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Across

1/8 US geneticist (1861-1912) who is noted for her work on sex chromosomes (6,7)

4 Event likely to trigger a response (8)

9 In electronics, a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies (6)

10 Area in which aircraft operate (8)

12 Organism that doesn’t require oxygen (8)

13 Tropical toxin (6)

15 See 23

16 Disease from exposure to some silicate minerals (10)

19 Transfer of thermal energy through matter (10)

20 Adhesive (4)

23/15 Former Google motto (4,2,4)

25 Body of an aeroplane (8)…

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