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Quick crossword #36

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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鈥檛 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)

27 Backbones (8)

28 Posterior orifice (6)

29 Animals found dead on highways (8)

30 Specialist (6)

Down

1 Newborn (7)

2 Means of determining the concentration of a solution (9)

3 Flip (6)

5 Study of angles (informal) (4)

6 Ectoparasitic fly; second world war aircraft (8)

7 South American camelid (5)

8 See 1 Across

11 Excess of body fat (7)

14 ___ game, where a participant鈥檚 gain or loss is balanced by the losses or gains of the others (4-3)

17 Conscious of one鈥檚 own existence (like Skynet?) (4-5)

18 Sudden increase in occurrences of a disease (8)

19 Corpse (7)

21 Of a mathematical equation, succinct, efficient or original (7)

22 Involuntary response (6)

24 Machine used to raise water (5)

26 __ Sea, lake of Asia, now mostly drained by irrigation (4)

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