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.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF
Cafe is prohibited. acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

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

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