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Just to get started while I process some material for publication here I`ll add a few odd items from my own archives. to get the show on the road. If you're a Theme Compiler and would like to feature (fully credited) examples of your work here please get in touch. It would be a welcome relief to see Themed examples other than about aviation and computing!

Word List Snippets.
  First 30 Of Computer Theme First 30 Of Aviation Theme
  AMIGAMART
ANTISTATIC
ASKGORDON
ASKJASON
ASKJW
ASKLEO
ASKRUSSELL
ATHLON
BACKGROUND
BAREBONES
BEBBINGTON
BESTOVERALL
BLOG
BUDGET
BUYINGADVICE
CAPTION
CASES
CELERON
CHAMPIONSHIP
CHARLESERB
CLASSIFIEDADS
CLIPART
COMPANYOF
COMPETITION
COMPUTERMAGAZINE
CRASHING
DVDRW
EBAY
EDITORIAL
ELEMENTS		 AAIB
ABANDON
ABANDONING
ABATEMENT
ABBREVIATE
ABBREVIATED
ABBREVIATIONS
ABERDEEN
ABERPORTH
ABOUTTHEHINGE
ABOVE
ABOVEFUSELAGE
ABOVEMEANSEALEVEL
ABOVESEALEVEL
ABSOLUTE
ABSOLUTECEILING
ABSOLUTEMINIMUM
ACCELERATE
ACCELERATION
ACCELEROMETER
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENTDATARECORDER
ACCIDENTS
ACCRETION
ACCURATE
ACKNOWLEDGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ACTIVE
ACTIVERUNWAY
ACTIVITY

Computer Themed Sample

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1Popular abbreviation for a detailed description of features. (4)
2You may need these privileges to install XP software. (13)
3Peripheral to produce a hard copy of text or graphics from PC data. (7)
4Industry events to launch new computer products. (5)
5Class of computers capable of running Windows. (3,10)
6LED activity indicating your hard disk is being accessed. (8)
12No TalkTalk Broadband for you until you've done this. (6,2)
14HTML document. (7)
17Creators of PhotoImpact and VideoStudio. (5)
20Dominant colours such as red, green and yellow. (4)

 
Across

7Arachnid web indexer. (6)
8NASA's Space Telescope. Amazing images available online. (6)
9A standard allowing multiple devices to be daisy-chained. (Abbr) (4)
10Current events broadcast online. (8)
11Popular notebooks from Acer. (7)
13Faster than snail messages. (5)
15Acronym for application gateway. (5)
16Buy a PC from a manufacturer resell with your name on it. (7)
18One quadrillion floating point operations per second. (8)
19Forum slang to let others know your point of view. (4)
21Qualcomm's popular Email software is going open source. (6)
22Deluxe PSU favoured by King Midas. (6)

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