麻豆传媒

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ACROSS

1 Sheer fitting with zip is OK? (8, 4)

7, 8 Oat nectar bee turned into pigment (4)

8 See 7 across (8)

9 Wild animals incubate alien egg, say (6)

10 Against crossing without a trace (6)

11 Not finishing off a vitamin shake (3)

12 Nanoscale electrical engineering installed in Troy, New York (5)

14 Heedless of the odds, pens a scary article (5)

16 Prompt treatment to suspend onset of rabies (3)

18 After top surgery, driver left covered in crusted wounds (6)

20 In Uppsala, Rydberg got what he deserved (6)

22 Glycosyl lab leaves series of letters for speech unit (8)

23 Smell an entrepreneur (4)

24 Too fast to correctly spell uranium (12)

DOWN

1 Mean to state the years someone has lived (7)

2 Market sector that spans the universe (5)

3 In a podcast, draw analogies with fungus-like growth (6)

4 Poorly expressed hatred for string of tweets (6)

5 Skin blemish belonging to woman featured in The Third Man? (7)

6 Weaklings race the wrong way (5)

13 Clouds of gas born around a blue blast (7)

15 Spray email provider full of love (7)

16 Top three laboratory mycologists lift up instrument (6)

17 Reckon electron contacts defy gravity? (6)

19 Rodent with a computerised brain exhibiting oxygen generation (5)

21 Xylem once provided source of vitamin C (5)