Retreat 2025

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Across
  1. 6. Sounds heavy, conducts well
  2. 7. Two feet off the ground and into the light
  3. 9. A four-letter heroine taking on desalination
  4. 12. A crystal-clear nod to precise atomic layering
  5. 13. If photons surfed, this would be their ride
  6. 14. Target locked
  7. 17. Basic by nature. Tipped toward the pH scale
  8. 20. Rises from industrial ash
  9. 21. A portmanteau that really moves. Osmotic logic meets startup energy
  10. 24. Rapid by name, molten by trade
  11. 25. A name that’s all magnitude and message—directional by design
  12. 27. What you’d call a sustainable startup sprout
  13. 28. When flat biology needed more dimension
  14. 29. If membranes could talk, this might be their opera
  15. 32. The name stabs
  16. 33. A small, genetic loop
  17. 34. A name rooted in Latin, but salty at heart—filtering innovation, bivalve-style
  18. 36. Sounds like the next best option—if the original material fails
Down
  1. 1. Keeps you grounded— underwater.
  2. 2. Could help you see the truth—or just photons
  3. 3. Terrain meets illumination
  4. 4. If voltage had a branding team and a Greek tutor
  5. 5. Strong, conductive, sharp. A name forged in fire.
  6. 8. Carbon, enhanced
  7. 10. Flies close to the speed of light
  8. 11. A delay worth decoding
  9. 15. Spacey branding for solid stuff
  10. 16. Nevermore meets orbital ambition
  11. 18. Sounds like a creature you wouldn't want near your DNA
  12. 19. Purple name, solar aim
  13. 22. Light under pressure
  14. 23. Every vowel was sacrificed in the name of circularity
  15. 26. The name says fat. The mission says clean
  16. 30. Big ag
  17. 31. Gourd meets genome
  18. 35. Weightless purification, rising above the rest