10/29/2000 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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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 4 Fur scarf 8 Resistance measurer 11 Small dabbling duck 13 Knock vigorously 14 Cause to decrease in magnitude 15 Isolator, oscillator vendor in Tampa, FL 17 Airline scheduling abbreviation 18 Low- to mid- frequency connectors 19 Regarding light 21 Metal parts engineers 22 Technical drawing structure 24 Wireless system 27 Time Division Multiple Access 29 Greek letter 31 Almost-Ready-to-Fly 33 Antenna power abbreviation 35 Electron property 36 Trim 38 Result of mixing chemicals together 40 Cabinet vendor in Simi Valley, CA 42 43,560 sq. ft. 43 Capital of Shaanxi province, China 45 Topple 49 Automatic network analyzer 50 Automobile 51 Horizontal Cartesian coordinate 52 Quickly changing portion of waveform	DOWN 1 Equivalent circuit using current source and parallel resistance 2 Diode type 3 Government program to bring electricity to farms 4 WWII Japanese PTO aircraft 5 Used logic gates 6 Averages 7 Consecrate 9 Musical instrument 10 LA filter vendor 11 Transistor predecessors 12 System for guiding aircraft 16 Owner of RF Cafe 20 To yield 21 Wire diameter unit 23 Islamic chieftain 25 State of USA 26 Small songbird 28 Length times width 29 Radar screen 30 Tavern 31 Capital of Turkey 32 Fake 34 Model airplane dope manufacturer 35 Stalk 37 SCR that can be turned on and off 39 French vineyard 41 Wife of a rajah 44 1e-3 microamps 46 Digital pattern coding type 47 Be behind in phase 48 Before
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