Crossword is one of the most fun events that you’ll ever come across. It doesn’t require much effort to be good at crosswords. The key to being good at tech crosswords is solely experience. Unlike the crosswords that you might have seen in the daily newspapers, tech-based crosswords do not require a lot of knowledge about the world of tech but are solely based on puns. The only things that you need to know are the names of really popular tech companies, or products, or games etc., which you might already be knowing.

There aren't any hard and fast techniques to solve crosswords. However, there are a few common ones, knowing which will help in numerous questions.

Quick Tip: Focus more on pronunciation, than spelling.

Translation

Q. Beta kyu? (4) A. Sony

Here’s the basic approach that you should follow while trying to solve this question:

• Translate various parts of the question, while keeping the number of characters in mind. Lets take an example.
• In case of the first question, we first translate “Beta” to “Son”
• We know that the total number of characters in the answer is 4, So that tells us that we only have space for a single character left.
• Kyu translates to why, which can further be written as “y”, which is a single character, that we need.

Q. I gave technology (8) A. Mediatek

• This answer is pretty self-explanatory. I gave technology, when translated to hindi, gives Me dia tek.

Synonyms

Q. Detect an empty set (7) A. Spotify

• If we think of synonyms of detect, we should arrive at spot
• An empty set, in mathematical terms, is called phi.
• Together, we get spot a phi, or spotify

Q. Alternative name for toll booths (4,5) A. Bill Gates

• The question states that we have to find an alternative name; this should directly hint at using synonyms.