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Quick crossword #39

Across

1 Intelligence assessment, purportedly (2,4)

4 Antelope; Chevrolet (6)

8 Split; shared (7)

9 藛(7)

11 Term used to describe the technological revolution by Harold Wilson in 1963 (5,4)

12 Abnormal growth projecting from a mucous membrane (5)

14 B (5)

15 Perhaps :-) or :-( (8)

16 Marriage within a social or ethnic group (8)

18 Picture puzzle (5)

20 See 3 Down

21 Harvey ___, rubber tyre pioneer (9)

24 Condition caused by vitamin D deficiency (7)

25 Of algebra, functions or variables, relating to a 19th-century logician (7)

26 Pacific climate phenomenon (2,4)

27 Abnormal exit of tissue (6)

Down

1 ___ elk, extinct deer species (5)

2 Social media platform launched in 2006 (7)

3/20 US palaeontologist and essayist (7,3,5)

5 Friedrich ___, inventor of a scale of mineral hardness (4)

6 Air sacs in the lungs (7)

7 鈥淗acktivist鈥� group (9)

10 Fastener patented in 1849 (6,3)

13 2011 science fiction thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal (6,4)

14 Cretaceous clay found in Wyoming (9)

17 Waterproof garment (7)

19 Bacterial neurotoxin (7)

22 Spiral-horned antelope (5)

23 Star Trek phaser setting (4)

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