Electronics Themed Crossword Puzzle
Thanksgiving Day 2022

Here is your custom made Electronics Themed crossword puzzle for Thanksgiving Day, 2022. All RF Cafe crossword puzzles are custom made by me, Kirt Blattenberger, and have only words and clues related to electronics, electricity, radio, radar, RF, microwave, and mm-wave engineering, optics, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical subjects. As always, this crossword contains no names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie stars, or anything of the sort unless it/he/she is related to this puzzle's technology theme (e.g., Reginald Denny or the Tunguska event in Siberia). The technically inclined cruciverbalists amongst us will appreciate the effort. Enjoy!

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

Electronics Theme Crossword Puzzle for Thanksgiving Day, 2022 - RF Cafe

1. This week's crossword greeting (2 wds.)
8. Opposite of O.D.
9. Chemical symbol for lithium
11. Ham's code for "Unable to copy you."
13. Type of chart use for project planning
17. Digital voltmeter (abbr.)
20. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
21. Second brightest star
23. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
24. Generated an official engineering change document
25. A common battery cell size
26. Word used in describing 2-D and 3-D object dimensions; i.e., 10 mm __ 25 mm
27. The "O" in CMOS
28. Opposite of USB
30. Base of the decimal number system
31. Wireless communications used by truckers (abbr. + word)
35. Shorthand for telecommunications
39. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
40. Chemical symbol for radium
42. ampere-hour (abbr.)
43. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
44. Consequence of under sampling
45. Greek letter used for resistance
46. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)
48. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
49. Unit of time (abbr.)
50. Keyboard key
53. Vacuum tube with five electrodes
56. Put a new program on a computer
57. Greek letter
59. Ham award meaning Worked All Zones
61. A false signal produced in a superheterodyne receiver’s circuitry
65. Chemical symbol for erbium
66. Test equipment (abbr.)
67. Common test for verifying high voltage tolerance w/o breakdown
70. ELI the ICE ___
71. Used to remove oxygen from or add hydrogen to a compound
75. A keyboard key
76. Printer resolution abbreviation
77. Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.)
78. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)
79. A common battery cell size
81. *DT
82. Test equipment that provides a frequency-domain signal display (2 wds., pl.)

2. Attenuator configuration (hyph.)
3. Yard (abbr.)
4. 10E-9 numerical prefix
5. S12 or S21 (abbr.)
6. Relating to any picture or visual information, from the Latin word meaning "I see"
7. The "IP" in IP2 and IP3 (2 wds., pl.)
10. Unwanted mixing of two or more RF signals that creates unintended frequencies
11. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net."
12. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)
13. High frequency semiconductor (abbr.)
14. Army-Navy specification prefix
15. Test point (abbr.)
16. The Brits call it a valve
18. Voice-operated transmit (abbr.)
19. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)
21. Heat measuring instrument
22. Circuit to generate frequencies
29. Chemical symbol for beryllium
30. Chemical symbol for terbium
32. Type of flip-flop
33. Army-Navy specification prefix
34. Constellation : The dragon
36. Terminations
37. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
38. Centimeter (abbr.)
41. A common battery cell size
42. Unit of current
46. Chemical symbol for radon
47. PC follower
51. Radio signals from the cosmos (abbr.)
52. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
54. Chemical symbol for copper
55. Bandwidth (abbr.)
58. Length times width
60. Automatic Testing, Evaluation & Reporting (abbr.)
62. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices
63. Key feature in a high level overvoltage protection device
64. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer (abbr.)
67. Frequency unit
68. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)
69. Cellphone band directly above DCS
72. Decimeter (abbr.)
73. UMTS terrestrial radio access (abbr.)
74. Chemical symbol for cobalt
80. PC follower
81. Chemical symbol for dysprosium

See solution below

2022 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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