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Astrocrypticby Curt Nason, Moncton CentreACROSS1. A jumbo nuclear explosion from the old LMC (8,5)8. Theoretical time standard from an average star (4,3)9. Southern sky figure across or within dust lanes (5)10. Southern star followers rearranged Greek character (5)11. Electric motors around with no end to ocular wire (7)12. Health club opens near the Church of England in the finalfrontier (5)14. Mislabel a catalogue of galaxy clusters (5)16. Greek cross half rusted by a radio source in M1 (6,1)18. Put us in gas chamber to measure magnetic field (5)20. Rigel begins in clenched hand at this magnitude (5)21. One on time will be sick antisunward of a comet (3,4)22. Blue rain leaps out of old galaxies (6,7)DOWN1. Men turn to eastern sibling when faced with solar systemdisruptor (7)2. Boast about gravitational acceleration x-tal X-ray spectrometer(5)3. Professional astronomers from French line of Kembles (7)4. Earth wobbles to turn a lunation around (5,8)5. Wet one in our space telescope (5)6. Past President Star Wars knight touches Dickens midsection(7)7. Earl tossed roses in the whirlpool (5)13. Somehow Iraqi gold symbolically belongs to a bearer of water(7)14. Big lane swirling near Gamma Pegasi (7)15. The room in Québec where Les Observateurs de la MagnitudeAbsolue meet16. Spats arising from image file formats (5)17. Return in smart lunar probe to beyond beginning (5)19. You soundly hula around a way to cart your big scope (1-4)236JRASC October / octobre 2006