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Clues:
Across 1. CT
13. Type of Comms (Afloat to NAVCOMMSTA) (3 words).
21. Machines that think have it (abbr).
22. A Sand____ (civilian).
23. Installs a lawn.
25. Fuel
26. Lives in a convent.
27. ____ gun (automatic pistol).
29. Not late.
31. Message traffic build-up.
33. Instructing.
35. Plaindress, Abbreviated Plaindress or Codress.
37. For example (abbr).
38. Baby Grand or Upright
40. Five digit station code (abbr).
41. Opposite of Don’t.
42. One of the Beatles.
43. WW precedence message.
45. Where Grosvenor Square is.
48. Deck rating (abbr).
49. Go back.
51. Sea Service Ribbon has five stars. He’s a _________.
53. Slink or Skulk.
54. A Signalman does it with two flags.
57. "This is" prosign (abbr).
58. Golf organization (abbr).
60. Not GENSER (abbr).
61. What the cat did.
65. Ape or monkey.
66. Bread or whiskey.
67. Seat
69. ____ Card. Don’t leave home without it (abbr).
70. A SVC (2 words)
72. Before CMC, there was _____ (abbr).
73. Amidst
74. What the cat said.
75. Billiards requirement.
76. Boat JFK rode.
77. Special handling message (abbr).
80. ONI’s other hat (abbr).
82. Where the patch panels are (abbr).
83. _____ as it is. Being what it is, and no better.
85. M&R’s nightmare, a _________ message.
88. What DCA became (abbr).
90. GEOLOC. Geographic ________.
91. Exists.
92. Left a will. In ______________.
94. Tax deferred savings account.
95. Pixie and Dixie.
97. Allow
98. Management structure (abbr).
99. Tax collecting agency (abbr).
100. Blood factor (abbr).
101. AMASS method (three words).
103. Where Tampa Bay is (abbr).
104. SeaBee rating (abbr).
105. Three sailors.
107. Suffix denoting a relationship with a country, region or group.
110. USMC E-5, for short.
113. Four or five digit code the Navy files with (abbr).
115. Pavement
116. No cost.
117. Language in Bahrain.
119. Laid down acrylic squares.
121. Mistake.
122. Cost of proposed undertaking (abbr).
123. @
124. Saint (geographic abbr).
126. Toupee (slang).
129. St. Louis state (abbr).
130. Contend
131. Circus insect.
133. Water prefix.
134. Ex-Radioman rating (abbr).
135. Intelligent Peripheral Number (abbr)
137. Perry Mason creator.
140. Convince.
143. U-boats.
144. Cook a turkey.
146. Refresh a memory.
147. Striving.
148. Warning beforehand.
152. Condition of drastic message traffic reduction.
153. Chief fixer of electrical things.
154. _____ that and the other.
157. ASC’s were the backbone of _________ (abbr)
159. Small cut.
160. Opposite of RECV.
161. UNREP commodity.
163. Revise
165. When we will get there (abbr).
166. The VO in AUTOSEVOCOM.
168. Emergency destruction document (abbr).
171. Highest classification (abbr).
172. Combine many sources into one transmission channel.
173. Argument.
175. Tibetan ox (or) idle chat.
177. One of Superman’s powers, ___________ vision.
178. Tiny
179. Fireworks.
182. Pavement gunk.
183. The admin Chief.
184. Stupid
188. Not under.
189. Not closed.
191. Belonging to actor who played Rambo.
194. Housing Agency (abbr).
195. Concatenation conjunction.
196. Not AD
198. Emergency Room (abbr).
199. Degree (abbr).
200. ____ Joke. Not a trifling matter.
201. Unvaried utterance.
203. Smells
206. ______ and nail. Desperately fighting it.
209. AA, AE and AP (abbr).
211. Leases
213. CT station in San Diego (abbr).
214. PMNN or PMOO (two words)
219. CDAA
223. Refracts light.
224. Bud Abbot’s partner.
225. One who revises.
227. Sandwich (abbr).
229. Navy E4-E6 (abbr).
230. Express surprise (interj.)
231. Debt (abbr).
232. Our rating.
233. The Maintenance DivOff (abbr).
234. HF antenna (two words).
235. Not Dad.
Down
1. A CT’s job.
2. Internal routing, after the classification.
3. NFL player from Tennessee
4. Not Over-the-Horizon (three words)
5. Site of the Trojan War.
6. Terminal equipment.
7. Occupation Advisor (abbr).
8. Civilian PSD (abbr).
9. ______________ Group Activity (two words)
10. Information Bulletin (abbr)
11. Major relay station (abbr).
12. Beneficiary (abbr).
13. Clearance guru (abbr)
14. Navy’s investigator (abbr)
15. Black or Red Switchboard
16. Circuit Request (abbr).
17. Web insect.
18. Previously NIC (abbr).
19. Not walk.
20. Where the turbines are.
24. Where the "I" branchers go in Monterey (abbr).
28. Soft or hard boiled.
30. Concur
31. Tibia or ulna.
32. What the RM’s called the CT’s.
34. Written reminder.
36. Boot Camper (abbr).
38. Computer (abbr).
39. Not delivered (abbr).
44. Once an RM or DP, now an _____ (abbr)
46. Message ID (always in Zulu) (three words)
47. Panhandle State (abbr).
48. What the Titanic ran into.
49. Fish eggs.
50. Ready, for short.
52. Receptacle cover.
54. Disagreement.
55. Not FM.
56. Engineering rating.
58. Handles news releases (abbr).
59. Disagrees.
62. Comm talk: You’re.
63. Retirement home on wheels (abbr).
66. 3-30 KHZ, 30-300 KHZ, etc (three words)
68. A Senior Chief at NNMC.
70. Drunk
71. Multiplexing method (two words).
72. Active or retired.
74. First word of M&R.
78. Violently impact.
79. Highest card.
81. Neither’s partner.
84. Rating before MS (abbr).
86. Stood up.
87. 20 years.
89. Officer appelation.
93. Opera
96. Popular 80’s band (abbr)
99. Wading bird with curved bill.
102. Aerial
105. A sent message.
106. Decay
109. 3-30 KHZ (abbr)
111. Chow (slang)
112. Degausser
114. Inning, in tennis.
116. Wine in a cask process.
118. Tape factory.
120. Building wing.
125. Golf accessory.
127. Unaccounted for (abbr).
128. Engineering rating (abbr)
132. Before DSN (abbr).
133. Mod 40 keyboard code (abbr).
136. Apply with a brush.
138. Exclusive delivery (abbr).
139. Chief of the turbines.
141. Nautical sheet.
142. WWII soldier (abbr).
144. RUEADCR eg (abbr)
145. Gratuity
146. Second word of M&R.
148. Gesture
149. Operations rating (abbr).
150. Wedding vow (two words).
154. Third day of the week (abbr).
155. Spell.
157. Aviation rating (abbr).
158. Go BI ________ (two words)
161. Ms. Fitzgerald
162. Signal aloft using pennants.
164. Long invective fit.
165. Unclas Special Handling Marking (abbr).
167. Order individually (abbr).
169. Suspect, smell ________ (two words).
170. Tropospheric scatter antenna.
172. Medieval war club.
174. Watch pocket.
176. Relative
179. Harper Valley ______ (abbr).
180. Always, eternal or best (prefix)
181. The XO’s boss (abbr).
185. Bolt’s partner.
186. Smell
187. Prayer ending.
190. Ever (poetic).
192. Newest (as in technology).
193. Swindle.
196. French cheese.
197. Taxi driver.
201. Signal converter (abbr).
202. Born (i.e. maiden name)
203. Convicted of a grave crime.
204. Easily done. It’s ________ (two words).
205. Fulton’s energy source.
207. Old French (abbr).
208. Blood (prefix).
209. Unclas Special Handling Marking (abbr).
210. Announcing system (abbr).
212. Powder
215. Computer memory (abbr).
216. Audio cassette’s successor (abbr).
217. Target
218. List of topics (abbr).
220. Senior enlisted (abbr).
221. Singing group "Guess _____".
222. SeaBee rating (abbr).
226. TTY that can’t send (abbr).
227. Every two years (prefix).
228. Thanks, in England.
End of Clues