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For two decades, I have been creating custom engineering- and science-themed
crossword puzzles for the brain-exercising benefit and pleasure of RF Cafe visitors
who are fellow cruciverbalists. This October 20, 2019, puzzle uses a database of
thousands of words which I have built up over the years and contains only clues
and terms associated with engineering, science, physical, astronomy, mathematics,
chemistry, etc. You will never find a word taxing your knowledge of a numbnut soap
opera star or the name of some obscure village in the Andes mountains. You might,
however, encounter the name of a movie star like
Hedy Lamarr
or a geographical location like
Tunguska, Russia, for reasons which, if you don't already know,
might surprise you. The jury is out on whether or not this type of mental challenge
helps keep your gray matter from
atrophying in old age, but it certainly helps maintain your
vocabulary and cognitive skills at all ages.
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cruciverbalist: [noun] cruci- ("cross") + verbal ("words")
+ -ist ("agent, person") -- A person who constructs or works crosswords.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of
RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds.
= words
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1. Object orientated programming term
5. Conductor
with enamel insulation
11. C# statement that ensures Dispose is called even if
an exception occurs
15. Chemical symbol for gold
16. International phonetic
alphabet letter "K"
17. A common battery cell size
18. Type of logic gate
19. Apollo 11 astronaut ____ Armstrong
20. Stock symbol for Boeing
21. Chemical
symbol for neon
22. Type of current
24. An abbreviation for "receiver"
25. Chemical symbol for argon
26. Network department (abbr.)
28. Printed Wiring
Board (abbr.)
30. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
31. Chemical symbol for
lithium
32. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
33. Chemical symbol for
argon
35. Chemical symbol for selenium
36. Unit of capacitance (pl.)
37.
Chemical symbol for selenium
38. Chemical symbol for lithium
39. Keyboard
key
41. Parts _____
44. Unit of time
46. Ham's code for "The net has traffic
for you. Stand by."
47. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (abbr.)
49. Type of file
operation error
52. Study for a test just before taking it
53. Radio-Electronics-Television
Manufacturer's Association
54. Armored cable type
55. Undesirable background
information
56. A star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually
returns to its original brightness over a period of weeks to years
59. Solid
of rotation
60. Parameter that is a figure of merit for receiver performance
in presence of multiple signals (abbr.)
63. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)
64. ____ Logic: Name give to devices surrounding and assisting processors
66.
Type of unidirectional antenna
69. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
70. Front
edge of a wing (abbr.)
71. 1E6 nanoseconds
72. Overall functional unit
75. A BPF specification (abbr.)
77. Morse Code for "from"
78. Person responsible
for program spending (abbr.)
79. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
81. Mass unit
(abbr.)
82. Crystal filter type (abbr.)
84. Unit for 1,000,000 watt-seconds
(abbr.)
85. One port of an amplifier
86. Slang for helicopter
87. Intel
x86 command for " jump if above"
88. Read-only (abbr.)
89. Intermodulation
(abbr.)
91. Circuit path with very high or infinite impedance
93. Galilean
moon
94. PC follower
96. Wheel attachment point
98. Opposite of O.D.
99. Parameter that is a figure of merit for receiver performance in presence of
multiple signals (abbr., pl.)
100. Kilohertz
101. _____-Carlo analysis |
1. Mathematical calculation of RF component string
(2 wds.)
2. Chemical symbol for lutetium
3. Term for asymmetry of a statistical
distribution (pl.)
4. Chemical symbol for silicon
5. Creates a code version
of a semiconductor device
6. Chemical symbol for gallium
7. _____ Microwave
East (part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY
8.
One of the Ws in WWW
9. Infrared (abbr.)
10. Mr. Fermi's first name
11.
Schema for computer or device presentation to the operator (abbr.)
12. _____
rule, a 1950s engineer's tool
13. Chemical symbol for niobium
14. GaAs (2
wds.)
21. Chemical symbol for neptunium
23. Chemical symbol for cesium
25. Chemical symbol for aluminum
27. Chemical symbol for scandium
29. 10 decibels
32. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)
34. Positive voltage lead color
38.
Low Noise Amplifier (abbr.)
40. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
42. Microprocessor vendor
43. PCB interconnect
44. Unit of inductance
45. C# statement that ensures
Dispose is called even if an exception occurs
46. Type of matrix barcode used
with laser scanning(abbr.)
48. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)
50. Antenna
gain unit (abbr.)
51. Stock symbol for Texas Instruments
52. World's largest
yearly convention of gadget and device manufacturers (abbr.)
57. Exponent that
returns the original number
58. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)
61. Chemical
symbol for iron
62. U.S. military organization (abbr.)
64. Global System for
Mobile Communications (abbr.)
65. Channel used for earth-to-satellite communications
67. Aluminum Gallium Arsenide
68. Bands between RF and baseband
71. One axis
of an ellipse
73. A major search engine
74. World's 1st fully electronic digital
computer (abbr.)
76. Monte-_____ analysis
78. Centimeter (abbr.)
80. Army-Navy
specification prefix
81. Unit for 1,000 watt-seconds (abbr.)
83. Write-Once
(abbr.)
90. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
92. Unit of time (abbr.)
93. S12 or S21 (abbr.)
95. Chemical symbol for thallium
97. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
98. Network department
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