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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    May 16, 2008


    DXPedition Ditties


    This week's puzzle has a theme on DXPeditions and twists on themes pertaining to the theme. Is that clear?

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Call heard during November
    5. Bygone
    10. CQ DX ____ of fame
    14. "Hurry!"
    15. Deleted HK0 last name
    16. Hebrew month
    17. Org. not for OMs
    18. Less inept
    19. KH6 root
    20. VP6 air space?
    23. News manager
    25. Listened attentively
    26. The missing ones for your DXCC #1, say
    27. Suffix with MOS or J
    30. Engine sounds
    31. W8 - VE3 separator
    32. Provides weapons again
    34. What it costs to get to BS7?
    40. Less fat
    41. Three-ply cookie
    42. Kind of finish, on a front panel, say
    46. Modern alternative to a #47, e.g.
    47. Navigation radio
    48. "We got _____!" - early ham radio headline
    50. S, SWR and others
    51. Bad WX on KH8?
    55. Suffix with posi-
    56. "E pluribus unum," e.g.
    57. Elevator guy
    60. Lunar effect
    61. Plate
    62. Plenty
    63. Midmonth time
    64. Temporary guys
    65. EI language, e.g.

    Down

    1. IOTA item
    2. "Got it"
    3. IS-land island
    4. Talk incoherently
    5. Hamshack sign, when transmitting
    6. Grease
    7. Where to find a hero
    8. Fifty-fifty
    9. 0 or 360
    10. Prefix with -dyne
    11. KL7
    12. Listener to a QSO, say
    13. Belonging to dx-peditioner Colvin
    21. Sin minus 90
    22. Severe
    23. She sheep
    24. DL org.
    27. Wild
    28. Spanish PX
    29. Aligned
    32. Future fish
    33. Buro alt., sometimes
    35. Grace word
    36. A little number?
    37. Word with lightning, for hams especially
    38. Kind of admiral
    39. Geologic periods
    42. DX-peditioner Laine
    43. Tick or mite cousin
    44. 3-500Z, for example
    45. Metric 62-across
    47. KH6 garland
    49. Winds of propagation
    50. Long tresses
    52. Billionth: Prefix
    53. Last bit, in RTTY, say
    54. Like a splattering SSB signal
    58. PC key
    59. VP6 heading from KH6

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