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At least 10 clues with an asterisk (*) in this technology-themed
crossword puzzle are pulled from this past week's (2/12 - 2/16) "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
1. Frequency band at high end of audio spectrum
4.
Cell phone (sold to Google) and IC manufacturer
8. Voltage-controlled oscillator (abbr.)
10. Archaic abbreviation for picowatt
11. Qualcomm Claims World's First 2 Gbps LTE
_____ *
13. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
15. Sample-and-____
17. Impurity
in a semiconductor that adds a mobile electron in the conduction band
18. Satellite
of Jupiter discovered by Galileo
19. Unit of resistance (pl.)
21. Home state of
Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
22. Chemical symbol for chlorine
23. A "0" or a "1," for
instance
25. Mars has two of these
27. Type of matrix barcode used with laser scanning(abbr.)
28. Spurious RF products created by metal joints (abbr.)
29. New IC Manufacturing
Lines to Boost Industry _____ Capacity 8% *
32. Amateur radio abbreviation for the
Oceania region (abbr.)
33. Chemical symbol for aluminum
34. Chemical symbol for
mercury
35. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (abbr.)
37. Sharp bend in
I-V curve
38. Switch position
40. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
41. Part of a
FOR loop
42. _____&Schwarz
43. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
44. Infrared
(abbr.)
45. The gaseous state of water
47. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.)
49. Pure carrier (abbr.)
50. Chemical symbol for neodymium
51. Tool for holding
parts while working on them
53. Chemical symbol for aluminum
54. Is Alexa Rejuvenating
_____? *
56. Open a fuse
59. Total radiated power (abbr.)
61. Sent a telegram
62. Color quality
64. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)
66. Plane
curve traced out by a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed line is equal
to its distance from a fixed point
67. ______ Predicts 2.5B Gigabit Users by 2025
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1. ____ Sector Takes Lead in Tackling Modern Slavery
*
2. Five-bit digital code used in teleprinter application
3. 1.602E-19 Joules
4. Earth's natural satellite
5. Prefix meaning temperature-related
6. Chemical
symbol for ruthenium
7. Meet the 'Odderon': ___ Shows Potential for Elusive Quasiparticle
*
9. Logic family
10. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
12. Impurity in
a semiconductor that adds a mobile electron in the conduction band
13. End of Life
(abbr.)
14. Ericsson Completes Its 5G Platform for _________ *
16. Regarding light
17. Decimeter (abbr.)
18. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)
20. Packard's
partner
23. Missed Opportunities to Put Engineering in the _________ *
24. Modulation
type (abbr.)
25. kOhm x 1,000
26. The central core of an atom
30. Unit of inductance
(abbr.)
31. __ to Bring Superfast Broadband to 580,000 Rural Homes and Businesses
*
33. Army-Navy specification prefix
36. Chemical symbol for selenium
37. Unit
of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
39. Chemical symbol for nobelium
41. International
phonetic alphabet letter "T"
42. Aircraft tracking system
43. Chemical symbol for
plutonium
45. Shortwave listener (abbr.)
46. Mr. Fermi's first name
48. Irradiated
cosmic gas
49. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor
51. ____RF, passive RF
component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC
52. Galilean moon
55. 10E1 numerical
prefix
57. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
58. ____ Routers Riddled with Security
Holes *
60. Rádio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
63. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
65. Unit of inductance (abbr.) |
See solution below
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