This chemistry crossword has it all: from bugs to bits, elements to fungus.
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| 1 | Unit of computer storage (1024 bits) with the same symbol as ytterbium (8) |
| 6 | Seraglios (6) |
| 9 | Outer garment which originated in South America (6) |
| 10 | Reduce (8) |
| 11 | American physical chemist and discoverer of deuterium for which he was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (6, 4) |
| 13 | Zero (4) |
| 14 | American radiochemist and co-discoverer of five superheavy elements at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (4, 10) |
| 16 | Butterfly and moth scientists (14) |
| 19 | Fungus that can cause plant disease (4) |
| 20 | Boot named after a duke (10) |
| 21 | Element discovered by French scientist Marguerite Perey in 1939 (8) |
| 22 | Greek father of geometry (6) |
| 24 | Winter sportsmen and women (6) |
| 25 | Podiums (8) |
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| 2 | Order of dragonflies and damselflies (7) |
| 3 | Principal psychoactive component of cannabis (abbrev) (3) |
| 4 | Carnage (9) |
| 5 | Bubalus mindorensis (7) |
| 6, 8 | 06, 8English physicist whose work established the concept of the atomic number and predicted several new elements. Killed in action at Gallipoli 1915 (5, 7) |
| 7 | Recalling past experiences (11) |
| 8 | See 6d (7) |
| 12 | Supremacy (11) |
| 15 | Indigence (9) |
| 16 | French naturalist whose theories of evolution (including the inheritance of acquired characteristics) preceded Darwin’s (7) |
| 17 | Combination of monomers (7) |
| 18 | Element named after the Norse god of thunder (7) |
| 20 | Small dams (5) |
| 23 | Vehicle (3) |
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