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1 What was discovered on the morning of Friday 28 September 1928 in the basement of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London?
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ACROSS 1 Eisenhower’s National Tax Agency internalised accepted numbers (7) 5 Pass eternity in possession of a good thing (5) 8 Mimic Morag’s redesign and make like a square? (13) 9 Orange man abandons digression (3) 10 How baleen is shaped for use in corsetry? (9) 12 Statistics about omnivorous Western mustelids (6) DOWN 1 Feedback I transmit principally about bad pun (5) 2 Rex usually put a sign over nosy Ran’s bananas (13) 3 Wicker bassinets made by Reverend Spooner for large amounts of power (9) 4 Watches a boson undergo rapid fluctuations (6) 5 Fuss over odd old man (3) 6 Solemn mouse is ridden roughshod (7-6)
13 Rotten bunch made to balance out (6) 15 “Turn lead into gold,” mutters an engineer (9) 16 Kiss goodbye to the first artificial satellite (3) 18 Rapper fills froyo glass regularly with time? That calls for scepticism! (5,5,3) 20 Claim that entertaining Nazis is cheeky (5) 21 I reused stew leftovers (7)
7 Storm leads to the entire monastery meeting unwelcome visitor (7) 11 Weakens English identity on both sides of worker uprising (9) 12 South Africa locks up regional rulers (7) 14 Unaccompanied minor in trip to facilitate growth (6) 17 Nasty lecturer exhibits flair (5) 19 Set down sexual partner in a vulgar manner (3)
Answers and the next quick crossword next week.
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3 The “eightfold way”, a phrase used by US physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1961 to explain a plethora of new particles, led to the insight that they are made of what smaller constituents?
5 The chemical compounds C2H6, C2H4, and C2H2 differ by a single letter. Which? Answers below
Quick Crossword #46
Puzzle set by Hugh Hunt #33 The mountain pass Aaron has spent the night camped at the foot of a mountain, while Bonnie camped at the summit. In the morning, Bonnie sets off down the path to base camp at exactly the same time as Aaron begins his ascent. At midday they pass each other and nod a greeting, both of them maintaining their constant walking pace. Bonnie gets to the bottom at 4pm and sets up camp, but it isn’t until 9pm that Aaron finally reaches the top. What time did the two hikers set off in the morning?
Answer next week 10 7 2 6 5 4 1 9 3 8
#32 Rearranging books Solution
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ACROSS 1 Rods, 3 Carcinogen, 10 Bigfoot, 11 Richter, 12 Futurama, 16 Alloy, 17 Tungstate, 18 Ileostomy, 21 FOCAL, 23 Jelly, 24 Molecule, 27 Hitachi, 28 Android, 29 Ground zero, 30 Uber DOWN 1 Riboflavin, 2 Digital, 4 Automation, 5 CERN, 6 Nucleus, 7 Gattaca, 8 Norm, 9 Torrey, 14 Ankylosaur, 15 Hellbender, 19 Electro, 20 Silicon, 21/13 Fields medal, 22 Coulomb, 25 Shag, 26 Fizz
At least seven moves are needed to get the books in order. You can tell this by noticing that seven numbers (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9) are to the right of the next number up (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) and so have to be moved at some point. Book_puzzle_301119 This rule works for any size of list.
Quick quiz #31 Answers
1 Penicillin; more precisely, the antibiotic properties of Penicillium fungi in a Petri dish of bacteria accidentally left out overnight by Alexander Fleming 2 The number of bones in the average human body 3 Quarks 4 Hurricane intensity 5 Their fourth: they are ethane, ethene and ethyne
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2 You have around 270 at birth, reducing to 206 in adulthood. What are we talking about?
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1 What was discovered on the morning of Friday 28 September 1928 in the basement of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London?
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4 What does the SaffirSimpson scale measure?
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ACROSS 1 Eisenhower’s National Tax Agency internalised accepted numbers (7) 5 Pass eternity in possession of a good thing (5) 8 Mimic Morag’s redesign and make like a square? (13) 9 Orange man abandons digression (3) 10 How baleen is shaped for use in corsetry? (9) 12 Statistics about omnivorous Western mustelids (6) DOWN 1 Feedback I transmit principally about bad pun (5) 2 Rex usually put a sign over nosy Ran’s bananas (13) 3 Wicker bassinets made by Reverend Spooner for large amounts of power (9) 4 Watches a boson undergo rapid fluctuations (6) 5 Fuss over odd old man (3) 6 Solemn mouse is ridden roughshod (7-6)
13 Rotten bunch made to balance out (6) 15 “Turn lead into gold,” mutters an engineer (9) 16 Kiss goodbye to the first artificial satellite (3) 18 Rapper fills froyo glass regularly with time? That calls for scepticism! (5,5,3) 20 Claim that entertaining Nazis is cheeky (5) 21 I reused stew leftovers (7)
7 Storm leads to the entire monastery meeting unwelcome visitor (7) 11 Weakens English identity on both sides of worker uprising (9) 12 South Africa locks up regional rulers (7) 14 Unaccompanied minor in trip to facilitate growth (6) 17 Nasty lecturer exhibits flair (5) 19 Set down sexual partner in a vulgar manner (3)
Answers and the next quick crossword next week.
52 | New Scientist | 7 December 2019
3 The “eightfold way”, a phrase used by US physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1961 to explain a plethora of new particles, led to the insight that they are made of what smaller constituents?
5 The chemical compounds C2H6, C2H4, and C2H2 differ by a single letter. Which? Answers below
Quick Crossword #46
Puzzle set by Hugh Hunt #33 The mountain pass Aaron has spent the night camped at the foot of a mountain, while Bonnie camped at the summit. In the morning, Bonnie sets off down the path to base camp at exactly the same time as Aaron begins his ascent. At midday they pass each other and nod a greeting, both of them maintaining their constant walking pace. Bonnie gets to the bottom at 4pm and sets up camp, but it isn’t until 9pm that Aaron finally reaches the top. What time did the two hikers set off in the morning?
Answer next week 10 7 2 6 5 4 1 9 3 8
#32 Rearranging books Solution
10 7 2 6 5 4 1 9 3 8
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ACROSS 1 Rods, 3 Carcinogen, 10 Bigfoot, 11 Richter, 12 Futurama, 16 Alloy, 17 Tungstate, 18 Ileostomy, 21 FOCAL, 23 Jelly, 24 Molecule, 27 Hitachi, 28 Android, 29 Ground zero, 30 Uber DOWN 1 Riboflavin, 2 Digital, 4 Automation, 5 CERN, 6 Nucleus, 7 Gattaca, 8 Norm, 9 Torrey, 14 Ankylosaur, 15 Hellbender, 19 Electro, 20 Silicon, 21/13 Fields medal, 22 Coulomb, 25 Shag, 26 Fizz
At least seven moves are needed to get the books in order. You can tell this by noticing that seven numbers (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9) are to the right of the next number up (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) and so have to be moved at some point. Book_puzzle_301119 This rule works for any size of list.
Quick quiz #31 Answers
1 Penicillin; more precisely, the antibiotic properties of Penicillium fungi in a Petri dish of bacteria accidentally left out overnight by Alexander Fleming 2 The number of bones in the average human body 3 Quarks 4 Hurricane intensity 5 Their fourth: they are ethane, ethene and ethyne
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