Numbers

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Across
  1. 2. Clock’s full circle, senior stride begins
  2. 3. Decimal gate, fingers full and base begun
  3. 7. Unlucky charm, superstition’s favorite integer
  4. 8. Hex of harmony, insect legs and dice faces
  5. 10. A flood of thirty zeroes unleashed, numbers too big to feel
  6. 12. Final stretch, digits on the brink
  7. 16. A century magnified to 303 zeroes, Latin century magnified
  8. 17. A giant born of a hundred zeroes, child-named giant of scale
  9. 18. A spire of ninety-three zeroes ascending, towering in theoretical space
  10. 21. An eighteen-zero surge of magnitude, stars in galaxies imagined
  11. 23. A titan built on twelve zeroes, national debts and cosmic counts
  12. 24. Lucky prime, rainbow’s count and myth’s measure
  13. 29. Prime of purpose, age of clarity and crowns
  14. 30. A marvel of six trailing zeroes, wealth’s first milestone
  15. 31. Recursive legend of imagined immensity, a million million millionfold
  16. 32. Tripod of stability, the smallest crowd
  17. 33. Numerical dusk, where single digits meet their edge
  18. 35. A swell of twenty-one zeroes, theoretical particles and beyond
  19. 36. Half-century mark, golden jubilee of digits
  20. 37. Score complete, where youth meets legacy
  21. 38. The silent start, absence dressed as a number
  22. 39. Century’s core, triple digits unlocked
  23. 40. A pair in motion, balance born from duality
Down
  1. 1. Unbounded breath, the unreachable edge of all numbers
  2. 2. A wave with twenty-four zeroes cresting, math’s deep ocean
  3. 4. Twin ones, stepping past the perfect ten
  4. 5. Fleck of paradox, tiny titan, a paradoxical speck of vastness
  5. 6. A colossus of fifteen zeroes, grains of sand and data dreams
  6. 9. A realm carved from thirty-three zeroes, counting the uncountable
  7. 11. Presidential milestone, midlife’s numeric echo
  8. 13. Comma’s first call, crowd of zeroes begins
  9. 14. Square foundation, corners of completeness
  10. 15. Mythic magnitude, nested infinities in geometric form
  11. 19. A tide of twenty-seven zeroes rising, abstraction in bloom
  12. 20. Handful of digits, half a deck of fingers
  13. 22. Double loops, infinity’s cousin in disguise
  14. 25. A beast with nine zeroes roaring, global budgets and tech empires
  15. 26. Dozen strong, eggs, hours, and ancient systems
  16. 27. A monument of sixty-three zeroes, Latin roots stretched to awe
  17. 28. Singular certainty, the seed of counting
  18. 34. Octogenarian badge, four score in motion
  19. 35. Three score and ten, wisdom’s perch