Tech Talk
Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting
Airplane mode
A storm--in Shakespeare or a teapot
(7 letters)
Tempest
Also used by texters, it's the "divine" 3-letter code for Namibia's Omega Airport
OMG
He's alphabetically first of the 3 Rice Krispies mascots
Crackle
To suffer a temporary loss of consciousness
black out
Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port
Thumb drive
Doorway part brides have been carried over
(9 letters)
Threshold
Don't be angry--GRR gets you into this Michigan city
Grand Rapids
It's the smallest in area of the 3 nations on the island of Britain
Wales
To purposely abandon someone on an island
Maroon
These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video delivery that typically uses data compression
Streaming
Math term for a digression
(7 letters)
Tangent
This dessert is the code of St. Pete-Clearwater International & completes its rhyming website "fly2..."
The Grammy-nominated "Women in Music Part III" was a production of sister trio
Haim
Chili recipes say to do this to the ground beef
Brown
Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error
Blue Screen of Death
A really fast heart rate
(11 letters)
Tachycardia
YUM
In Catholicism, bell, book & candle were the 3 things once needed to conduct this rite of exclusion from the sacraments
Excommunication
To give permission to start something, like when a studio says you can start making the movie
Greenlight
Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the RepRap project led to a self-replicating one
A small instrument found in toiletry kits
Tweezers
Going straight to HEL? Then you're on a direct flight to this northern European city
Helsinki (Finland)
"The Immortal Trio" of 19th c. politics were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster & this South Carolinian big on states' rights
Calhoun
To cut in a zigzag pattern, like with certain shears
Pinking