Broaden the Brain
Across
- 2. Ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (7)
- 4. The freezing point of water in Celsius (5, 7)
- 5. A Shakespeare play about two star-crossed lovers (6, 3, 7 letters)
- 7. The part of the brain that controls memory and learning (9)
- 10. The process by which cells divide to create identical copies (7 letters)
- 13. Chemical element with the symbol ‘Au’ (4 letters)
- 14. Language in which the Taj Mahal inscriptions are written (5)
- 16. A sport played with a racket and shuttlecock (10 letters)
- 18. Popular book series featuring Katniss Everdeen (10, 7)
- 20. Force that opposes motion between two surfaces (8)
- 23. The number of strings on a standard violin (4)
- 25. The branch of science that studies weather (11)
- 26. Country with the largest coastline in the world (6)
- 27. The phase of matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape (6)
- 28. Park World War II code-breaking site in England (8, 4)
Down
- 1. Capital of Iceland (8)
- 3. A Japanese art of paper folding (7)
- 6. A Greek hero whose only weakness was his heel (8)
- 8. Document signed in 1215 limiting the power of the English king (5, 5)
- 9. The powerhouse of the cell (13 letters)
- 11. Country with the most time zones (6)
- 12. Greek hero of the Trojan War (5 letters)
- 15. The human body system responsible for breaking down food (9)
- 17. The official language of Brazil (9)
- 19. Gas making up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere (8)
- 21. The treaty that ended World War I (6, 9)
- 22. Explorer who first circumnavigated the globe (7)
- 24. Mythical bird that rises from its ashes (7 letters)