Ape Crossword

Ape-ing around the Lab

Scientist can solve the clues like a normal crossword to get the answers below

#	Across Clue	Answer
1	In a __ (going ape)	FRENZY
4	There are no apes in his Animal Farm	ORWELL
5	Defender of the apes, in a sense, in a famous monkey trial	DARROW
8	"Legends of the ____," coming Yuga Labs experience	MARA
9	___ drop (how the first 11 was delivered to NFT holders)	AIR
11	Mega ___	SERUM
12	Apes share over 90% of these with humans	GENES
13	Ape DNA shape (which mutates when affected by 11)	HELIX
14	The process by which 12 are passed to a new generation of apes	HEREDITY
15	Location of this puzzle	LAB

#	Down Clue	Answer
1	Ahead; into the future (like where Avila wants Apekind to move)	FORWARD
2	Threatened, like Pan troglodytes and Ateles geoffroyi frontatus	ENDANGERED
3	Ape arm joint	ELBOW
6	Sports agent Tellem (descended from but otherwise unrelated to apes)	ARN
7	Go ape (2 wds.)	RAISE HELL
8	Adjective for the habitat of "The Waterside Ape"	MARINE
10	People for whom "ape" is "menneskeabe"	DANES

As hinted by the text, placing the answers in the grid requires 2-3 sometimes sharing a room, indicating the need to put 1-3 letters into each spot to properly fill the grid.

The final step to this puzzle resides in clue 11A which says "Location of this puzzle" for which the answer is LAB. This is a hint that the layout of the rooms shows matches that of the Lab, that was previously mapped when searching for Mega Electric and You Find Yourself in a Lab. The map created then, perfectly matches the layout of this new grid.

Scientists needed to locate the rooms where they had previously founds Apes in the lab.

Highlighting these rooms revealed the phrase YELLOW AND ANGEL, giving the final answer of YELLOW ANGEL