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Quick Crossword #42

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Across

1 1980 sci-fi film starring William Hurt (7,6)

8 Himalayan cryptid (4)

9 Star in Orion (10)

10 Unborn baby (6)

11 Laptop 鈥淗ackintosh鈥� (8)

12 1973 Michael Crichton film (9)

14 Trigonometric function (4)

15 Armoured combat vehicle (4)

16 Arthur ___, English astrophysicist (9)

20 Squash cultivars (8)

21 Offshore drilling platform (3,3)

23 Professor ___, inventor invented by Norman Hunter (10)

24 Melting (of snow and ice) (4)

25 Acid perfusion procedure (9,4)

Down

1 Plant genus in the family Ranunculaceae (7)

2 Rate of rotation of a smooth ribbon (5)

3 Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (7)

4 Arboreal fungal infection (5,3,7)

5 Nicaragua volcano (6)

6 ___ poplar, name for the tree Populus tremuloides (9)

7 Contraction of the heart (7)

13 Kitchen tool patented by Ezra Warner in 1858 (3,6)

15 Bone joined to the sternum (4,3)

17 In comics, the alter ego of engineer Tony Stark (4,3)

18 Oxidising agent (7)

19 Constriction of the pupil (6)

22 L (5)

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