For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new technology-themed
crossword puzzle using only words related to engineering, science, mathematics, chemistry,
physics, astronomy, etc. At least 10 clues in this puzzle with an asterisk (*)
are pulled from this past week's (11/13 - 11/17) "Tech Industry Headlines" column on
the RF Cafe homepage. Enjoy!
cruciverbalist:
[noun] cruci- ("cross") + verbal ("words") + -ist ("agent, person") -- A person who
constructs crosswords.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF Cafe
is prohibited. acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

1. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
5. The Microwave Office software company (abbr.) 8. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
9. Chemical symbol for cobalt 11. Chemical symbol for mendelevium 13. Bill Gates Buys
Huge _____ of Land in Arizona to Build "(+7 Down)" * 16. Local Oscillator (abbr.) 17.
File name extension for an ASCII file 19. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.) 20.
Precision approach radar (abbr.) 21. Martin ____, "Test & Measurement World" magazine
editor (c2009) 23. Quickly changing portion of waveform 24. Skyworks' Q4 Revenue _____
9% to Record $985M * 25. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association 28. U.S. Cellular
Sees 51% Increase in ____ (+97 Down) * 31. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)
32. The design component of total product cost (abbr.) 34. 10E1 numerical prefix (pl.)
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2. Chemical symbol for europium 3. Circuit for maintaining
constant voltage (abbr.) 4. _______-____ Nickel-78 Is Doubly Magic * 5. Abbreviation
for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat) 6. Write-Once (abbr.) 7. Bill
Gates Buys Huge (+13 Across) of Land in Arizona to Build '_____ ____' (2 wds) * 10. Semiconductor
Super Cycle: Market Trends, Drivers and _________ * 12. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)
14. 3 MHz to 30 MHz 15. Chemical symbol for neptunium 16. Be behind in phase 18.
Pure carrier (abbr.) 20. Chemical symbol for palladium 22. Enhanced Graphics Adapter
23. IC killer (abbr.) 26. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity 27. Network department
(abbr.) 29. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.) 30. Transformer interwinding connection 32.
Unit of inductance (abbr.) 33. Chemical symbol for erbium 36. Chemical symbol for californium
37. Unit of time (abbr.) 39. International Reply Coupon (abbr.) 41. Silicon transistor
type (abbr.) 43. A receiver circuit consisting of a beat frequency oscillator and additional
circuitry for enhanced reception of SSB signals (2 wds.) 44. An abrupt change in a parametric
value (pl.) 46. _____________ Super Cycle: Market Trends, Drivers and Forecasts * 48.
Chemical symbol for nickel 50. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
51. U.S. Trade Commission _____________ Apple * 53. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
56. PC follower 58. Input intercept point (abbr.) 59. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro
Devices 63. Chemical symbol for arsenic 65. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
67. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.) 69. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)
74. Chemical symbol for gold 77. Unit of length (abbr.) 79. Ham abbreviation indicating
contacts with all major land masses 80. Cellphone band just below PCS 84. Chemical symbol
for neodymium 86. Type of logic gate 88. Type of current flow (abbr.) 90. Chemical
symbol for rhodium 92. Electromotive force (abbr.) 94. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency
97. U.S. Cellular Sees 51% Increase in (+28 Across) ___________ * 99. Its chemical symbol
is Be 101. Chemical symbol for antimony 102. Start frequency (abbr.) 103. U.S. Semi
Chemical _________ Lost Market Share over Past Decade * 105. Ham's code for "The net has
traffic for you. Stand by." 107. Switch position 108. Decimeter (abbr.) 109. Peripheral
Component Interface (abbr.) 111. Chemical symbol for argon 113. Chemical symbol for
thallium 115. Precision landing system (abbr.) 116. Notch type filter (abbr.) 119.
Output intercept point (abbr.) 120. Chemical symbol for strontium 122. Amateur radio
abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.) 123. Software engineering tool (abbr.) 125.
Greek letter used for frequency 126. Chemical symbol for chlorine 129. Graphics file
extension 130. Direct Digital Synthesis (abbr.) 132. Mate to an RX 134. Modern battlefield
technique (abbr.)
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35. Test point (abbr.) 36. Leading and trailing
edge frequency variation of a CW pulse 38. Chemical symbol for platinum 39. Band between
RF and BB 40. Chemical symbol for tin 42. Type of logic gate 43. It can follow an
MS 45. Ratio of circumference to diameter 47. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.) 49.
Charged particle 52. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors 54. Galilean moon
55. Chemical symbol for scandium 56. Army-Navy specification prefix 57. Degree of IC
sophistication (abbr.) 59. Amateur radio operating mode for sharing real-time video (abbr.)
60. International Telecommunications Union 61. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
62. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor 64. The system than converts common website
names to IP addresses (abbr.) 66. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 67. Network department
(abbr.) 68. Chemical symbol for tantalum 70. Unit of length (abbr.) 71. IC killer
(abbr.) 72. Current-voltage phase mnemonic 73. 10E1 numerical prefix 75. Akin to
an EE, CE, AE, etc. 76. Unit of time (abbr.) 77. Mass unit (abbr.) 78. Archaic abbreviation
for picowatt 80. Direct Memory Access (abbr.) 81. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
82. International Reply Coupon (abbr.) |
83. RF connector type 85. Semiconductor On Insulator
(abbr.) 87. Opposite of I.D. 88. PC follower 89. Infrared (abbr.) 91. Chemical
symbol for radon 92. Engineering Change Order (abbr.) 93. 30 GHz to 300 GHz 95. Related
to FM by a differential 96. Effective frontal area presented to a microwave interrogation
system (abbr.)98. Centimeter (abbr.) 100. Start frequency (abbr.) 102. A BPF specification
(abbr.) 104. Equalizer (abbr.) 106. Glues together 109. Chemical symbol for plutonium
110. Rádio Nacional de Angola (abbr.) 112. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor 113.
___/IP scheme for networked connectivity 114. First man to orbit the earth - ____ Gagarin
116. Target indication on a radar display 117. Hedy _____, Hollywood actress with first
patent for spread spectrum communications 118. Signal amplitude degradation due to inefficiency
121. An ellipse has two of them 124. Type of digital filter (abbr.) 125. Negative temperature
coefficient (abbr.) 127. Software engineering tool (abbr.) 128. One type of electron
spin 129. Assemble 131. Chemical symbol for erbium 132. Chemical symbol for thulium
133. Morse Code for "from" 135. Qualcomm Must Raise Offer or Abandon Pursuit of ___ *
136. Shortwave listener (abbr.) |
See solution below

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