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My goodness! You can't hardly turn around without another eruption from sunwards. The bands are miserable, so what's a ham to do? How about a crossword puzzle with a solar theme? Dig in while you're waiting for long path to open up!

Ward "Staring at the Sun" Silver, N0AX, authors--among numerous other things--the Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler, which appears twice a month on the ARRL Web site. He can be reached by e-mail at n0ax@arrl.net or by surface mail at Aetherworks Publishing, 22916 107th Ave NW, Vashon, WA, 98070.

Across

1. Highly ionized gas
4. Splits light into colors
8. Sporadic VHF propagation mode (abbr.)
10. Practical joke (like the sun plays on us)
12. Lights in the sky
14. Assist
15. Where the asteroids hang out
17. Lasts for eleven years on the sun
18. Magnetic metal (Chemical symbol)
19. Active region on the sun's surface
21. Almost a gamma ray
23. To start (abbr.)
24. Wind (v.)
26. Propelled by solar light
29. Smallest of the contiguous 48 states
30. Coronal Mass ........
34. Major and minor
36. Most common conductive metal (Chemical symbol)
37. Complement to AND
38. Complementary to electric
42. Lets mass escape from the sun
45. Series of orbiting Russian translators
46. Is too! Is ...!
47. As well
49. Large and sudden release of energy
51. Prefix for WRTC-2006 host
52. The graven image of a sun god
53. What you get when you're fired
54. Not either
56. Forces in space
57. Just beyond violet
59. Blows from the sun
60. Number (abbr.)
61. Peaks (plural)
62. Exchange money for goods

Down

1. They go around the sun
2. Light surrounding an object or star
3. Russian space station
4. Makes perfect
5. Metal guide
6. A and K are this type of number
7. End of contact (prosign)
9. Orbits the earth
11. Propagation across the equator (abbr.)
13. When the field's not quiet
15. Loss of propagation
16. Below MF
20. DX path easiest to disturb
22. Beam optimizer program
25. Heat light
27. Physics of space
28. Just less than a liter (abbr.)
31. Prevents reception
32. Calling (abbr.)
33. Frozen liquid
34. Solar observatory in space (acronym)
35. Propagation off of ionized trails (acronym)
39. Agency who watches Earth
40. Not out
41. Sun's outer atmosphere
43. Region of the ionosphere
44. Complementary axis to az
45. Retinal cell that detects light
48. Abrupt radio shutdown (acronym)
49. Solar energy reported by WWV
50. Receive (abbr.)
51. Maximum meter deflection
54. Cut off or pinch
55. Ready (abbr.)
58. Half dozen Romans