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Crossword You say potato, I say ...
n rehearsal with the children’s choir, we discussed different locations in the church where folks gather—the narthex, Sunday school rooms, music room, etc. When I asked what
the large room was called where we gather for worship, one girl confidently said, “I know. That’s the cemetery.” Donna Burkholder Lancaster, Pa.
What kids hear During junior high Sunday school class I used a word the students apparently hadn’t heard often because they were all thinking: “Seriously, do people really care about the Dead Sea Squirrels?” John Mathre Redmond, Wash.
No bones about it Our grandson Karl, 5, accompanied my wife, Sue, for her appointment with our orthopedic doctor, who has a life-size human skeleton displayed in the waiting room. After my wife explained its purpose, he studied it briefly and asked, “Well, did the rest of him go to heaven?” Paul Shockey McHenry, Md.
BOB VOJTKO
By Richard Bansemer
Ascension Day commission
ACROSS 1. First garden 5. Way to buy a house for profit 9. Neck scarf
12. “9D them in the __ of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
13. __ barbara (long-tailed mammal)
14. Alphabet start 15. “Go therefore and make __ of all nations ...”
17. 4 and 20 blackbirds’ fate 18. __ Gallery 19. Say aloud 21. Fishing vessel (naut.) 24. Indian dress 25. Lower, variation 26. Makes fancier 30. Universal Standard Time (abbr.)
31. Backyard swimming areas 32. Retirement acct. 33. Wife of a maharaja 35. Sassy little rascal 36. “... and teaching them to __ everything that I have commanded ...”
“We weren’t able to afford both choir robes and church softball uniforms.”
37. Rants partners 38. Indian funeral fires 40. Boat or fish prefix 42. Citizen of Thailand 43. First address as president 48. Portion of a play 49. Stubbornly unyielding 50. Writing error 51. God called the dome “__” (Genesis 1:8)
52. Extinct city of 3000 B.C. 53. Wyatt __, OK Corral
DOWN 1. “And remember, 16D with you always, to the __ of the age”
2. Thai 3. Accident responder 4. Bee and bird delight 5. Ninth mo. 6. Leaf accumulation 7. Bard’s before 8. Informal wear 9. “__ them in the 12A of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
10. Off-Broadway theater award 11. Untouched tennis serve (var.) 16. “And remember, __ with you always, to the 1D of the age”
20. __une God 21. Jack Horner’s catch 22. Bus rider Parks 23. “All __ in heaven and on earth has been given to me”
24. Monetary unit of Guinea 26. Short-tailed sheep 27. 2,000 pounds 28. Toledo or Cleveland lake 29. Maples’ spring gift 31. Run the meeting 34. Lincoln 35. Acknowledge a superior officer
37. Fix the ropes for sailing 38. Teachers and parents meetings 39. Yakety __ (var.) 40. Paul’s first name 41. Saint’s glow 44. Hob__ 45. A shag rug made in Sweden 46. Good mo. to be in Paris 47. Cut off
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