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Quick crossword #27

Compiled by Richard Smyth

6 February 2019

ACROSS

1 Thomas ___, author of An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798 (7)

5 Of memory, highly precise and vivid (7)

9 The world’s tallest pine tree (5, 4)

10 2008 book on choice architecture by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein (5)

11 Web user (7)

12 A mound or barrow (7)

13 Data ___, the removal of flawed or incomplete information from a database (9)

15 In programming, a common business-oriented language (5)

17 Marguerite ___, French physicist who discovered francium (5)

19 Unit of frequency defined as 1012 cycles per second (9)

22 Immature ova or…

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