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description: Ape-ing around the Lab
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# Ape Crossword

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

<table><thead><tr><th width="68.33333333333331" align="center">#</th><th width="528">Across Clue</th><th align="center">Answer</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">1</td><td>In a __ (going ape)</td><td align="center">FRENZY</td></tr><tr><td align="center">4</td><td>There are no apes in his Animal Farm</td><td align="center">ORWELL</td></tr><tr><td align="center">5</td><td>Defender of the apes, in a sense, in a famous monkey trial</td><td align="center">DARROW</td></tr><tr><td align="center">8</td><td>"Legends of the ____," coming Yuga Labs experience</td><td align="center">MARA</td></tr><tr><td align="center">9</td><td>___ drop (how the first 11 was delivered to NFT holders)</td><td align="center">AIR</td></tr><tr><td align="center">11</td><td>Mega ___</td><td align="center">SERUM</td></tr><tr><td align="center">12</td><td>Apes share over 90% of these with humans</td><td align="center">GENES</td></tr><tr><td align="center">13</td><td>Ape DNA shape (which mutates when affected by 11)</td><td align="center">HELIX</td></tr><tr><td align="center">14</td><td>The process by which 12 are passed to a new generation of apes</td><td align="center">HEREDITY</td></tr><tr><td align="center">15</td><td>Location of this puzzle</td><td align="center">LAB</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th width="66.33333333333331" align="center">#</th><th width="532">Down Clue</th><th align="center">Answer</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">1</td><td>Ahead; into the future (like where Avila wants Apekind to move)</td><td align="center">FORWARD</td></tr><tr><td align="center">2</td><td>Threatened, like Pan troglodytes and Ateles geoffroyi frontatus</td><td align="center">ENDANGERED</td></tr><tr><td align="center">3</td><td>Ape arm joint</td><td align="center">ELBOW</td></tr><tr><td align="center">6</td><td>Sports agent Tellem (descended from but otherwise unrelated to apes)</td><td align="center">ARN</td></tr><tr><td align="center">7</td><td>Go ape (2 wds.)</td><td align="center">RAISE HELL</td></tr><tr><td align="center">8</td><td>Adjective for the habitat of "The Waterside Ape"</td><td align="center">MARINE</td></tr><tr><td align="center">10</td><td>People for whom "ape" is "menneskeabe"</td><td align="center">DANES</td></tr></tbody></table>

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.

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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](../../../internal-lab-reports/lab-report-archives/report-11-hunt-for-the-megas-electric/hunt-for-mega-electric/you-find-yourself-in-a-lab).  The map created then, perfectly matches the layout of this new grid.

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

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