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Across
1. He loves, to Livy
5. Boast
9. Waldorf or Caesar
14. Machete
15. Possess
16. Dish
17. English prep school
18. Kazakhstan’s ____ Sea
19. Roof overhangs
20. St Francis of Assisi: “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you have men who will deal likewise with ______________”
23. Suffix for musket
24. Classic car
25. Hobbles
28. Peruse
30. Bill
33. Weird
34. Anthracite
35. Tend
36. John Paul II: “Animals possess a soul, and men must love and feel solidarity for our _______________”
39. Lug
40. Adolescent
41. Warms up
42. Chemical suffix
43. Lean-to
44. Handbag
45. Mimic
46. Total
47. Mother Teresa: “They, too, are created by the same loving hand of God which created us ... it is our duty to protect them and promote ______________”
55. Essence
56. Time periods
57. Birch, for one
58. Golfer Palmer, familiarly
59. Location
60. Marsh bird
61. Currents
62. Golf ball holders
63. Morays
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Down
1. Help a felon
2. Butterfly’s cousin
3. Lotion additive
4. Novelist ____ Morrison
5. Irritates
6. More unusual
7. Egg-shaped
8. Healthy
9. Gushed
10. Site of an 1836 battle
11. Wash
12. Two fives for _ ___
13. ___ Moines, Iowa
21. Drive off
22. Papal vestment
25. Used car, perhaps
26. Angry
27. Unit of distance
28. Garbed
29. Merit
30. Skater Lipinski, et al
31. Mountain crest
32. Stein and Affleck
33. Villa d’____
34. Manitoba native
35. “Moonstruck” actress
37. Early anaesthetic
38. _____ a ride (hitchhike)
43. Acts maliciously
44. Heartbeats
45. Eagle’s nest
46. Tablet
47. Actress ____ Hatcher
48. Lend a ____ (help out)
49. Bridge seat
50. A great lake
51. French 101 verb
52. Dies ____
53. Astronaut ____ Armstrong
54. Sets
55. Cap
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Designed by: Bob Carson
