A Focus on Women's Health
••Winter 2005/Vol. 9, No. 1

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Created by Kenneth J Berniker, MD

This is a tricky puzzle, BUT WAIT--Don't just turn the page! I'll give you a couple of hints, if you need them.

Click here for the answers to this puzzle.

Hints:

1. Six squares in the answer receive two letters each. In those squares, use the two letters in both the Across and Down words.
2. The same two letters go in each of the six special squares.

Across 1 Leave out 5 Half (prefix) 9 Blood test that looks at a muscle enzyme 12 Prefix meaning "vessel" 13 River associated with Shakespeare 14 "That guy!" 15 Prefix meaning "peculiar" 16 Aches resulting from whiplash (2 words) 18 Writing tablets kept at hand in the office (2 words) 20 Related to work (abbr) 21 Writer Tan 22 Round, flat-topped hat 25 Mediterranean island near Naples 28 World chess champion Mikhail 29 Course of study for immigrant to the US (abbr) 30 Smell ___ (2 words) 31 Genius, for short 32 Prison 33 Alternate form (abbr) 34 Performing star Calloway 35 Moisten with cooking juices 36 Blood test often used to examine the liver, for short (2 words) 38 ___ semper tyrannis 39 Jean-__ Godard 40 Virtual necessity for your hiking or camping trip 44 Gasoline engine component (2 words) 47 Feel sore 48 Ad ___ 49 College located in New Rochelle, NY 50 Notation indicating an unknown author 51 Chop off 52 Kiddies 53 Drug salesmen, familiarly

Down 1 Roman poet 2 Built 3 Egyptian goddess of fertility 4 Participated in (2 words) 5 Useful around the house 6 Nights preceding holidays 7 Soft-soled shoe originally worn by Indians, for short 8 Puddle of printing fluid (2 words) 9 Garbanzos 10 Piece of orthopedic hardware 11 Metric distances (abbr) 17 Nat'l org for roentgenologists (abbr) 19 Heart attack (abbr) 22 La ___, South American capital 23 "___ true?" (2 words) 24 Women's magazine 25 Vena ___ 26 Inland Asian sea 27 Valuable Monopoly property (2 words) 28 ___-fib (orthopedic shorthand) 31 Existed 32 Early host of The Tonight Show 34 Control center for an airplane 35 Long-popular disposable pen 37 "Ben-___" 38 Epic tales 40 Try for an infield hit 41 Teen-agers' skin ailment 42 Lamb or veal cut 43 Kesey and Starr 44 ___ Na Na 45 Infection characterized by a rash 46 Restroom, in London slang

Author information
		Kenneth J Berniker, MD, is a board certified emergency physician at the Vallejo Medical Center, and a medical writer and editor. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York Medical College. Dr Berniker has written for audiences including physicians, nurses/allied health professionals, and the public. His interests include bridge, digital photography, and both standard and cryptic crossword puzzles. Please e-mail your comments: kenneth.berniker@kp.org.

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