••Fall 2005/Vol. 9, No. 4
A Focus on Innovation and Transfer

Crossword

"Making Rounds" | to pdf version >>
Created by Kenneth J Berniker, MD

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Across 1 Exactly vertical 6 Take a dive 11 Large tub 14 To no ___ 15 2nd largest of the Great Lakes 16 "___ Got a Secret" 17 Movement of blood around the body 19 Sun Yat-___ 20 Does a radiologist's work, often 21 Sew 23 Not Down 26 No less than (2 wds) 27 Unintended result of infertility treatment, perhaps 28 Make short movements up and down 30 City of southeast France 31 Large vessels for making coffee 32 Abysmal 34 Test often performed by an RT (abbr) 35 Out, or away (2 wds) 36 Former Red Sox slugger Carl, for short 39 Beats rapidly, as the heart 41 Highest point 42 Produce flowers 44 Places to take pts w/MIs or trauma (abbr) 45 Actress Andrews of "The Sound of Music" 46 Rower 48 People who sit before art classes 49 Authoritative guideline 50 Ridge on a bone such as the ilium 52 Before, poetically 53 Curved structure within the kidney (3 wds) 58 Important figure for Alan Greenspan (abbr) 59 Assortment 60 Explode with anger 61 Tushie 62 Harvests 63 One of five

Down 1 ___-10, West Coast conference 2 56 3 What Egypt was called in the 60s (abbr) 4 Tiny distances 5 Having the most intense sky color 6 Herring that migrates up streams 7 Incises 8 The common cold, for example (abbr) 9 Enhance immunity, as with a vaccination 10 Made of circular segments 11 Repeating biochemical sequence in the eye (2 wds) 12 Strongly opposed 13 Principles 18 ___ Vegas 22 Actress Garr 23 Water, to a pharmacist 24 Restrain 25 Long-handled grasper with circular tips (2 wds) 26 Despises 28 ___ down the hatches 29 Possible last choice in a demographic inquiry 32 Marijuana 33 Org for paramedics (abbr) 35 Coin-like, as a skin lesion 37 Arab prince 38 Zigzag figures 40 Unable to find one's way 41 Very simple; lacking decoration 42 Hispanic grocery 43 Former Defense Secretary Melvin and family 45 Banters with 47 "That's ___", song for Dean Martin 48 Test often performed by an RT (abbr) 50 Device that treats sleep apnea (abbr) 51 Singers Orbison and Rogers 54 Mouths 55 Woman bound by a vow of chastity 56 Spinal taps (abbr) 57 French summer

Author information
		Kenneth J Berniker, MD, is a Board-certified Emergency Physician at the KP Vallejo Medical Center. Dr Berniker has long enjoyed solving crossword and cryptic puzzles and now creates his own. The challenges in creating the puzzles include: completing the grid with usable answers and perhaps a theme, generating interesting clues of suitable difficulty, being error-free in framing questions and answers, and injecting humor. Have fun, and please send him your comments. kenneth.berniker@kp.org.