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Cryptic Flora and Fauna Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Organisms dwelling in rock crevices, hidden from sunlight
  • 2. Spiny-skinned marine creature with pentaradial symmetry
  • 3. Study of Earth's material cycles through living systems
  • 6. Soil bacteria’s conversion transforming ammonia to nitrate
  • 8. Chemical sabotage plants use to outcompete neighbors
  • 11. Drought-defying plant adapted to arid extremes
Down
  • 4. Reconstructing ancient weather through ice cores and sediment
  • 5. Mapping the moon, nature’s nighttime satellite
  • 7. Process turning plant tissue rigid through polymer deposition
  • 9. Temperature boundary in lakes splitting warm from cold layers
  • 10. Seed dispersal by animal carriers, nature’s couriers
  • 12. Day length cue triggering seasonal biological responses
  • 13. Symbiotic network beneath forest floors, fungal roots entwined
  • 14. Pigment painting petals with hues beyond chlorophyll's green
  • 15. Capable of absorbing moisture from the surrounding air

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