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Crossword #16

Our monthly invitation to scientific linguistic gymnastics

7 March 2018

Crossword No16

ACROSS

1 In biology, a population that is less widespread than in the past (6)

5 Birth city of physicists John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller (8)

9 Process once crucial in the production of high-grade iron (8)

10 Twofold; of communication, two-way; of printing, double-sided (6)

11 The generic name for polymethyl methacrylate (10)

12 A number that when raised to the power n yields x (4)

13 Boring structure (5,3)

16 Asian antelope also known as the blue bull (6)

17 Planet discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781 (6)

19 (& 24…

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