Can you solve this sleep medicine-themed crossword puzzle, designed specifically for Sleep Review readers? A hard copy published in the January 2019 issue.
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Across
1 Book about sleeplessness by Marina Benjamin
6 Many of these birds sleep during the day
9 Ending for expert
11 Laughter noise
12 Ear passage
13 The E in REM
14 Place to spend the night
16 Sleep surgeon, abbr.
17 “The Soldier,” “The Freefall,” and “The Log” are names for different sleep _____
19 Prefix meaning “upon” or “near”
20 Period of history
22 Bad dream
25 Poison
28 Negative vote
29 Where a type I polysomnogram is done
31 Cone bearing tree
34 Estimated healthy adult sleep duration, 2 words
37 Quantities, abbr.
39 Prosecutor, for short
40 Electrode accessory
41 “Hit the __”: go to bed
42 Flight where most people don’t sleep much, 2 words
Down
1 In the early stages
2 Balloon ____ dilation, a minimally invasive procedure that can clear some types of breathing obstructions
3 Disorder in which breathing stops when asleep, abbr.
4 Biorhythm-regulating hormone
5 Freezing liquid
7 Over-the-counter devices that may help people with insomnia, first word of two (place second word of two in 15 down)
8 Computer network, abbr.
10 Z, plural
15 Over-the-counter devices that may help people with insomnia, second word of two (place first word of two in 7 down)
18 The nose is one
21 Apprehension that can lead to lack of sleep
23 Ductless hormone-secreting gland in the neck
24 Hay fever, for example
26 Deployment __ resources
27 Controls the diameter and size of the pupil
30 Word indicating authorship
32 Doctor of philosophy, abbr.
33 Cheerleading word
35 Cigarette component
36 Understand
38 Boston’s state
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