21 x 21 Crossword: “A Riddle”

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  • 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)

  • Down
  • 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

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