February Crossword

ACROSS

1 Doctrines

5 Catholic actress Holmes

10 Soft drink

14 Barrel of laughs

15 Develop

16 Egg cell

17 South American Indian

18 Enthusiastic

19 Refrain syllables

20 Intoxicating liquor

22 They often signal the start of a religious service

23 Earphone

24 Thin stratum

26 Berne’s river

27 An ocean

31 Encroach

34 Coral island

35 Sacred mount in Greek Mythology

36 Wool cleaning brush

37 Beef cut

38 “Let’s go”

39 Pull laboriously

40 “Fort” diocese in Indiana

41 “___ us, O Lord…”

42 Tavern

44 Holy ___

45 Scraps of food

46 Doctor’s orders

50 Spiritual classic, The ___ of Unknowing

53 Signal to arise

54 Decays

55 Examine thoroughly

57 Brother of Abel

58 Shrek, for example

59 Gossip

60 Start of a sphere?

61 Fleece

62 Soft, crinkled fabric

63 Sly look

DOWN

1 Notre Dame nickname, “The Fighting ___”

2 From that time

3 Variety of coffee

4 Norm

5 “…am I my brother’s ___?” (Gen 4:9)

6 Modify

7 Pulls

8 Diamond (slang)

9 Permanently, in poems

10 Type of vow

11 Like zero

12 Blunt

13 Second of a Latin trio

21 On the double, initially

22 Prophets of this god competed with Elijah

24 Jesus referred to Himself as this, rejected by the builders

25 Femme’s pronoun

27 Make up for sin

28 Ordinary ___

29 Engagement enders?

30 Fires

31 Calif. college

32 AKA Paul

33 Exhort

34 “…with darkness over the ___.” (Gen 1:2)

37 Tense

38 Pertaining to those who have received Orders

40 Jesus is the ___ of God

41 Medieval English monk

43 Medieval name for the Eucharist

44 Harsh

46 Charlie Parker’s genre

47 Bring up?

48 Thin glutinous mud

49 Catholics Pavarotti, Carreras, or Domingo

50 Black bird

51 Firm symbol

52 Juan’s “other”

53 City in which Acts ends

55 Great Wall nation (abbr.)

56 Capek play about automatons