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RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines
January 14, 2018

At least 10 clues with an asterisk (*) in this technology-themed crossword puzzle are pulled from this past week's (1/8 - 1/14) "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. 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

RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines January 14, 2018

ACROSS DOWN
1. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer (abbr.)

5. FCC Opens Era of Wireless Charging '__-________' *

11. Wire

15. Base of the binary number system

16. Chemical symbol for neptunium

17. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)

18. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

20. BASIC program command

22. Chemical symbol for silicon

24. Unit of length (abbr.)

25. Common mode ripple rejection (abbr.)

27. Army-Navy specification prefix

28. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

30. Semiconductor lamp

31. Submarine Cable Record 144 ____ from Hong Kong to L.A. in 1 Second *

34. Electrical overstress (abbr.)

35. One state of matter

36. Pint (abbr.)

37. Have a positive phase wrt a reference

39. Chemical symbol for silicon

40. Not hot

41. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

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

43. Write-Once (abbr.)

45. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

46. One type of electron spin

48. Type of current flow (abbr.)

49. Type of current

50. Chemical symbol for aluminum

51. 30 kHz to 300 kHz

52. Chemical symbol for erbium

53. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (abbr.)

55. Infrared (abbr.)

57. Constellation : The lyre

59. Test equipment (abbr.)

60. Capacitor manufacturer

62. Miniature threaded RF connector

63. Frequency

65. Amateur radio operating mode for sharing real-time video (abbr.)

67. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)

69. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)

70. Complex Instruction Set Computer

71. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

72. One type of electron spin

74. Stock symbol for Dell Computer

76. Chemical symbol for berkelium

77. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr.)

78. Mate to a TX

80. Crystal filter type (abbr.)

82. _____ Offers iPhone Users Apology, $29 Battery Replacement Deal *

83. NCVEC Releases New __________ License Question Pool *

84. _____ Fixing Security Vulnerability in Its Chips *

1. 600 MHz Incentive Auction ____________ Ends with a Whimper *

2. Network department (abbr.)

3. Conductor size unit (abbr.)

4. Cause the temperature to drop

5. Positive electrode

6. Cellphone band just below PCS

7. Chemical symbol for tin

8. Test point (abbr.)

9. Nordic Mobile Telephone

10. A popular spreadsheet

11. Has the White House Sent a Signal on ____? *

12. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)

13. Chemical symbol for bismuth

14. German aircraft designer who developed the first rocket-powered airplane (2 wds.)

19. Centimeter (abbr.)

21. Ten ________ Predictions for 2018 *

23. Network department (abbr.)

24. Start frequency (abbr.)

26. Add information to a CW signal

27. A common battery cell size

29. U.S. Spy Satellite Believed Lost After ______ Mission Fails *

32. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

33. Ratio of circumference to diameter

35. Design News Announces 2018 ______ Mousetrap Awards Finalists *

38. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

40. U.S. Cellular to Leverage Machine Learning to Plan Small ____ Build-Outs *

42. Chemical symbol for radium

44. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

45. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

47. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

54. Crystal face

55. Galilean moon

56. Chemical symbol for radon

58. Its chemical symbol is Rn

61. 300 Hz to 3 kHz in audio (abbr.)

62. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse

63. Time delay (abbr.)

64. Chemical symbol for europium

66. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)

68. Chemical symbol for lead

70. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)

71. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

73. FCC's Ajit ___ Cancels CES Appearance Due to Death Threats *

75. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)

77. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

78. Chemical symbol for radon

79. Greek letter

81. Weight (abbr.)


See solution below

 

2018 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.

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

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Cruciverbalist:

A cruciverbalist is a person who is skilled at creating or solving crossword puzzles. The term is a combination of "cruci-" from "crucifix," meaning cross, and "verbalist" from "verbal," indicating a person who deals with words. cruciverbalists are often responsible for designing crossword puzzles, and they possess a deep knowledge of wordplay, vocabulary, and the techniques used in constructing and solving crosswords. They aim to make puzzles that are both challenging and enjoyable for crossword enthusiasts.

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RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Solution w/Weekly Headlines January 14, 2018

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