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Mixed Signals

◆ · By Wayne Mesard · Published 12 months ago

Constructor's Note
This is by far the nerdiest puzzle I've ever constructed, so limited appeal. But I've got a lock on the coveted Gen-X UNIX software engineer demographic!
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  • Mike D 6:19 · 12 months ago
    Love it!
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    Potter's pointer
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Potter's pointer
    2. 5A
      Alternatives to SSDs
    3. 9A
      ___ Paulo, Brazil
    4. 12A
      "Plant ___ and see what grows / The earth will do the rest"
    5. 14A
      Second longest river in Switzerland
    6. 15A
      Neighbor of ARG and BRA
    7. 16A
      POSIX message to send when you want the driver to pull over?
    8. 18A
      Put some money down
    9. 19A
      what3words.com, e.g.
    10. 20A
      Hans Christian Andersen was a great one
    11. 21A
      Stack-based programming language, named after artist Mondrian, in which programs look like abstract paintings
    12. 22A
      Parameter in the TCP options field (keep this smaller than your MTU unless you enjoy packet fragmentation)
    13. 23A
      Big mattress maker
    14. 24A
      RSVP card, e.g.
    15. 25A
      POSIX message an ambulance driver sends before taking another job?
    16. 27A
      Big catch
    17. 29A
      Something dropped during a full moon
    18. 30A
      VxWorks, e.g.
    19. 32A
      Promises
    20. 36A
      POSIX message to send when you want to peer pressure someone into smoking?
    21. 40A
      Blue-chip market indicator
    22. 41A
      Actress Shire of "Rocky" and "The Godfather"
    23. 42A
      !0
    24. 43A
      "Lovely" Beatles meter maid
    25. 44A
      "He loves," in Latin
    26. 45A
      Dragged out of the Trash folder
    27. 47A
      Browser that facilitates privacy, but also fraud and child abuse, so...y'know, it's complicated
    28. 48A
      POSIX message that the school nurse sends when your kid needs to be picked up?
    29. 49A
      Paris's___de la Cite, home of Notre-Dame (or rather the Notre-Dame reconstruction project; too soon?)
    30. 50A
      Make a sharp turn
    31. 51A
      Silent Protagonist of Portal and Portal 2
    32. 52A
      Practically obsolete media for storing data...or money
    33. 53A
      Administrative state agency that keeps our food safe, which deregulation dorks are trying to dismantle
    34. 54A
      Edward Fredkin's trie, e.g.
    Down
    1. 1D
      Showed willingness
    2. 2D
      Ridonculous
    3. 3D
      Give insufficient attention to
    4. 4D
      One of two options at a supermarket checkout
    5. 5D
      May cause headaches in people suffering from a certain nocebo effect
    6. 6D
      Contents of a .csv file
    7. 7D
      Release, as an album...or the other shoe
    8. 8D
      Back-to-school mo.
    9. 9D
      Outback producer
    10. 10D
      "Well, ___ the lucky one!"
    11. 11D
      Beat in a pie-eating contest
    12. 13D
      #DEB587, e.g. (grayish-brown)
    13. 17D
      Type of graph paper useful for plotting exponential growth over time
    14. 20D
      Java interface whose methods include addFirst() and addLast()
    15. 23D
      Actress Madeleine of "12 Monkeys"
    16. 25D
      Hindu text, from the Sanskrit word for "thread"
    17. 26D
      "The Avengers" heroine (no, not those Avengers; think Diana Rigg or Uma Thurman)
    18. 28D
      Tomato or cucumber, to botanists
    19. 31D
      Cleaned (off), as a counter
    20. 33D
      In a state of agitation
    21. 34D
      Wagon wheel pasta
    22. 35D
      Wrap, as an infant (and why did it take so long for us to start using Velcro for this task?!)
    23. 36D
      Type of IP address you get from EC2's AllocateAddress, but not from DHCP
    24. 37D
      What I say when I look in the mirror...or what an object in the Survivor 2 space of the Java heap might say when it looks in the mirror
    25. 38D
      Gives the stink eye
    26. 39D
      Prime Minister Gandhi who was assassinated in 1984
    27. 43D
      Right: Ger.
    28. 45D
      Even sharper turns
    29. 46D
      Inc. alternative
    30. 48D
      "Law & Order: ___" (23 seasons and counting)
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