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Quick Crossword #43

ACROSS

1 Biologist and president of Humanists UK (5,7)

10 South Korean social network (7)

11 Turn to vinegar (7)

12 Dolphin genus; bacterium (informally) (5)

13 Heavy-lift helicopter (8)

15 Irregular heartbeat (10)

16 Mineral, Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂ (4)

18 Palm tree, Euterpe oleracea (4)

20 Tropical cyclone that struck Japan in 1990 (7,3)

22 Aromatic herb (8)

24 Consonantal alphabet (5)

26 Tidal wave (7)

27 Ettore ___, automobile designer (7)

28 Pr (12)

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2 1st or 2nd, say? (3,4)

3 ___ group, COOH (8)

4 ctrl+Y or cmd-shift-Z (4)

5 UV-A lamp (5,5)

6 ___ Ocean, prehistoric sea between Gondwana and Laurussia (5)

7 Shrub genus (7)

8 Icicle or brinicle (3,10)

9 Unfounded health concerns exacerbated by online research (13)

14 Peridot (10)

17 Red-flowering eucalyptus (5,3)

19 Inflating tool; the constellation Antlia (3,4)

21 IT firm founded in Kawasaki in 1935 (7)

23 Old World lizard (5)

25 Latin abbreviation, found in endnotes (4)

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