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Quick Crossword #45

ACROSS

8 Half- (4)

9 Asian feline, Prionailurus bengalensis (7, 3)

10 Quantity expressing the ratio in which the length of a vector is increased (6)

11 Long-legged bird in the family Phoenicopteridae (8)

12 Red green blue alpha (4)

13 Arid(ish) habitat (10)

16 Pierre-Leon ___, author of a theory in Euclidian geometry (4)

17 Remove from packaging (perhaps on YouTube) (5)

18 Stand-alone shell, in Unix (4)

19 Two-terminal component that uses the electron tunnelling effect (5,5)

21 ___ Canal, shipping waterway completed in 1825 (4)

22 Tech billionaire; founder of SpaceX (4,4)

26 ___ acid, CH₃CH(OH)CO₂H (6)

27 Atmospheric layer composed of homogeneously mixed gases (10)

28 Genus of succulents (4)

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1 Propulsion devices such as those developed by Frank Whittle (3,7)

2 Sedimentary rock from which liquid hydrocarbons may be obtained (3,5)

3 Sonic waves of frequencies >20kHz (10)

4 Architectural shelter (4)

5 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (4)

6 Swirling motions, in fluid dynamics (6)

7 ___ Liwei, taikonaut (4)

14 Term for a Chicago-Florida passenger train (5,5)

15 Rust-resistant sheet metal (6,4)

18 Testa (4,4)

20 ___ the salmon, ribbonfish of the eastern Pacific (4,2)

23 Bernard ___, French astronomer (4)

24 Formerly, the US Patent Office (4)

25 Leg joint (4)

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