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Crossword #24

Compiled by Richard Smyth

7 November 2018

ACROSS

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5 Category 5 hurricane that struck US Gulf Coast in August 2005 (7)

9 Fibrous protein found in claws (7)

10 One of 118, perhaps I, O or U (7)

11 Yellowish form of iron oxide (8)

12 Equiangular polygon (6)

14 Type of long-focus lens (9)

17 Cat-like Madagascan carnivore (5)

18 Wolfgang ___ (1900–58), Austrian physicist (5)

20 Obsolete term for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (9)

23 Simple sugar, C5H10O5 (6)

24 Lynn ___ (1938–2011), proponent of symbiosis in evolution (8)

28 US space probe that arrived at…

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