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••Summer 2004/Vol. 8, No. 3

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Crossword



The "Tools" of Medicine
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Created by Kenneth J Berniker, MD

Click here for the answers to this puzzle.

Across
1
In epidemiology, a group of individuals with a common characteristic

7 Isidor Isaac ___, Nobel Prize
winner in Physics 1944

11 ___-la

14 Warning signal (archaic)

15 Grows older

16 ___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

17 Slow to perform a duty

18 Mountainous KP region

20 Major-___, chief stewards to sovereigns

21 Blood test that measures an
essential mineral

22 Actor Wallach

23 Time-honored sayings

24 Dangerously weak, as a pulse

27 "Give it ___!" (2 words)

30 Surgical caps, essentially

31 "First, do no ___."
34 Catch adeptly
36 Tokyo, formerly
37 Type of sword
39 Ear contents
40 Banish a player to the clubhouse
43 Animal skin
44 "Have it ___"
45 Father of Jacob
47 Potential benefits, modern style
49 Twists together
52 Band that recorded Discovery
and Eldorado

53 Hazardous condition of late pregnancy
56 Summarize
59 KP Northwest President Allan ___
and others

60 Opening, as of the urethra
61 Santa's helper, for instance
62 Removal of the foreskin, familiarly
63 Type of wool
64 "___ what I mean?"
65 Vocalizes
66 Look provocatively toward (2 words)

Down
1
King or queen

2 Kitchen spread

3 Deformed digits

4 Cal Ripken Jr's team

5 Tchaikovsky's home

6 Structures seen with an otoscope (abbr)

7 Beat very fast

8 Wide open space, to an Athenian

9 Type of caviar

10 Mirror-image chemical forms

11 Former ruler of 5-Down

12 Perform again

13 Citation indicating an unknown author (abbr)

19 Up and about

21 Command by a doctor holding a tongue blade

24 "My Country, 'Tis of ___"

25 Muslim who has gone on a pilgrimage to Mecca
26 Players who bat but don't field (abbr)
28 Underwent an examination (3 words)

29 Commerce

32 Objective for 26-Down (abbr)

33 Mythologic character who always
had a bad hair day

35 Former spouses

38 Drug ___

41 Group of conspirators

42 Airport runways

44 Measure of fuel consumption, familiarly

46 Suffix indicating carbon dioxide

48 Buddha-like

50 Drinks no alcohol (2 words)

51 Flat, rounded structures

53 Female sheep

54 Spermato___
55 Vitality

57 Pre-seizure sensation

58 Exam taken by HS sophomores or juniors (abbr)
60 ___absorption syndrome



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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