RF Cafe Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle
July 14, 2019

Unlike all of the other engineering and science-themed crossword puzzles I have ever seen, every word and clue - without exception - in these RF Cafe puzzles has been personally entered into a very large database of relevant terms. The list has been built over nearly two decades of creating these crossword puzzles. Let me know if you would like a custom crossword puzzle built for your company, school, club, etc. (no charge). The same software, Crossword Express, has been used to generate the puzzle for all those years - made by the good guy at AUS-PC-SOFT (in Australia) that wrote the program. Read down near the bottom of the linked page and you will see where he was doomed by people distributing his software without paying for it (I paid for mine). I suffer the same injustice from people who receive my RF Stencils for Visio and RF Cascade Workbook software without paying me for my hard work. You might be surprised at how widely my stuff has been pirated. It doesn't provide much of an incentive to create new versions.

cruciverbalist: [noun]  cruci- ("cross") +‎ verbal ("words") +‎ -ist ("agent, person") -- A person who constructs or works crosswords.


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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle July 14, 2019 - RF Cafe

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1. Computer monitor cable type (abbr.)

4. PCB interconnect

8. Computer character set (abbr.)

12. Device under test (abbr.)

15. Satellite TV system

17. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

18. User Datagram Protocol

19. Filter type (abbr.)

21. 1.602E-19 Joules

23. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

25. Type of secondary radar system (abbr.)

27. Ham's code for "Take over as net control station."

28. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)

29. Chemical symbol for neon

30. World's largest yearly convention of gadget and device manufacturers (abbr.)

32. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

34. Chemical symbol for europium

35. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

36. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane

37. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

38. High-speed multimedia (abbr.)

39. Digital pattern coding type

41. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)

42. Below ELF

43. Prefix for 10E-18

45. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

46. Uppermost surface

48. System for communicating between areas of a building or vessel

49. Short for "intermodulation"

50. Rate of a radar transmitter's output waveform (abbr.)

52. The cell band above DCN

53. Its chemical symbol is Fe

56. Metric system (abbr.)

58. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)

59. Miniature RF connector

62. Inventor of the pre-quantum atomic model

65. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)

66. Large unit of apparent power (abbr.)

67. Chemical symbol for thallium

68. Switch position

70. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)

72. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)

73. Unit of time (abbr.)

74. One system's phonetic letter "z"

75. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)

76. Keyboard key

78. Internet address (abbr.)

80. Test equipment (abbr.)

81. Direction of carbon fiber strands

82. Service of the ARRL that helps hams solve technical problems (abbr.)

83. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.)

85. File name extension for an ASCII file

87. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

88. Electrical unit of potential difference (pl.)

89. International phonetic alphabet letter "I"

90. Graphics file extension

2. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

3. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)

5. __ + 7 Down is this website's title

6. Anatech Electronics Inc., (abbr.)

7. 5 Down + ____ is this website's title

9. Hub of the solar system (pl.)

10. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)

11. Internet protocol (abbr.)

12. Printer resolution abbreviation

13. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

14. Circuit or mechanical professional usually with an Associate's or higher degree and/or military experience (pl.)

16. Miniature threaded RF connector

19. Base Station Transceivers (abbr.)

20. Output winding of a transformer (pl.)

22. Amateur radio operator who is qualified to administer Amateur Radio licensing examinations (abbr., pl.)

24. Miniature RF connector

26. An overcurrent protection device

27. Amplifier vendor in Palm Bay, FL, now part of Spectrum Microwave

28. Maximum Usable Frequency

29. On-the-air meeting of hams at a set time, day and radio frequency

31. Type of component package (abbr.)

33. Type of current

36. Chemical symbol for chlorine

37. Unit of length (abbr.)

40. Causes a voltage or current waveform to gradually die out

42. Quantum electron property (pl.)

44. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)

47. Base of the decimal number system

51. Thin layer of material deposited a surface

52. Another name for a test lead

54. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)

55. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

56. A gaseous process that deposits insulating films or metal onto a wafer at elevated temperature (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for gallium

60. Chemical symbol for manganese

61. Intel 8086 or Motorola 6800 (abbr.)

63. Opposite of I.D.

64. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor

66. Send Morse Code

67. The "T" in ATE

69. A common lamp tube gas

71. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

74. Hit a component with an electrostatic discharge

75. Lubricant

77. Display type

79. Opposite of USB

81. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

82. Part of a FOR loop

84. Greek letter

86. Centimeter (abbr.)


See solution below

 

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Cruciverbalist:

A cruciverbalist is a person who is skilled at creating or solving crossword puzzles. The term is a combination of "cruci-" from "crucifix," meaning cross, and "verbalist" from "verbal," indicating a person who deals with words. cruciverbalists are often responsible for designing crossword puzzles, and they possess a deep knowledge of wordplay, vocabulary, and the techniques used in constructing and solving crosswords. They aim to make puzzles that are both challenging and enjoyable for crossword enthusiasts.

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Engineering & Science Crossword Solution July 14, 2019 - RF Cafe