A Puzzlement

Friends are important. So is being friendly to those around you. But there may come a time when you will have to part company with some people. When does that time come? Discover for yourself by working the crossword puzzle, then reading in succession the answers to across numbers 3, 4, 15, 17, 28, 31, 42, 53, and 54. It is memorable counsel from the Psalms. Happy sleuthing!

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Crossword puzzle

Across

1. Saint (abbr.)

2. Feed ___ sheep (John 21:17)

3. Jesus, the ___ of man (Matt. 8:20)

4. Let this ___ pass from me (Matt. 26:39)

5. The ___ of knowledge (Gen. 2:9)

6. Temple builder (1 Chr. 6:10)

7. To be sick

8. Italian city

9. Fat of the ___ (Ex. 29:22)

10. ___ thy right eye offend thee (Matt. 5:29)

11. Friend of publicans and ___ (Matt. 11:19)

12. Lead ___ not into temptation (Matt. 6:13)

13. Opposite (abbr.)

14. Council Bluffs, ___ (abbr.) (D&C 136)

15. Hebrew prophet, M___s

16. Turkish title of dignity

17. Indefinite article

18. Owed

19. Delilah was to ___ Samson (Judg. 16:5)

20. Lord; thou knowest that I love ___ (John 21:15)

21. Certain kind of vegetable

22. The mysterious ___ of the evil one (Hel. 16:21)

23. Son of Bela (1 Chr. 7:7)

24. Toward (preposition)

25. Joshua was to ___ his enemies (Josh. 10:19)

26. Tahitian or Samoan tree

27. All things done by common ___ (D&C 26:2)

28. District of Columbia (abbr.)

29. Ancient Peruvian Indian

30. Prefix meaning one

31. Serial (abbr.)

32. S___ lily bulbs were food for early pioneers

33. Woman with box of human ills (Greek mythology)

34. Carest ___ not that we perish? (Mark 4:38)

35. Verily, I know you ___ (Matt. 25:12)

Down

1. Sculptured work

2. Prefix meaning “three”

3. He that receiveth you receiveth ___ (Matt. 10:40)

4. Answers for this puzzle and for life’s problems are in the ___ptures

5. Small African shrubs

6. A nonswimmer at Eton College, England

7. That which corrodes

8. Anagram of “Sue used a nut,” meaning “unaccustomedness”

9. Samuel ministered unto the Lord before ___ (1 Sam. 3:1)

10. Mistrust

11. Lamanite ___ of security (Alma 49:18)

12. Spreading stain over a surface

13. Electrical engineering (abbr.)

14. Latin for “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” (abbr.)

15. Swords ___ plowshares (2 Ne. 12:4)

16. Extended play (abbr.)

17. Deer for eating (Deut. 12:22)

18. He made them also to be ___ (Ps. 106:46)

19. I have been suffered to ___ my days in your service (Mosiah 2:12)

20. A ___ combination from the days of Cain (Moses 5:51)

21. A joining of two things into one

22. Chemical symbol for calcium

23. The ___ standeth still (Hel. 12:15)

24. Collapsible bed

25. Jewish Sabbath (abbr.)

26. River in northern Italy

27. Chemical symbol for gold

28. Solomon begat ___boam (Matt. 1:7)

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