LISA RANDALL, WARPED PASSAGES — James Clerk Maxwell... was a brilliant scientist who counted among his... interests optics and color,... the rings of Saturn, ... and the question of how cats land upright while conserving angular momentum when dropped upside down.
But another British physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, incorporated Faraday's field idea into classical electromagnetic theory. Maxwell was a brilliant scientist who counted among his many interests optics and color, the mathematics of ovals, thermodynamics, the rings of Saturn, measuring latitude with a bowl of treacle, and the question of how cats land upright while conserving angular momentum when dropped upside down.
| A. | One-dimensional measure | LENGTH |
| B. | Occupying an unsettled state (2 wds.) | INLIMBO |
| C. | Full range, as of opinion | SPECTRUM |
| D. | Kind of professor lacking tenure | ADJUNCT |
| E. | What like poles are to each other | REPULSIVE |
| F. | Secret Squirrel's 1960s TV co-star (2 wds.) | ATOMANT |
| G. | Discovered just recently | NEWFOUND |
| H. | Get all bent out of shape | DEFORM |
| I. | One ten-billionth of a meter | ANGSTROM |
| J. | Shining, aglow | LUCENT |
| K. | Not involving electronic wizardry (hyph.) | LOWTECH |
| L. | Creations in works of fantasy | WORLDS |
| M. | One of a meson's two components | ANTIQUARK |
| N. | Stationary, still, inactive | RESTING |
| O. | Copying device using two pens connected by pivoting rods | PANTOGRAPH |
| P. | Smart device from Amazon | ECHO |
| Q. | Lessen, subside, fade, ebb | DIMINISH |
| R. | Part of a lunar cycle | PHASE |
| S. | Bowl over, stun, stagger | ASTOUND |
| T. | Force from afar causing the auroras (2 wds.) | SOLARWIND |
| U. | Noticeability, conspicuousness | SALIENCE |
| V. | Hoped-for results of research | ANSWERS |
| W. | Match sartorially (2 wds.) | GOWITH |
| X. | Energy-conveying quasiparticle | EXCITON |
| Y. | Projected presentation (2 wds.) | SLIDESHOW |