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This week's theme: Easter and Passover
1 * Symbols of Spring seen during EASTER and PASSOVER
5 * PASSOVER was a Spring Festival in pre-Mosaic times, but then became a celebration of the Exodus of the Israelites from here
10 Small indefinite amount
13 * EASTER and PASSOVER are 'Movable Feasts' (religious holidays which change dates from year to year) because they are based on the cycles of the what?
14 * Some churches of this origin are among those that celebrate #30D
15 Physical body
16 Italian "one"
17 Word With Way
18 Part of a play title by Shakespeare
19 Concerns of Chemists
20 * Ceremonial feast of PASSOVER
22 * This narrative of the Exodus is recited during #20A
24 Double Drumbeat
27 Little Rock's locale on an env.
28 Part of a Milne book title
31 City of northwest Peru
35 * Item seen set on a feast table for EASTER or PASSOVER
38 Exactly: ___ even keel
39 Elizabeth or Eve
40 Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.
42 * State of the Candles at #36D prior to illumination
43 American zoologist Fossey
44 * Triangular Candelabrums used during #36D
46 More cunning
48 Cartoonist Walker
49 Initials associated with the Theory of Relativity
50 Blocker or Carotene
52 Mr. Griffin
55 "Veni Creator ___": Liturgical Latin Hymn heard during Pentecost (Seventh Sunday after EASTER commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost onto the Apostles)
59 * With #32D
62 * PASSOVER occurs during this month of the Jewish Calendar (var. sp.)
63 Locale of Yellowknife, for short
64 Stomach muscle, commonly
65 Type of Drama pioneered in Japan in 1383: ___ Drama
66 Bancroft or Brontë
67 Farewell remark
69 * It begins on #64D and ends at Midnight on Holy Saturday
71 Aromatic Resin of the Bible
72 Lyric poems
1 They're flightless in Australia
2 Part of a Margaret Mitchell book title
3 * Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion
4 Symbol for Tin
5 Self importance
6 It's often seen with Brit.
7 When tripled, it's part of a Beatles chorus
8 * Another name for PASSOVER
9 He (Initials) is the host of "Nightline" (TV)
10 * It plays a large role in EASTER and PASSOVER celebrations
11 Novel by Jane Austen
12 Cleanse with Cleanser
15 * At EASTER, this devotion represents the 14 stages of Christ's journey to Calvary: ___ of the Cross
17 Charlton Heston backs this org.
19 Heard in a Dentist's Office: "I have ___ between my front teeth. Can you fix it, Doctor?"
21 Word with Niño
23 Luke 'n' Laura's Soap
25 It's seen on a sign on a hwy.
27 * EASTER Sunday: ___ 23RD, 2000
29 It'll turn "Can" into Birchbark Boats
30 * Its date is based on the Julian Calendar: ___dox EASTER
32 * It is eaten throughout the Festival of PASSOVER (With #59A)
33 Salary increase
34 Social insect
36 * Ceremony of Candles during Holy Week (The week before EASTER)
37 Initials of the star of "Walker, Texas Ranger" (TV)
39 Newspaper promos
41 Suffix to "Ballad"
42 Ancient city of Sumer
45 24 hr. banker
47 Control a Colt
48 * The Thursday before EASTER
51 Her (Initials) latest album is called "Twenty Four Seven"
53 Type of Tide
54 He (Initials) starred in "Barefoot in the Park" (1967)
55 Hitch on a Hose
56 Coniferous tree
57 Veronica Lake flick: "___ it Romantic?" (1948)
61 Tiny round marks
64 * Word With Wednesday
67 Morning indicator
68 Alternative indicator
69 ___ and Behold!
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