| NIKOLATESLA | Inventor of an A.C. motor and transformer, X-ray technology, and a vacuum tube amplifier: 2 wds. |
| ALAN | Scientist Hart who pioneered X-ray technology for medical testing |
| HOOVER | A US president and a vacuum cleaner (6) |
| PENTODE | Tube amplifier with five active components |
| ITDOESNOTMATTER | Start of an A/C installer's remark |
| BOMBAYDUCT | Part of an A/C system in colonial India? |
| DUCT | Part of an A.C. system |
| CRT | A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anod |
| NE | A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. |
| WEASEL | Furtive mustelid whose supposed ability to suck the contents out of an A"uf without breaking its shell gave rise to a term for equivocal or evasive words, used to reduce the force of a concept being e |
| DAMIENHIRST | This English assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist creates deliberately provocative art that addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality. His platin |
| DIGITALDIVIDE | It separates those with access to technology and those without, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |
| ABCS | While it's a bit of an A to Z, it's more to do with a subject's first principles (1,1,1,1) |
| WINNIETHEPOOH | Ursine star of an A.A. Milne series of books |
| YOLK | Word, from "yellow", for the golden heart of an egg or sunny orb of an A"uf with which to enrich brioche, custard, fruit curd, mayonnaise or even zabaglione laced with Limoncello (4) |
| NEON | Element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube (4) |
| BTU | Measure of power on an A/C: Abbr. |
| ISADORA | American dancer and free thinker who met her death in Paris in 1927 dragged under the wheels of an a |
| LUCAS | Australian actress who starred in Home and Away and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Isabel - (5) |
| TESLA | Engineer noted for his invention of the first AC motor and work on highfrequencies and vibrations (5) |
