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Here is the first of our crosswords about geology and palaeontology. It's about fossils.

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Across:
1: The earth was formed 4.6 billion years ... (3)
4: The symbols for the two elements in pure quartz (1,2)
6: The feature of some plants adapted to attract insects (6)
8: Grows in reefs (5)
9: A type of sediment (4)
10: This part of a crustacean is sometimes very well fossilised (6)
14: The Tertiary period was number ... (6)
17: Fossils tell us about life in the ... (4)
18: Odd parasites adapted to trees and toes (5)
19: Megarachne was the largest ever ... (6)
20: Stratum or layer of rock (3)
21: A mass extinction came at the ... of the Permian period (3)

Down:
1: A spiralled cephalopod (8)
2: Fossils not found on land are found ... (8)
3: An echinoid (6)
5: A sedimentary rock (5)
7: Viscous liquids containing microfossils(4)
11: A fossil is the remainder or representation of a ... (8)
12: Fossil fish sank to this before quickly being covered with sediment (8)
13: A creature must do this before it can be fossilised (6)
15: An ancient parasite (5)
16: Another type of sediment (4)

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