8 September 2018 | NewScientist | 55CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 0 (4)
9 1988 sci-fi animation directed by
Katsuhiro Otomo (5)
10 European nuclear research
organisation (4)
11 Judith ___ (1949–1986),
astronaut killed in the Challenger
disaster (6)
12 BBC wildlife programme
presented by David Attenborough
from 1954 to 1963 (3,5)
13 Component of an electrical
circuit (8)
15 Seed-eating finch, Spinus spinus
(6)
17 Supercontinent of the late
Palaeozoic and early
Mesozoic eras (7)
19 In photography, the ratio of the
focal length of a lens to the
diameter of the aperture (1,6)
22 1986 sci-fi film directed by
James Cameron (6)
24 Phylum to which vertebrates
belong (8)
26 To install new technologies
within older systems (8)
28 Early steam locomotive designed
by George Stephenson (6)
30 Integrated circuit (4)
31 Rotary wing of, for example,
a helicopter (5)
32 Element, atomic number 10 (4)Crossword No22
Compiled by Richard Smyth
1 Unit of hereditary information (4)
2 bomb, ordnance designed by
Barnes Wallis (8)
3 Mechanical seal (6)
4 Organ found in the digestive tract
of many animals (7)
5 Nathan (1910–1999),
Warsaw-born US mathematician
(8)
6 Sanitary clothing worn by
surgeons (6)
7 Genus of flowering plants; part of
the eye (4)
14 Form of electronic communication
(5)
16 Unreactive – like 32 Across (5)
18 Of a leaf, sword-shaped (8)
20 Field in which Robert G.
Edwards won the 2010
Nobel prize (8)
21 CH 3 CO 2 – , for instance (7)
23 Moon of Jupiter (6)
25 Mechanical model of the solar
system (6)
27 Computing command; damselfly
genus; letter in the NATO
phonetic alphabet (4)
29 Reactive structure in organic
chemistry (4)DOWN
ACROSS: 1 STIGMA, 4 STOMACHS, 10 ESPARTO, 11 CONTACT, 12 TWO, 13 JOLIOT-CURIE,
14 TRIUNE, 15 DISEASE, 19 ANDROID, 20 TRIODE, 23 ADAPTATIONS, 25 MOA, 26 SAND BAR,
27 FLICKER, 28 CHAINSAW, 29 ENGRAM. DOWN: 1 STEATITE, 2 IMPLOSION, 3 MARY JANE
RATHBUN, 5 TECTONIC, 6 MANIC DEPRESSION, 7 CHAIR, 8 SUTTER, 9 BOYLE,
16 SHOEMAKER, 17 LISTERIA, 18 HEXAGRAM, 21 PARSEC, 22 WOLFF, 24 APNEA.
Answers to Crossword No21
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