RF Cafe Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

December 25, 2000

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.

1   Quantity with magnitude and direction

7   Blue and Gold, Grey, or Hyacinth, for example

12 Type of commercial wiring insulation

13 Angle described by hyp/adj

14 Appropriate

16 A little lower than microwave

17 National Broadcasting Service

18 Tap gently

20 Unit of acidity

21 Lubricant

22 Unit of inductance

23 Collect the debris of electron tube firing

25 Wires

28 Formal gesture of respect

30 Voltage-current phase mnemonic

31 Crystal filter type

33 2000 pounds

34 Bikini top

35 Therefore

37 Residence of a dean

39 Opposite of O.D.

40 RF resistor and attenuator vendor in Bohemia, NY

41 Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

42 Fragment of software code

44 Front edge of a wing, abbr.

46 World's only remaining superpower

48 Fastener

49 Type of digital storage device

51 Nuclear reactor moderator

52 Conduct

54 Summonsing via wireless means

56 Connect two points

57 Requires

58 Weep

59 Time delay, abbr.

61 RC glider endurance organization

63 Positive voltage lead color

64 One port of an amplifier

65 Resistor pack format

67 Pliable material

70 Manipulate

71 Hamburger shapes

72 Simpler

1   30 MHz to 300 MHz

2   Modern battlefield technique

3   Structures of columns and rows

4   Logic gates

5   Remote control

6   Connector vendor in Waseca, MN

7   Ratio of circumference to diameter

8   Logic gate

9   The Gipper

10 Figure __ speech

11 End of soldering iron

12 PCB metal

15 Nut, bolt and screw feature

17 Empty software code operator

19 Ten decibels

21 Japanese sash

24 Clumsy boat

26 Detachment

27 Sorrowful

28 Asian condiment

29 Athletic contest

32 Eroding

33 Voltage multiplier

36 Declared numerical type

38 Greek symbol of resistance

41 Hotel patrons

42 Flip-flop input

43 Transformer interwinding connection point

45 Border

47 Logic family

48 Input that forces the Q output to "1"

50 Relative of lasers

51 Airfoil shaper

53 Petroleum

55 Jehovah

60 IC package

62 Do like an airplane

63 Government program to bring electricity to farms

64 Digital filter class

66 High-level RF power producer

68 Chemical symbol for arsenic

69 Metal parts engineer

70 Component of product cost

Answer below