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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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