21 x 21 Crossword: “A Riddle”
1. Traditional place where virtuous pagans and unbaptized infants end up
6. Hebrew letter
10. NT book with twenty-eight chapters
14. Thread holder
19. Great Old Testament prophet (DR)
20. Bar mitzvah dance
21. Canaanite god of the thunder storm
22. "___ and See" (Eucharistic hymn by Bob Hurd)
23. With 45, 64, 84 and 108 across, the answer to the riddle: "How is it that the oldest man who ever lived died before his father did?
25. Halo, e.g.
26. Set of moral principles
27. "...and birds came and ___ it up." (Mat 13:4)
28. Ethnicity of Darius (Dan 10:21)
29. Actor Alan ___, who attended Archbishop Stepinac High School and Fordham University, both in New York
30. Book after Wisdom
31. Paul caused one in Jerusalem (Acts 21:30-31)
33. Soul of Rome?
34. ___ Sancte Spiritus, the "Golden Sequence"
35. One who believes in a god or gods
38. Habit hood
40. Roman law
41. Hebrew letter
45. See 23 across
49. Archaeological site
50. Son of Rehoboam by Maacah (2 Chr 11:20)
51. One a-milking?
52. ___ Sophia, basilica turned mosque, and UNESCO World Heritage Site
54. ___ California
55. "...the former earth had passed away, and the ___ was no more." (Rev 21:1)
56. Swiss canton
57. Florence's river
58. Evil spirit (Var.)
60. St. Juliana of ___, promoter of the feast of Corpus Christi (d.1258, f.4-6)
62. "___ Sing" (Breviary hymn by Lucien Deiss)
63. Where Merton summered while at Columbia U.
64. See 23 across
68. Monsignor, e.g.
69. "Bendita Tu ___ entre todas las mujeres..." (Dios te salve, Maria)
70. Biblical port city near Ezion-Geber (1 Kgs 9:26)
71. Place of Jacob's dream
72. What a left hand shouldn't know a right is giving?
73. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:28)
74. Stigmatines, initially
77. "Hard Road to Glory" author
78. ___ Maria, Frank Duff organization
80. "...you have no ___ what your life will be like tomorrow." (Jas 4:14)
81. King of Moab (2 Kgs 3:4)
83. Bass, for one
84. See 23 across
87. St. ___ of Antioch, martyr (d.304, f.4-20)
89. Greek H
90. Bonny one
91. Saintly Egyptian soldier who fled persecution under Diocletian and became a hermit (d.300, f.11-11)
92. Old Prayer Book binding leather
94. Sacred artwork
96. Patron saint of domestic workers (d.1278, f.4-27)
97. Saintly Bishop of Avranches and founder of the Monastery at Mont-St-Michel (d.725, f.9-10)
100. Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, on a cross
101. Edomite who betrayed David to Saul
103. Society of African Missions, initially
106. Where the life of a thing resides (Lev 17)
107. Mary's mom
108. See 23 across
111. Foolish
112. "Let it stand," to an ed.
113. St. ___ of Aran, Irish abbot (d.530, f.3-21)
114. Home of Sts. Catherine and Bernardine
115. Less clothed
116. Father of Shallum (1 Chr 9:19)
117. New people with old ideas?
118. "And all these things shall be ___ unto you..." (Seek Ye First)
1. "Eloi, Eloi, ___ sabachthani"
2. "...only then will ___ you continue to dwell in this place..." (Jer 7:7)
3. Biblical pittance
4. "A Christmas Carol" epithet
5. Ursulines, initially
6. Thing that came down from heaven in Peter's vision (Acts 10)
7. "___ Me in Life" (Oosterhuis hymn)
8. "Dies ___" (hymn)
9. Book after Mic
10. "There is ___ in Gilead" (hymn)
11. Island on Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27:16)
12. Site of St. Patrick's legendary showdown with the Irish pagans
13. Hearst kidnap grp.
14. St. Edith ___ (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
15. "Aeterni ___" (1879 Leo XIII encyclical)
16. Dept. of Labor division
17. Auditory
18. Poland's Catholic labor leader Walesa
24. Killed, biblically
29. "___ fair in love and war"
30. "...showing honor to the weaker female ___..." (1 Pt 3:7)
31. Saintly widow from Cascia, Italy
32. Son of Appaim (1 Chr 2:31)
33. Filled with reverent fear
34. ___ Sancte Spiritus, the "Golden Sequence"
35. "___ the night before Christmas..."
36. "They are gossips and scandalmongers and they ___ God." (Rom 1:30)
37. "y ___ sentado a la derecha del Padre" (Credo Niceno)
38. St. Anthony Mary ___, patron of weavers (d.1870, f.10-24)
39. Norse war god
40. Titicaca, por ejemplo
42. City in Naphtali (Jos 19:36)
43. Bl. Aleth of ___, mother of St. Bernard (d.1105, f.4-4)
44. New York cardinal before Dolan
46. Alpha's opposite
47. "Wherever it seizes him, it ___ him down..." (Mk 9:18)
48. Food from heaven
53. Hebrew for "my Lord"
54. Cherry alternative
56. Happened to
57. Buenos ___, see of Cardinal Bergoglio
59. Tremendously
60. Flexible
61. Patmos, e.g.
62. ___ on the Mount
64. Come ___
65. Prefix with centric
66. Passover meals
67. “___ and Medad are prophesying in the camp...” (Num 11:27)
68. Electric car maker
71. Bleats
72. Muslim honorific
73. Fruity drinks
74. Srs. of the Holy Family of Nazareth, initially
75. Part of Chaldea in Ezek 23:23
76. 2000-year periods in Babylonian astrology
79. Mother Angelica's station (abbr.)
80. Bl. ___ Merz, layman (d.1928, f.5-10)
81. “Go into the city and a man will ___ you, carrying a jar of water." (Mk 14:13)
82. Tobiah's mother-in-law
85. Patron saint of goldsmiths
86. Ignatius of Loyola's baptismal name
88. "The Father and I ___." (Jn 10:30)
89. What Jesus said one must do to his flesh
93. The Society of Jesus, e.g.
94. ___ room, the place to pray
95. See of St. Titus
96. Greek letters
97. Month a.k.a.Nisan
98. Arm bone
99. Big pig
100. "Lead us not ___ temptation..."
101. "May it be ___ to me ..." (Mary's fiat)
102. ___ Colonna, a.k.a. Pope Martin V (1417-1431)
103. "I ___ many tears because no one was found worthy..." (Rev 5:4)
104. "You Are ___" (Haas hymn)
105. Town on the border of Asher (Jos 19:26)
107. "___, and you shall receive."
108. Book before Ex
109. Letters after an Augustinian's name
110. Passover choice from the flock, maybe