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Felix Crossword 27th November 2020

Weekly concise crossword

Flx Dr Robin
Dr Robin Lamboll, Imperial College Research Fellow at the Centrefor Environmental Policy / Photo: Imperial College London
Flx Dr Robin
Dr Robin Lamboll, Imperial College Research Fellow at the Centrefor Environmental Policy / Photo: Imperial College London
Crossword Puzzle
Crossword Puzzle
Crossword Puzzle

Clues

Across
1
Instrument used to

obtain spectra (12)

An extract from a novel

(7)

To secretly marry (5)

10 From a country in

western Asia (5)

11 SI unit of electric

charge (7)

12 To light a fire (6)

14 With hands on hip (6)

17 To appal (7)

19 Held power over (5)

20 Garlic mayonnaise (5)

21 Moderately slow in

music (7) 

22 Lopsided (12)

Down

1 Amount of heat per kilogram needed to raise temperature by one degree (12)

To bind with chains (7)

Gateway of a Shinto shrine

The physics of light (6)

5 A male roe deer (7)

6 An image (5)

7 Carrier of haemoglobin (12)

13 Isotope of Hydrogen (7)

15 Referring to the development of melanin in animals (7)

16 To move rapidly in a circle (6)

18 Public disturbances (5)

19 Radio location system (5)

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Flx Yellowface
Photo: HarperCollins
Flx Yellowface
Photo: HarperCollins
Crossword Solution
Crossword Solution
Crossword Solution

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