1/29/2001 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.

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Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.

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ACROSS 1 Type of power supply 8 Filter vendor in Salisbury, MD 12 Keyboard key 13 Software engineering tool 14 Federal radio wave regulating organization 15 Logarithmic ratio 17 Gadget 19 PC follower 20 Thread cutting tool 22 Data conversion device 23 Writing fluid 24 Logarithmic units of power 25 Have a positive phase wrt a reference 27 Reference surface 29 Way of looking at a graphic image 30 Made a mistake 32 Voltage-current phase mnemonic 33 Type of coil for generating constant magnetic field 34 Attenuator configuration 36 Agreement 37 Light-to-current converting device 39 RF engineer's degree 40 Young salmon 42 Ruin 44 Unit of work 46 Angular indentation 48 Category 49 Coronal discharge 51 Emperor of Rome 54-68 52 Adult males 53 Precision radar, abbr. 54 Snakelike fish 55 A failure 56 Modulation type 58 Adult female person 61 Greek letter 62 Negating prefix 64 Metal parts engineers 65 Nordic Mobile Telephone 67 Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System 68 Solid angle unit	DOWN 1 Points at (0,0,0) for z = y^2 - x^2 2 Opposite of O.D. 3 Light meal 4 Type of model airplane control system, abbr. 5 Tapering mass of ice 6 1e-3 microamps 7 Early NASA manned space flight program 8 30 kHz to 300 kHz 9 Miniature RF connector 10 Radio Controlled 11 Change a circuit card while power is applied 16 Coffin stand 17 Contact spacing 18 Exponent to return the original number 19 Second son of Adam and Eve 21 Born from the earth 24 Containing harmonic components 26 Place in a bank account 28 Branch of mathematics 29 Oscillator company in KS 31 Power supply vendor in Mansfield, MA 33 Radio navigation system 35 Federal nuclear regulation agency 36 Maximum power in a transmitted waveform, abbr. 38 Connector supplier 41 Pertaining to the island Rhodes 43 Composition in verse 44 Kinds of data storage devices 45 Lubricant 47 Essence 49 Crystal filter type 50 Understanding 57 Shot noise sound in a speaker 59 Encountered 60 Microelectronics manufacturer 62 Home state of Los Alamos lab 63 1000 ps 65 1e-6 mA 66 Semiconductor and calculator company
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