Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Ketone Chronicles and Lipid Labyrinths
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Glucometer’s nemesis crafting sugar anew from ashes
- 4. Adjective for substrates moonlighting as sugar producers
- 6. Fat factory’s blueprint for crafting triacylglycerols
- 8. Mitochondrial forge producing alternate fuel from fats
- 11. Keto supplement source external to primal biochemistry
- 12. Metabolic hub where carbon units converge and diverge
- 18. Medium-chain lipid fuel favored by speedy mitochondria
Down
- 2. Primary ketone body with a hyphenated disguise omitted
- 3. Enzymatic sabotage releasing stored polysaccharide troops
- 5. Molecular chaperone ferrying fats to the power plant
- 7. Hormonal sentinel whose dip triggers fat oxidation
- 9. Metabolic stealth mode where acetones reign supreme
- 10. Dimeric ketone, precursor in biochemical ketosis ballet
- 13. Counter-insulin herald waving catabolic decree
- 14. Fatty acid’s journey yanking electrons for energy yield
- 15. Reducing agent fueling lipid synthesis’s secret fires
- 16. Monounsaturated lipid with a double bond in its tale
- 17. Common saturated fatty acid resembling palm’s essence