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 If you have been around RF Cafe or my hobby website, Airplanes and Rockets, for any length of time, you probably know of my being a lifelong
fanboy of the Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles Schulz. This
week's engineering crossword puzzle contains the names of many Peanuts characters who appear in the "A
Charlie Brown Christmas" animated feature that first aired on TV on December 9, 1965, on CBS
(all the other
words are engineering and science related). Clues for those characters' names are marked with an asterisk. If you have never seen the show or
if it has been a long time, there's no time like the present to watch it.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation,
pl. = plural, wds. = words
Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that
clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.
1. Little brother of 60 Down*
5. Boy who raises a dust cloud wherever he goes*
10. Branch of physics dealing with objects in motion
16. Stock symbol for Intel
17. Type of data storage IC
18. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
20. Part of a screw that engages
the driver
21. Type of current
23. Unit of time (abbr.)
25. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
26. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
28. Engineering Change Notice (abbr.)
29. Start frequency (abbr.)
30. Little sister of 11 Down, and the character after whom our daughter
was named*
33. Error checking scheme (abbr.)
34. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide
36. Network configuration type
37. Release
control over
38. Online service (abbr.)
39. Last name of 11 Down and 30 Across*
41. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices
43. Temporary
Engineering Change document (abbr.)
44. Chemical symbol for europium
45. Tomboy sports enthusiast and 'Rare Gem,' Peppermint _____*
47. The "A" in ASDL
50. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)
53. Chemical symbol for thallium
54. Power supply that change AD to
DC or DC to AC (pl.)
59. Group of data to be saved
62. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
64. Computer communication
scheme (abbr.)
65. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)
66. Very large unit of apparent power (abbr.)
67. The Brits call them valves
70. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)
71. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
73. An abbreviation for
"receiver"
75. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
76. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)
77. Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code
78. Chemical symbol for dysprosium
79. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)
81. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
83. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
84. Unit of length (abbr.)
85. Band between RF and BB
88. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)
90. Test equipment (abbr.)
91. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
93. Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
95. Yellow avian companion of 96 Across
whose flight path looks like Brownian motion
96. Famous WWI flying ace and pet dog belonging to 11 Down*
97. Signature participant in
a contract |
1. Semiconductor lamp
2. Chemical symbol for nickel
3. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.)
4. Official Space Shuttle designation
(abbr.)
6. Infrared (abbr.)
7. High frequency semiconductor
8. Related to FM by a differential
9. The central core of an atom
11. Big brother of 30 Across - Good Grief!*
12. Chemical symbol for helium
13. A common battery cell size
14. Chemical symbol for neodymium
15. Chemical symbol for tin
19. Direction of carbon fiber strands
22. European equivalent to the U.L.
24. Airport Surveillance Radar
(abbr.)
26. Constellation : The lion
27. Martin ____, "Test & Measurement World" magazine editor (c2009)
29. Fairchild Advanced
Schottky TTL (abbr.)
31. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor
32. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
33. Chemical
symbol for cobalt
34. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
35. Last name of 1 Across and 60 Down (2 wds.)*
38. Unit of atmospheric pressure (abbr.)
39. International QSL forwarding bureau
40. Referring to the atomic core structure
42. Internet
protocol (abbr.)
46. Frequency (pl.)
48. Chemical symbol for ytterbium
49. Chemical symbol for mendelevium
51. Studies for a test
just before taking it
52. Morse Code for "from"
55. The "E" in TEM
56. RF connector type
57. Does like a vector with a changing
angle
58. Large radio telescope in Puerto Rico
60. Crabby big sister of 1 Across*
61. Unit of length (abbr.)
63. Isolator or circulator
ferrous component
68. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector
69. Chemical symbol for erbium
72. Chemical symbol for cesium
73. Radio
Direction Finding (abbr.)
74. Radio-Electronics-Television Manufacturer's Association
77. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
80. Ratio
of circumference to diameter
82. Cellphone band above DCS
84. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)
86. ___-back transformer
87.
Pure carrier (abbr.)
88. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
89. Chemical symbol for platinum
91. Chemical symbol for holmium
92. Test point
(abbr.)
94. Chemical symbol for element #87 (Francium) |
See solution below
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