Across
- 2. Indian festival of lights
- 4. Radiohead’s song “Weird Fishes/_____”; plural form of a musical technique where the individual notes of a chord are played sequentially
- 6. The Half Blood Prince
- 8. Game of _____, a zero-player cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway
- 9. Animation studio named after an Italian airplane used during WWI
- 10. Michael Burry, Jim Simons, and Joe e.g.
- 11. Sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley that explores the temporary nature of political power and human hubris; episode name in Breaking Bad
- 14. active chemical compound in chili peppers that gives them their spice
- 15. This animal decided to crawl on land, so now we have to pay taxes
- 17. Belgian Surrealist painter known for pieces such as The Lovers, Golconda, and The Son of Man
- 19. Think tank known for creating the Prisoner's Dilemma
- 21. O-O or O-O-O in chess
- 23. Japanese composer for many of 11’s movies
- 25. This is ______ speech by David Foster Wallace that includes the parable: “An older fish swims past two young fish and asks, "Morning, boys. How's the _______?"”
- 28. String instrument that Jake the Dog plays; uses alto clef
- 29. Easter egg in this game where putting the track "Disc 11" through a frequency spectrogram reveals a face resembling Steve along with C418's signature
- 31. Uncle that said “Sick of tea?!?! That’s like being sick of breathing.”
- 34. The most popular tea in Japan
- 35. DADA professor in Order of the Phoenix; _____ Park in the Mission District of SF
- 36. Skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air without the use of the rider's hands
- 38. Played the Joker in The Dark Knight and Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You
- 40. Alumni of this university created CRISPR, RISC architecture, and Apple
- 42. Poker slang for when a very strong hand loses to an even stronger hand
- 43. Last name of 11 and 12 who are first cousins once removed
Down
- 1. je ne sais ______; a French phrase used to describe a pleasant, special quality that cannot be clearly defined or put into words
- 3. Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Jacob Coxon, e.g.
- 5. The capital of Hawaii is on this island
- 7. American contemporary classical composer who made Einstein on the Beach
- 12. Ancient Greek scientist who discovered that an object submerged in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces
- 13. Creator of The Happiest Place on Earth
- 15. Rebecca Black’s favorite day of the week
- 16. Where die-hard fans at shows are at
- 18. First place animal in the Great Race that determined the Chinese zodiac order
- 20. German philosopher who dubbed the supreme principle of morality the “Categorical Imperative”
- 22. Feeling bored or tired by having nothing interesting to do
- 24. Genre of game that includes A Dark Room, Candy Box 2, and Universal Paperclips
- 26. _____ rock, an experimental subgenre of alternative and indie rock that uses non-standard time signatures
- 27. Late American chef known for hosting Emmy-winning Parts Unknown
- 30. Zuko, Torchic, and Ace uses
- 32. Grammy winning album Channel _______ by Frank Ocean; Eminem rhymes this with “door hinge”
- 33. Author of Industrial Society and Its Future, who criticized modern society's use of antidepressants instead of addressing the conditions that cause depression
- 37. Creator of This American Life
- 38. Geohot, Kevin Mitnick, and Robert Morris, e.g.
- 39. “Plata o plomo?” asks this drug lord of the Medellín Cartel
- 41. Tiffany, ultramarine, and sapphire, e.g.