RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines
July 8, 2018

At least 10 clues with an asterisk (*) in this technology-themed crossword puzzle are pulled from this past week's (7/2 - 7/6) "Tech Industry Headlines" column on the RF Cafe homepage. For the sake of all the avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new technology-themed crossword puzzle using only words from my custom-created related to engineering, science, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. You will never find among the words names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie stars, or anything of the sort. You might, however, see someone or something in the exclusion list who or that is directly related to this puzzle's theme, such as Hedy Lamar or the Bikini Atoll, respectively. Enjoy!

cruciverbalist: [noun] cruci- ("cross") +‎ verbal ("words") +‎ -ist ("agent, person") -- A person who constructs crosswords.

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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines July 8, 2018

1. NASA Embraces __________ Electronics *
7. __ Watchdog Accuses Facebook, Google of Privacy Shenanigans (abbr.) *
8. Automatons
10. Boob tube (abbr.)
12. Chemical symbol for nickel
13. Application Specific Integrated Circuit (abbr.)
16. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
17. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)
19. China Rising as Major _____ Power *
22. Verified proper functionality of a product
26. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (abbr.)
28. _____ Powers New Commercial 802.11ax Carrier Gateway *
30. Unit of length (abbr.)
31. 30 Hz to 300 Hz
34. Centimeter (abbr.)
36. Integrated Services Digital Network (abbr.)
37. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
38. Number or digital inputs that an output can drive
39. ______ Shortages Will Drive Price for Electromobility *
41. Opposite of O.D.
42. Compliment to a zero in a polynomial
44. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
45. Chemical symbol for radon
46. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
48. Chemical symbol for antimony
49. Chronological information added to data sample (2 wds.)
54. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse
55. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)
58. Type of capacitor dielectric
59. Chemical symbol for manganese
61. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)
63. Argentina OKs _______ Merger *
64. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

2. Elementary particle
3. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
4. Trims a piece of Kapton tape to length
5. Major Security Gaps Found in the ___ Mobile Telephony Standard (abbr.) *
6. Passing of a planet in front of the sun
9. Considered the 4th dimension
11. ____RF, passive RF component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC
13. File name extension for an ASCII file
14. Chemical symbol for cesium
15. NASA CubeSats Head to ____ *
18. 'Breakthrough' ____________ Algorithm Exponentially Faster *
20. High Data Rate
21. Rambus Fires ___ for Unspecified Conduct (abbr.) *
23. High-speed logic family
24. Slang for when a professor hints at an exam problem (abbr.)
25. End of Life (abbr.)
27. Type of component package (abbr.)
29. Third largest asteroid
31. Using minimum resources
32. Ham Fined $7k, Face Restricted Privileges in ___ Interference Case (abbr.) *
33. Integrate data onto a carrier wave
35. Configuration __________, design group that tracks product revisions
38. Sends a file over a network (abbr.)
40. Opposite of I.D.
43. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
45. Chemical symbol for rubidium
46. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
47. 10E1 numerical prefix (pl.)
48. FCC Task Force Looks into Proposed T-Mobile / ______ Merger *
50. Network department (abbr.)
51. Chemical symbol for selenium
52. Wire diameter unit (abbr.)
53. A disk operation
56. Nordic Mobile Telephone
57. 2-way conversation, Ham term
60. Chemical symbol for neon
61. Type of current flow (abbr.)
62. Unit of length (abbr.)

See solution below

2018 Crosswords Archive

Take 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.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.

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