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Crossword No2

Across

9 The closest star to Earth, other than the sun (7,8)

10 In anatomy, the inner part of, say, the kidney or adrenal gland (7)

12 Bernhard ___ (1826–66), German mathematician noted for a hypothesis in number theory (7)

13 Theropod dinosaur of the late Cretaceous (9)

14 Organic compound derived from ammonia (5)

15 The diffusion of water or any other solvent through a semipermeable membrane (7)

18 Claude ___ (1916–2001), “the father of information theory” (7)

21 Synthetic dye colour created by William Henry Perkin in 1856 (5)

23 Combining with oxygen; rusting (9)

25 Sent via Yahoo or Outlook, for example (7)

26 Term for a transparent and accessible internet (4,3)

29 “A dynamical theory of the ___ field”, 1865 paper by James Clerk Maxwell (15)

Down

1 Unsolicited, unwanted email (4)

2 That which might be covalent, ionic or metallic? (4)

3 Sir Edward Leader ___ (1828–1910), first chief engineer of the Manchester ship canal (8)

4 Hedy ___ (d.2000), Hollywood star inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame in 2014 (6)

5 In medicine, the death of tissue or cells (8)

6 MIT/IBM educational computing project (6)

7 A change in an organism’s genetic make-up (8)

8 Name given to the system of binomial nomenclature (8)

11 Paul ___ (1913–96), Hungarian mathematician, subject of the 1998 book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (5)

15 Instrument for measuring electrical resistance (8)

16 Astronomical observatory in Hawaii (5,3)

17 White-flowered herbaceous plant of the genus Galanthus (8)

19 Persian philosopher and scientist (980–1037), author of The Canon of Medicine (8)

20 One sixteenth of a pound – or a snow leopard (5)

22 Chipped flint once thought to have been a human artefact (6)

24 Line connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure (6)

27 James ___ (1736–1819), Scottish inventor and engineer (4)

28 Diana ___ (1900–56), pioneering neurosurgeon (4)