Fingernails

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Across
  1. 3. Living tissue underneath the free edge of the nail
  2. 6. Glassy, grayish band where nail plate meets hyponychium
  3. 9. creates skin cells that harden and flatten as they move outward to form nail plate
  4. 10. Thin, pliable, colorless layer of nonliving tissue shed by stem cells in eponychium
Down
  1. 1. Live tissue at underside of proximal nail fold covering new growth of nail plate
  2. 2. Half-moon shape at the base of nail
  3. 4. Flap of skin extending from first joint of finger to visible nail plate, back under the skin, to nail matrix.
  4. 5. Part of the nail that extends beyond the finger or toe
  5. 7. Visible area of the nail that extends from the free edge to the matrix
  6. 8. Area of nail on which the nail plate sits