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Working crossword puzzles can be contagious. This April 12, 2020, tech-themed
crossword puzzle may even go viral. It contains only clues and terms associated
with engineering, science, physical, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, etc., which
I have personally built over nearly two decades. That includes the cause for our
planet's current dilemma. Many new words and company names have been added that
had not even been created when I started in the year 2002. 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.
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. Bill's famous OS 2. Electrical safety
organization (abbr.) 3. Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (abbr.) 5. Output
intercept point (abbr.) 6. Infrared (abbr.) 7. Reducing in amplitude 11.
Device for translating higher frequencies to lower frequencies (sometimes hyphenated,
pl.) 12. Device that increase the frequency band of a receiver 14. Cyanide
(abbr.) 18. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.) 24. Describes many engineers'
current plight worldwide due to 1 Across + 35 Across 25. Satellite of Jupiter
discovered by Galileo 31. Electromotive force (abbr.) 32. Rapid variation
in the signal strength of a station, usually due to propagation variations 36.
30 kHz to 300 kHz 39. Logical gate type (pl.) 42. Color quality 45. Write-Once
(abbr.) 46. Chemical symbol for tantalum
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| 1. _____ + 35 Across is causing many engineers to
be 24 Down 4. _____-19, contagion first identified in Wuhan, China 8. S12
or S21 (abbr.) 9. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 10. Chemical symbol
for cesium 11. Add an impurity to a semiconductor 13. Type of current 15.
Constellation : The lion 16. Type of logic gate 17. Exponent that returns
the original number 19. Type of antenna with an element made of a single, flexible
rod or tube 20. A type of average 21. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)
22. Number of clock cycles in an event 23. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
24. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.) 26. Current summing point |
27. Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (abbr.)
28. Slang for transmitter and/or receiver 29. Last statement in a BASIC program
30. Transistor B-C capacitance 31. 30 Hz to 300 Hz 33. Adjust 34. Real
estate where equipment is located 35. 1 Across + ___ is causing many engineers
to be 24 Down 37. One port of an amplifier 38. Stock symbol for Raytheon
40. Unit of length (abbr.) 41. Unit of resistance (pl.) 43. Unix, Linux or
Windows (abbr.) 44. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.) 46. Test equipment
(abbr.) 47. Weatherproof cover for a radar antenna (pl.) 48. International
phonetic alphabet letter "O" |
See solution below
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