ATNF News crossword

Cryptic clues

Across
1. Newspaper opinion has princess replaced by queen's top two and a middle earth

7. Sounds like you should know the Halley home cloud

8. Greek letter in musical note length is a let down in Sol's cycle

9. Runner up after only a part of the circular course to a small degree

10. Those who look over things risk losing a rate to be employers

11. Front runners do sometimes negate NASAs probes into missionary positions

13. Laps up a confused observatory

15. Question letter replacing myself when gliding on snow. Overhead!

16. Spains south with very incomplete end yields broad observation

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2. Queerly shaped object initially looks like exotic source

3. Red giant has doubts re satan integrity

4. Surprise mother with the vice taken from tennis starter to be interesting at 1667 MHz

5. Last four editions lose their curl to become a charged particle

6. Limousine without its rear bumper in a prang gets a heartless toy to finish and have brightness

7. Tardy outside broadcast flips the Red Spot's planet's spheroidal shape

10. After dinner meal first loser in higher reaches

12. Hakim assassination has the right inertial stuff

14. Body of water we hear is good looking

Quick clues

7. Cloud where comets start

8. Low point in sunspot cycle

9. Measure of angle

10. Those who observe

11. NASAs system for talking with probes (abbr)

13. Northern hemisphere observatory

15. What's up

16. Wide search for objects

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2. Early name for quasar (abbr)

3. Brightest star in Taurus

4. 1667 MHz source

5. Charged particle

6. Measure of brightness

7. Spheroidal shape of Jupiter

10. Higher section

12. You can have lots of this but weigh nothing in zero gravity

14. Clear, dry skies are good for —ing

Graeme Carrad, ATNF
(Graeme.Carrad@csiro.au)