| SCIENTISTS | "____ differ from ordinary mortals by their ability to admire loquacious and complicated delusions" (Anatole France) |
| BIOGAS | ______ differs from natural gas in that it is a renewable energy source produced biologically through anaerobic digestion rather than a fossil fuel (6) |
| PRATE | Be loquacious and softly reprove (5) |
| SUPERMAN | Nurse Pam is fantastic, no ordinary mortal! (8) |
| CHEMICAL | Their populations depend on physical, biological and ___ properties of the soil as well as the availability of food and their ability to reproduce and distribute. |
| DAM | Innovative Palestinian hip-hop band known for their activism and their ability to rap in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Many of this band's songs are found in the albums Dedication, Dabke on the Moon, a |
| SMH | An abbreviation used by a lonely heart or other person to highlight their ability to appreciate amusing or funny things (1,1,1) |
| ANTS | Social insects known for their ability to lift many times their own weight. |
| SCOTANDLOT | Former tax on all subjects according to their ability to pay (4,3,3) |
| OUTGROW | "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to ___ small ones": Theodore Roosevelt (7) |
| SHEPHERD | This term describes the minor moons Pandora, Prometheus, Janus, Epimetheus, and Pan, because of their ability to constrain the extent of Saturn's rings through gravitational forces. The term is also u |
| DORMICE | Small, largely nocturnal rodents, noted for their ability to hibernate for long periods (7) |
| SKUNKS | Mammals known for their ability to spray unpleasant-smelling liquids in self-defence (6) |
| NASDAQQUESTIONS | "How does a company reserve a symbol to trade?" and "How does it differ from NYSE?" |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Something that deceives the eye by appearing to differ from reality (7,8) |
| HYDRANGEA | Genus or Latin name of a garden shrub with pink, white or blue flowers known for their ability to ch |
| GECKOES | Small lizards noted for their ability to climb |
| KITES | Symbolising friendship in Truman Capote's story A Christmas Memory, floating toys named after raptors remarkable for their ability to hover or hang effortlessly in the air (5) |
| SEXYPRIMES | Non-composite numbers that differ from each other by 6 |
| RULES | CYC is a project to build a knowledge base of a projected 100 million commonsense assertions that would allow the system itself to extract further _____ directly from ordinary prose (5) |
