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Petri Picks Lefties · Special edition · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · Ahhhh!
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Petri Picks Lefties
Wednesday,
7 October 2026
Special edition
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Liquid that an Echo 525 fires with sound, 25 nanolitres per drop (7)
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Limb with an elbow (3)
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Like falling off a log (4)
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Pinched into tight folds, like a dumpling's edge (7)
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Sound from a milking shed (3)
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'Neither here ___ there' (3)
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Guns the engine (4)
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Same-handed, as life is, per the 2026 chemistry Nobel (10)
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By way of (3)
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It came first, or the chicken did (3)
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Database blueprint; Greek for 'shape' (6)
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Gene ___: a test that checks many genes at once (5)
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Bounder, in a period drama (3)
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Veto (2)
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Head of a research group, or a private eye, briefly (2)
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Passport stamp that lets you in (4)
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Go off, like fruit left too long (3)
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'Knock ___ dead!' (2)
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Leeuwenhoek's 'animalcules'; you host trillions of them (8)
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Modular robot lab cart that Ginkgo sells, for short (3)
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Mislabel a tube, say (3)
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Two of them, joined, make up most of the sweetener aspartame (5,5)
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Born as, before a maiden name (3)
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___pole (frog-to-be) (3)
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Emeryville 'biofacturing' firm that Ginkgo bought in 2022 (8)
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Vinod ___, whose ventures backed Impossible Foods, Amyris and LanzaTech (6)
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Mother, in Minnesota (3)
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Ribosomes build it; gym-goers shake it (7)
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Cells an IVF clinic retrieves (3)
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Experimental setup on an engineer's bench (3)
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Towel label beside 'Hers' (3)
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Pile (on), as praise (4)
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Venture firm born as Data Collective; a backer of Recursion, Atomwise and Pivot Bio (4)
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Prefix for pilot, or for the lab's steam steriliser (4)
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Heaviest of the three fencing swords (4)
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Software that tracks barcoded samples, for short (4)
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Field behind AlphaFold, or a three-toed sloth (2)
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Fantasy brute of Middle-earth or Warcraft (3)
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'___ I right?' (2)
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'Pass ___ fail?' (2)