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    Mar 08, 2020 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1562

    Clues across

    1. What 1968 pandemic that killed an estimated million people was named after the place it originated? (4,4,3)

    8. What is a float supporting a seaplane? (7)

    9. What is a Spanish friend? (5)

    10. Who is the talking snowman in the film Frozen? (4)

    11. What tropical cyclone occurs in the Indian Ocean? (7)

    12. What word can precede wolf, foul and baby? (3)

    13. Where in the US is Columbus the state capital? (4)

    15. Which Soviet space programme landed the first spacecraft on the Moon? (4)

    17. What is a female hare? (3)

    19. First identified in China in 1996, Influenza A (H5N1) is better known as what? (4,3)

    20. What name was given to the 2001-2003 respiratory disease traced in 2017 to

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