This crossword was made for a materials science department newsletter, and the content may reflect that. However, it is definitely enjoyable and solvable by a general audience.
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Clotho, the spinner, Lachesis, the drawer of lots, or Atropos, the inevitable
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Orizzontali
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Clotho, the spinner, Lachesis, the drawer of lots, or Atropos, the inevitable
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Bit of gossip
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Iron and copper
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Over yonder
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With 22 across, the property exhibited by something with 19-down-fold symmetry!
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Famous uncle
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What chickens come home to do
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Eats
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The rain here falls mainly in the plain
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The type of leaves that Adam and Eve used to hide their bits
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See 11 across
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The uncut gem at the center of Uncut Gems (2019)
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Not under
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Kobe wasn't known to do this
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Floor model
Verticali
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Read these before you post a question
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¿ ____ mineral?
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An I is nowhere to be seen
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Double curve shape
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Folded food
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1960's hair style
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Chips producer
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Before, to a bard
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Mahsa Amini or Ebrahim Raisi, for example
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There are seven of these in Rome
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It's PARE in South America
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What Eleven calls Jim Hopper in Stranger Things
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____ and alack!
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Alice had Bob when she was 60 years old. Bob had Carol when he was one third his mother's age. Carol had David when she was 25 years old. How old will David be when his mother is one fourth as old as his great-grandmother?
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Couple
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Greek food pronounced like what you might call Hercules