ASH News Daily 2012 - Sunday, December 9, 2012 - (Page A-8)

Page A–8 ® ASH NEWS DAILY Hematology Crossword Puzzle — CREATED BY DAVID STEENSMA, MD — Across 1. (Pop)ular beverage made with Secret Formula 7X 8. Russian leader before 1917 12. Syn. for Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome and omacetaxine 15. Coronavirus-induced resp. disease that caused mass panic in 2002-2003 16. Pennsylvania state uni. that confusingly shares the name of another US state 17. Units of electrical resistance 18. Humans can live about three months without food, three days without water, but only three minutes without this 19. Deficiency of this “Fletcher factor” prolongs the Partial Thromboplastin Time, but is clinically inconsequential 21. Stat. for lymphoma survivor Jon Lester (Boston Red Sox fans found this number disturbingly high in 2012) 22. Cleopatra’s undoing 23. Musher’s transport (and – spoiler alert! – identity of Kane’s “Rosebud”) 24. Unflattering booking shot 25. Latin equiv. of “Yadda, yadda, yadda” 28. Life-threatening emergency caused by malignant cells in the pericardial sac 31. Red dye important to hematologists, named after the Ancient Greek goddess of the dawn 35. Neighbor of a Vietnamese 36. Rx instruction: take with each meal 37. Breakthrough immunosuppres- sant isolated from Norwegian soil fungus by a Sandoz biologist in 1969 41. Fugitive head of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (and improbable 2012 YouTube notable) 42. Corp. boardroom bigwig 43. Bullwinkle, for one 44. Hard work – months of this might result in an NIH R01 grant submission, which then, sadly, has a ~90% chance of rejection 46. He spied the Land of Canaan 48. Unit equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois in Great Britain 51. Constellation bear 53. Most trifling; rhymes with a type of fungus 57. Tonic’s partner, made from juniper berries 58. Symbol for measure of the conc. of uranium 60. Cell type that expands with t(15;17) PML-RARA translocation 64. Sphere 65. Financial watchdog org. that charged Martha Stewart with insider trading of ImClone stock 66. Dropsy 67. Aggressive lymphomas with both a MYC translocation and BCL2 rearrangement 69. Starting at the beginning of the calendar yr. and continuing to the current day 72. Century-old professional soc. for pulmonologists 73. Chief CNS neurotransmitter, which Ativan and Valium augment 77. Wrigley Field flora 79. Tests that US H.S. drop-outs can take to demonstrate academic skills 80. Parasitic roundworm that is a common cause of eosinophilia 84. Drowned river valley that remains open to the sea; Kingsbridge Estuary in England is an extreme example 85. Eponym for rodshaped azurophilic granule clumps found in myeloid blasts 86. Filled one’s belly 87. Chip in some chips 88. “___ questions?” 89. It ebbs and flows 90. Ligand binding site Down 1. US cable TV network that shows Congressional debates and abundant gavel banging 2. Sculls 3. Paper-thin brunch serving 4. Query 5. Aromatherapist’s substances 6. Break in the action 7. This was first thrown in someone’s face in a comedy film way back in 1909 8. Craggy peak; the highest hill in Glastonbury, England 9. His name was a dirty word in Atlanta in 1864 10. In France, a male friend; in the USA, an abbrev. for a coronary 11. Acronym for the fan base of the Boston baseball club; official citizenship in this fictional country has been offered (for a small fee) since 2004 12. How Scousers, Mancunians, and Geordies spell the scientific study of blood 13. Leech “venom” that makes for efficient animal phlebotomy Look for the solution in Monday’s issue. 14. Dark counterpart of comedy 20. Acronym for the time zone in Seoul 26. Former name for the ETV6 oncogene involved in t(12;21) translocation in leukemia 27. Cambridge immunologist who theorized that sudden infant death syndrome is due to anaphylaxis to dairy proteins – and gave his name to a test for evaluating hemolytic anemia 29. Rope-a-dope boxer 30. Yeats or Keats 32. Orchestra based in the largest city in Wash. 33. Wall St. debut; Facebook’s was a debacle 34. Designation used for a disease that falls into a large category but doesn’t meet more specific criteria; e.g., a leukemia without a recurrent translocation 37. The most popular FDR New Deal agcy. 38. Nay’s opposite 39. US Federal holiday celebrated since 1937 to honor an Italian sailor who did not discover America 40. Kingdom 41. Word with mess or press 45. Surgically created connection between an internal organ and the body surface 47. “The One” – Elvish language term for the supreme being in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium 49. Louse-to-be 50. Opposite WSW 52. Cathedral recess 54. Cataract site 55. Device for emergent Dx and Rx of cardiac arrhythmias, now commonly seen in convention centers and sports venues 56. Rheum. Disorder associated with abnormal ANA and ENA testing results 58. Gout of the great toe 59. Chain of amino acids 61. Brought back an employee who was laid off 62. The FDA’s law enforcement arm 63. Mouse catcher 68. Letter portion of the name of a CD28-SuperMAB that caused multiple organ failure in several human volunteers at the lowest Ph. I dose in 2006, prompting an inquiry 70. “_____ We Almost Have It All”, Whitney Houston? 71. Lab-based tissue disrupting device 74. Seaweed-derived Petri dish filler 75. Unit of digital information 76. Oscar winner Guinness who played Obi-Wan 78. Quash, Presidentially 80. Warmed the bench 81. Intelligent parrot-like bird, common in New Zealand, which gives its name to a pretty good beer 82. Load from a lode 83. Fam. of proteins that are endogenous inhibitors of apoptosis Sunday, December 9, 2012

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