Exam II in Microbiology happens this Tuesday. If only there was some less stressful way of studying for the exam. Perhaps a puzzle to kick back and contemplate …?

(As an aside, I really don’t like the way this puzzle turned out – for a crossword puzzle, there are very few words that cross. I may attempt to redo this later, but there’s an exam to write first)

Clues:

Oh No!

Autocorrect strikes again – 1 Across = the DESTRUCTION of all microbial life.

I do apologize for my poor clue-writing. I’m only a recent adopter of crosswords and I’m not yet very good at writing them the way they should appear.

(I can only solve NYTimes’ Monday puzzles)