Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle

April 22, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 4/22/2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Controlled impedance transmission line on a substrate (pl.)

9. Runge-_____ method in differential equations

13. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

14. Type of logic gate

15. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

16. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

17. Chemical symbol for xenon

18. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

19. Computer character set (abbr.)

20. Greek letter

21. Chemical symbol for arsenic

24. Chemical symbol for silicon

25. Chemical symbol for neptunium

27. Elemental compound used for microwave frequency reference oscillators (abbr.)

28. Type of high-tech data gathering system (abbr.)

30. Its chemical symbol is Xe

32. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

34. Company that leases lab equipment, in Lake Mary, FL (abbr.)

35. Factor of ten

36. User input device for a cellphone

40. Stock symbol for Raytheon

42. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)

43. Has a positive phase wrt a reference

45. Greek letter, used to indicate summation

46. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)

47. Chemical symbol for gallium

49. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

50. Type of component package (abbr.)

52. Half of a DIP

53. Does not pass electrical test

55. Opposite of a LO

56. One type of electron spin

58. Unit of current

60. Filter type that blocks lower frequencies (abbr.)

62. Peak Inverse Voltage

63. Scheme to maintain proper frequency (abbr.)

64. 8 GHz to 12.5 GHz

65. Result of subtraction (pl.)

1. Its symbol in engineering and science is phi (Φ) (2 wds.)

2. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

3. Chemical symbol for cadmium

4. Just entering the nonlinear region

5. System On Chip

6. Type of shielded RF cable with two inner conductors

7. Infrared (abbr.)

8. Time taken for one complete oscillation of a vibrating object

9. Unit of length (abbr.)

10. Country of RF Cafe's residency

11. Mate to an RX

12. Branch of physics that studies the motion of gaseous fluids, and their effect on solid bodies moving through them

16. Charged particle

22. The sum is greater than the parts

23. Slang for an Amateur License (pl.)

24. Chemical symbol for tin

26. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

29. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

31. WWW browser

33. Opposite of O.D.

37. 1/6 inch printer's measure

38. Compound used as the frequency determining element in microwave oscillators

39. Software language by Borland

41. Chemical symbol for thulium

44. Chemical symbol for argon

45. Work out the solution to an equation

48. MS's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages (abbr.)

51. ELI the ICE ___

54. Type of digital filter (abbr.)

55. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for lead

59. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

61. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

63. Type of current flow (abbr.)


See solution below

Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for 4/22/2012 - RF Cafe