Crossword Puzzle!

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Across
  1. 3. The carbon atoms arranged themselves as layered sheets of ___________ bonded atoms.
  2. 6. I seem to remember my dreams in unusually _________ detail and twice as often as most people.
  3. 7. The body had also been ________, which he said also had a bearing on the results.
  4. 8. The _______ gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly.
  5. 11. Last week, both ministers _________ ripping up Britain's green belt to solve the housing crisis.
  6. 13. Long before he wrote his first song, he was already demonstrating _______ musical skills.
  7. 14. He added that mainland companies should also take part in arranging _________ flights to ensure that business is shared fairly.
  8. 15. Harvey's team suggests that organic carbon feeds chemical reactions that liberate _______ from minerals in the soil.
  9. 17. Ms Lloyd said cacti could injure livestock and working dogs and __________ wool.
Down
  1. 1. As his government went from indolent to comatose, he made _____________ use of the government jet as a taxi back home.
  2. 2. For most otherwise healthy people the virus, while ________ in the short term, leaves no lasting ill effects
  3. 4. With the __________in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion.
  4. 5. Her two children, little __________ boys, clutched her skirt and wouldn't or couldn't smile.
  5. 9. They're worried about the impact on the weak and __________ if the unfair dismissal laws are watered down.
  6. 10. _____ judge sentences seemingly harmless high school kids to for profit detention centers in exchange for cash.
  7. 12. Ramsay realized that ________ and helium might be members of a hitherto unsuspected new group in the Periodic Table.
  8. 14. She is blessed with the cool,___________ tone so characteristic of Scandinavian singers.
  9. 16. The route threads through and terminates in the ________ the Lutheran church where the cultural Centre was originally housed.