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••Spring 2004/Vol. 8, No. 2

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Medical Animals
Created by Kenneth J Berniker, MD

Click here for the answers to this puzzle.
crossword puzzle

Down
1
Actress Meryl

2 Arnold ___ malformation

3 Piece of cloth carried by a mechanic (2 wds)

4 Dangerous insect

5 Indian rule

6 Greek god of love

7 ___ is (2 wds)

8 Indicate

9 Old enough to enlist or be drafted

10 Famed Chinese leader

11 Ripping away, as of tissue

12 Marked enthusiasm

13 Types of hydrocarbons (suffix)

19 Walked upon

21 ___ she (2 wds)

25 Snick or ___

27 Groove used in joining wood pieces

29 Vacation objective, for some

30 Relating to sight

31 Dark-brown viscid product sometimes used by dermatologists

32 Chicago to Atlanta direction (abbr)

35 Dangerous disease affecting coagulation (abbr)

36 Certain type of tuna

37 Adam Vinatieri's important asset (2 wds)

38 Aware of (informally)

40 Pre-antibiotic ___

41 Military education program (abbr)

44 Stores, perhaps

46 Mouthful of tobacco (dialect)

48 ___ girl! (Obstetric exclamation, 2 wds)

49 Strew with debris

50 Raises upright

51 Common place to put your 15-Across

52 Store grain in a tower

53 Adjust a camera lens again

56 Striped or large-mouth follower

57 Utah ski area

59 Santa ___, KP Northern California medical center

60 Scraps of food
63 "___Got a Secret"

64 Blood oxygen measurement, informally

Across
1
Sir Alexander Fleming, for example

5 Study Harrison's text

9 Cause astonishment

14 ___ Old House

15 The buttocks (slang)

16 "Nevermore" bird

17 Unnerve

18 Loose body in the knee (2 wds)

20 Third rock from the Sun

22 Tale

23 Certain football linemen (abbr)

24 Wipes out

26 Creatures of the genus Bufo

28 Certain abnormal ways of walking (2 wds)

33 Collect, as a reward

34 St Vincent Millay, and others

35 Edible root

39 Important keyboard target

42 Frightening creature

43 Item
45 Chevy Camaro model, named for an auto sport event

47 Device often used in studying coronary disease (2 wds)
54 ___culture (cultivation of plants)
55 First numbered vehicle in a race (2 wds)

56 Vector of rabies

58 Prefix meaning star

61 Newly installed SCPMG medical director Jeffrey

62 Types of forceps or clips

65 Award in the advertising industry

66 Actor Martin

67 Spanish is

68 Prefix with mere or phase

69 Wise men

70 Blood examination commonly ordered by allergists (acronym)

71 Type of progenitor blood cell



Author information

 
Kenneth J Berniker, MD

Kenneth J Berniker, MD, is a Board-certified Emergency Physician at the Vallejo Medical Center. He always 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. E-mail: kenneth.berniker@kp.org.

 

 

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