麻豆传媒

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Across

1 Network; grille (5)

4/13 Woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (9, 5)

9 Moment at which the sun crosses the equator (7)

10 Term for a hard-to-detect aircraft, e.g. the F-22 Raptor (7)

11 Alloy of Fe and C (5)

13 See 4 across

15 Key on a computer keyboard (>|) (3)

16 Component of the psyche, in Freudian terms (3)

17 Work/time (5)

19 Ice ___, suspended frozen platform (5)

21 Kg (5)

23 Acid derivative in which at least one hydrogen atom is replaced by an alkyl (5)

24 蟻 (3)

25 Write Everything Twice (3)

26 Large single dose of drug (5)

28 School subject (5)

29 Leafy green plant, Spinacia oleracea (7)

31 Colour composed of equal amounts of blue and red (7)

33 The E in ENA imaging (9)

34 Untrue (5)

Down

1 Technical jargon (4, 5)

2 Unborn (2, 5)

3 Nearest star to Earth (3)

4 C₆H₁₃ (5)

5 UK welfare organisation founded in 1948 (3)

6 鈥淐olourless green ___ sleep furiously鈥� 鈥� nonsensical phrase coined by Noam Chomsky (5)

7 Methyl benzene (7)

8 Sap-sucking insect (5)

12 Autoimmune disease also called SLE (5)

14 Ct (5)

18 Circular structure that revolves on an axle (5)

19 Blood component (5)

20 f3 e5; g4?? Qh4# (in chess) (5, 4)

22 Partially ordered set in which every pair has an infimum and a supremum (7)

24 Vitamin A1 (7)

25 Unwanted materials (5)

26 Lawrence ___, youngest Nobel laureate in physics (5)

27 Shrub in the genus Rhus (5)

30 Radioactive (informally) (3)

32 Bitmap image format (3)

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