Quick Crossword #44
Across
1 Shoreline (8)
5 Presence of urea in the blood (6)
10 Openings that may be blind or through (5)
11 this (9)
12 Language invented by L. L. Zamenhof (9)
13 Erasable, programmable read-only memory (5)
14 Forest-savannah ___, transitory ecoregion (6)
15 Hydrocarbon pipeline (3,4)
18 Palpebrae (7)
20 Berry-like cell cluster (6)
22 Compound such as tetrabromofluorescein, used as a stain (5)
24 Flightless bird that might be southern or North Island (5, 4)
25 ___ number, 5i for example (9)
26 Two acyl groups bound to N (5)
27 Jellyfish life stage (6)
28 Video game such as Mortal Kombat (4-2-2)
Down
1 Tom ___, satirist and mathematician (6)
2 Communication device patented in 1876 (9)
3 Imbalance arising where a data error affects comparison groups to an unequal degree (11, 4)
4 As (7)
6 Annie Easley or Mary Sherman Morgan, for example (6, 9)
7 Sid ___, inventor of the video game Civilization (5)
8 Sb (8)
9 Rectangle (6)
16 Al (9)
17 Se (8)
19 Metro or U-bahn (6)
20 Painkiller (7)
21 Bilinear interpolation (6)
23 The ___, 310-metre London skyscraper (5)
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Cryptic Crossword #17
Answers
Across
1 Lambda
4 Specie
9 Reactor
10 Prong
11 Noses
12 Dissect
13 Smithsonian
18 Eclipse
20 Stove
22 Rhino
23 Cordite
24 Convex
25 Amoeba
Down
1 Larynx
2 Means
3 Dataset
5 Pepys
6 Cholera
7 Eighty
8 Iridescence
14 Million
15 Nostrum
16 Metric
17 Oedema
19 Phone
21 Oxide
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