet chemists and revisit the lab where the pH scale was born in this quick chemistry crossword.

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Quick chemistry crossword #094

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Ready to chase Nobel discoveries and trace molecular mysteries? Give this quick chemistry crossword a solve!

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Quick chemistry crossword #093

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Crabs, cannabinoids, and chain reactions are central to this quick chemistry crossword puzzle  

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Quick chemistry crossword #092

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This quick crossword layers Nobel laureates, chemical trivia, and natural forces into one puzzle just waiting to be solved.

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Chemistry wordoku #104

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 There’s a chemist with an interest in chiral nanomaterials hiding in this letter-based puzzle

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Chemistry wordoku #103

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 Complete this puzzle to unscramble a British natural product chemist

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Chemistry wordoku #102

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 Sniff out the hidden terpene in this sudoku-style brain teaser