By Chris Codella, W2PA
May 16, 2008
This week's puzzle has a theme on DXPeditions and twists on themes pertaining to the theme. Is that clear?

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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