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ACROSS 1 Aurochs,
5 /15 Down/ 21 Sabre-toothed cat,
8 Thylacine, 9 Net, 10 Dodos, 12 Tension,
13 /6 Down Desert bandicoot,
14 At most, 17 Freight, 19 Outer,
22 Earthward, 24 Tacit, 25 HodgkinDOWN 1 Acted, 2 Ray, 3 Coarser,
4 Swifts, 5 Stern, 7 extinct, 11 Dyspeptic,
13 Deficit, 16 Starch, 18 / 23 Great auk,
20 Radon1 Sharing its name with a 1998
film about a comet menacing Earth,
which NASA probe rendezvoused
with comet Tempel 1 in July 2005?2 A large space rock collided with
Earth 66 million years ago, possibly
doing for the dinosaurs. What is
the name of the crater it made?3 What is the geological period
dominated by the dinosaurs that
this rock brought to an end?4 Research in 2007 that sequenced
proteins from Tyrannosaurus rex
collagen indicated that it is almost
genetically identical to that of what
animal that still stalks the Earth?5 What technique, often used in
protein sequencing, determines a
substance’s composition by ionising
it and measuring individual
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8/11 Water iris; quarantine signifier (6,4)
9 The Expression of the ___ in Man and
Animals, 1872 work by Charles Darwin (8)
10 Definitive proof (7,3)
11 See 8 Across
12 Paper product; assembly of cells (6)
13 Internal computer network (8)
14 Noam ___ , linguist and activist (7)
16 GM automobile brand; Odawa chief (7)
20 Incandescent (5-3)
23 Breathe out; die (6)
25 Frozen precipitation (4)
26 1968 Jane Fonda sci-fi film (10)
27 Train component; field gun apparatus (8)
28 Of an anchor, just clear of the sea floor (6)DOWN
1 ___ manoevure, choking remedy (8)
2 Parasitic flatworms; coincidences (6)
3 ___ flask, laboratory vessel connected
to a kinked tube (4,4)
4 Flightless bird of the family Spheniscidae (7)
5 Series of linked AIs, often used maliciously (6)
6 To spread or bend (light or waves, perhaps) (8)
7 Inlet through which air reaches an engine (6)
15 Informal term for US debate over numeracy
education (4,4)
17 The ___ , 1971 post-apocalypse film
starring Charlton Heston (5,3)
18 Branch of soil science concerned with
crop growing (8)
19 Device that cranks an engine (7)
21 Aircraft housing structure (6)
22 Decorative disc for the wheel of a car (6)
24 US educational track for trainee doctors (3-3)