Hungry for knowledge
Across
- 2. A home for escargot (so long as it is bigger than your elbow)
- 4. Body in the fruit fly nervous system that fits the theme of this puzzle
- 7. Ventricle is derived from a word for this food-storing local
- 11. Vinegar bile (Yum Yum!)
- 12. Name for the hypophysis that means slime, mucous (oysters anyone?)
- 14. Infundibulum comes from this word, as in the best sort of cake
- 15. Nut, kernel
- 16. Food found at the bottom of a tequila bottle
- 18. Gland comes from this oak fruit
- 19. A northern apple tree in January. Also, a gene involved in fruitfly courtship
- 22. Strike just under this “little plate” for the knee jerk reflex
- 23. Sheath named after the most delicious part of the bone (the marrow)
Down
- 1. Putamen describes this covering of an egg or nut
- 3. Almond
- 5. Kalamata, for example
- 6. Substania ____, overcooked elementary cafeteria food
- 8. Substantia ____, the jiggly substance served in elementary cafeterias
- 9. Lentil (lens) shape
- 10. Resembling a fishing net.
- 13. Small room (also used to describe structures in honeycomb)
- 17. Want of nourishment (to the point of wasting)
- 20. “Little grape” in the mouth or cerebellum
- 21. Pyriform describes this complimentary fruit shape (it beats being an apple)
- 24. Perikaryon means “around ___”