Across
- 3. / The main ingredient in gin – Water
- 4. / 1000x the killer of COVID – Black Death
- 7. / Energy storage method invented in 1985 – Lithium Ion
- 9. / A Vermonter with about the same number of wives as arrests – Joseph Smith
- 15. / Largest animal to ever live – Blue Whale
- 16. / Una ciudad in the 28th oldest, and 3rd most southern state -Amarillo
- 17. / Prussian > _____ > Robin’s Egg – Cobalt Blue
- 19. / An isolated African American, or a venomous arachnid – Brown Recluse
- 20. / Mom’s Slug Bug – Lime Green
- 23. / You can’t “Feel it in your bones” - Calcium Phosphate
- 24. / What Alan Turing and Hermann Göring had in common – Cyanide
Down
- 1. / Tsar Bomba type – Hydrogen
- 2. / What tetrachromats can see – Ultraviolet
- 3. / Popcorn Sutton’s bounty – White Lightning
- 5. / A prehensile albino, or a holiday crapshoot – White Elephant
- 6. / The 1st of 63 NP’s – Yellowstone
- 8. / More plastic than alive – Pink Flamingo
- 10. / Radioactive ore, or boring birthday box – Yellow Cake
- 11. / The most famous word missing from this list: _____, month, silver, wolf, bulb, etc. – Orange
- 12. / A teenager’s appetite, or a point of infinite density – Black Hole
- 13. / An Incredible, or someone who becomes a berry – Violet
- 14. / Smoked Clupea, or one of the printouts – Red Herring
- 15. / Martian sunset – Bluish
- 18. / An object discovered in Arizona in 1930, and the namesake of the heaviest naturally occurring trace element - Pluto
- 21. / Excited Jed’s most embarrassing trait – Red Rocket
- 22. / Anagram to help remember some of this puzzle’s answers – ROY G BIV