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Across

1 Ge (9)

6 1895 discovery by Wilhelm Röntgen (1–4)

9 Distilling apparatus (7)

10 City in which the first nuclear reactor was built (7)

11 Willow (5)

12 Type of tissue transplant (4, 5)

13 Home to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (9)

15 Ω (5)

16 Puzzle in which pictures represent words (5)

18 Supply with O (9)

20 Subunit within a cell (9)

23 Head; top; peridium (in fungi) (5)

25 1958 sci-fi horror film (3, 4)

26 Ga (7)

27 Xe (5)

28 Storage container for natural gas (9)

Down

1 Bird excrement (5)

2 Re (7)

3 Whale gut secretion (9)

4 Bone of the middle ear (5)

5 Workings (9)

6 Star Wars spaceship (1–4)

7 Hawaiian honeycreeper (7)

8 ___ radio, broadcast at around 1.7–30 MHz (5, 4)

13 Emissions levy (6, 3)

14 V-1 flying bomb (9)

15 Anatomical structure resembling a lid (9)

17 Wetland plant (3, 4)

19 Of a baby bird, to form an attachment (7)

21 Synthetic polymer (5)

22 A cube has 12 of them (5)

24 Stopwatch or hourglass, perhaps (5)

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