Complete Clue List
Across
1. Titanium and its strong, lightweight (40D)s are used to produce sporting ____ (merchandise)
7. Early Mexican people whose design patterns are sometimes seen on modern titanium jewellery
10. Vivacity
11. Leaves out
12. Leg bone which might be surgically repaired with a titanium plate
13. Popular pasta
14. Saintly quality
17. Take a quick look
20. At 73.72%, Ti-48 is the most abundant naturally occurring ____ of titanium
24. American footballers whose orthopaedic injuries might require titanium (32A)s (word with initialism)
25. Glossy shine, typical of (39D)s like titanium (UK spelling)
26. Issue for public sale, like 27A's "Nothing but the Beat" (2011) album with the "Titanium" hit single
27. French DJ, David ____, co-wrote and sang "Titanium" (2011)
28. Way of doing things
29. Carefully inspect
30. Set up for use (var.)
31. Pellagra preventer, Vitamin B3
32. Artificial tooth; titanium is frequently used for dental prostheses
36. Swedish chemist Jöns ____ Berzelius was first to isolate titanium in 1825
39. Intends
42. Industry associated with aircraft, missiles, satellites and spacecraft; uses titanium (40D)s
43. External coverings for the tops of buildings; "Titanium" is a trademark here for synthetic underlays
44. A telecommunications company (abbr.) whose equipment may utilise titanium (40D)s
45. "Royal water" which dissolves gold and platinum, but not titanium (Lat.; 4,5)
46. In chemistry, descriptive of a solution with one mole of solute per kilogram of solvent
47. Devoted
Down
1. Vertical column on the periodic 8D; titanium is in ____ 4
2. Chemical form of titanium in nature
3. Impudent
4. In 1795 German scientist Martin Heinrich Klaproth named titanium after this Greek mythological bunch
5. Indication of approved or superior status
6. Circus venue which may be supported with titanium poles (3,3)
7. Caper
8. Chemical display that may be periodic; Dmitri Mendeleev would know
9. Turning tool consisting of a rotating shaft with a parallel handle
15. Acute and highly contagious viral disease
16. Titanium's atomic number (6-3)
18. Is assured of success OR orders a bespoke product (3,2,4)
19. Deterioration in (39D)s caused by oxidation or chemical action, and to which titanium is resistant
20. Jerusalem resident; The IMI Desert Eagle Titanium Gold 44 Magnum was an ____ gun until 1995
21. Light source since ancient times (3,4)
22. Egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument that found its way into "The Legend of Zelda" video game
23. Periodic 8D entry, as is titanium
33. Seller's profit margin (4-2)
34. Precise beams of light; Ti-sapphire ____ use a crystal of sapphire doped with Ti3+ ions
35. ONAGER running wild, makes a narrow escape (anag.; 4,2)
36. Large drinking vessel, usually made of glass or earthenware
37. Luxembourgish metallurgist William J. ____ invented a process (1940) for producing metallic titanium
38. Energy expended at rest: ____ metabolism
39. A material like titanium that's malleable, ductile and conducts electricity; Ti is a transition ____
40. Metallic mixture; titanium forms this type of substance with many other (23D)s
41. Thread or wire holder