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Answer key
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Across: 3 NITROGEN · 4 PEAT · 6 KELP · 7 YIELD · 11 POTATO · 12 WASTE
Down: 1 CULTIVATED · 2 HIVE · 5 METHANE · 8 DRONE · 9 SOIL · 10 BEAN
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Across
- 3. One element, two headlines: a breached planetary boundary and the Netherlands’ thorniest farm-policy debate. (8)
- 4. A boggy carbon vault; drain it and centuries of storage escape. Also an anagram of “tape.” (4)
- 6. The ocean’s quiet overachiever: grows rapidly with no land, freshwater, or feed, and turns up in food, feed, and even new packaging. (4)
- 7. The one word an agronomist and a bond investor will both happily discuss. (5)
- 11. The unassuming Andean tuber that fed empires and, when it failed, reshaped them. (6)
- 12. A third of all food ends up here — one supply chain’s loss, a circular investor’s opportunity. (5)
Down
- 1. ___ meat: protein grown from cells, no pasture required; a frontier the whole sector is watching. (10)
- 2. The small winged workforce’s headquarters; trouble here ripples across a third of food crops. (4)
- 5. The greenhouse gas behind the unglamorous-but-fundable problem of cow burps; a live target for agri-tech. (7)
- 8. Flies the field mapping crop stress; shares its name with a famously idle male bee. (5)
- 9. Once dismissed as dirt, now courted as a carbon sink and natural asset. Fittingly, an anagram of “oils.” (4)
- 10. The protein-transition’s quiet workhorse, and the start of most people’s mornings. (4)
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