End Notes
Solve a Puzzle, Stave Off Dementia
By Jonathan E. Pederson, M.D.
Solving crosswords four days a week compared to once a week reduces dementia risk by 47 percent (J Verghese J et al. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:2508).
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Across
1. St. John’s Wort may reduce its absorption
5. Pre- or post-___ care
10. Vancomycin target: Abbr.
14. Vena ___
15. Occasional cause of Montezuma’s Revenge (var.)
16. In Africa they may be killers
17. With 33-Across, popular 2008 campaign topic
20. Letters at the bottom of some letters
21. OR word that bodes ill
22. Erase, with “out”
25. ___ Lounge (where knowledge is gained without CME credit)
28. Cpl.’s superior
31. Actress Longoria
32. Unifying idea
33. See 17-Across
34. What Versed provides
37. Mete out
38. The classical version begins with “I swear by Apollo”
41. Allergic hypersensitivity
42. Maximize one’s stock options?
43. Bakers Square output
44. Academy Award winner Berry
46. Neighbor of Alg.
47. Winter hrs. in NYC
48. Surgeon’s final order in finger reattachment convalescence?
50. Draft org.
51. Slicer’s cry
52. The first one charged $1.50/mo.
54. Result of 17-Across for physicians?
62. Repast
63. Human ending? (suffix)
64. Part of a pre-op workup
65. Phenyl is in this group
66. Internet precursor: Abbr.
67. Type of exam
Crossword Solution
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Down
1. Post-op stop, for some
2. Vied for office
3. Duct prefix
4. Basilica center
5. Morphine, e.g.
6. Early hrs.
7. Part of the BRAT diet
8. Like a desert after rain
9. Second largest city in Pakistan
10. Trendy post-M.D. degrees
11. Bro. or sis.
12. Cast, as a broken arm
13. Bat wood
18. Terminate
19. Some old vinyl records, for short
22. Give new form to
23. Eye inflammation associated with arthritis
24. Lousy bard
26. Prefix meaning place or land
27. Well-founded and defensible
28. Greetings in Riyadh
29. Real or artificial caves
30. Leashes
33. Lump of clay
35. Computer programs, briefly
36. Type of poodle
37. Comic’s outburst
39. A ___ of Two Cities
40. Organ transporter, at times?
44. Like some ER efforts
45. Warns
48. ___ Jones Industrials
49. Brit. equivalent of USS
51. Chop down, as a tree
53. Capital city of the “old country”
of many Minnesotans
54. Org. of Minnesota Medicine
55. Opposite of ’neath
56. Snorkeling sighting
57. Cousins, uncles, etc.
58. General Robert E. ___
59. Rare feat for a hacker
60. Ambulance-chasing org.
61. Fashion inits. |