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Incomplete Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings Crossword Puzzle

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Unless otherwise stated, this crossword asks that you fill in the missing word from various proverbs, quotes and sayings.
Author: Creedy - Diff: Harder

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      1. "No man can think clearly when his ___ are clenched"
      4. ___ your coat according to your cloth
      6. A ___ in May is worth a load of hay
      9. "___ greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
      10. It polished off Cleopatra (straight clue)
      11. Do not insult the crocodile until you've crossed the ___
      12. A mighty ___ from a little acorn grows
      13. "The newer people of this modern age are more eager to ___ than to realise"
      14. One must ___ in whichever boat one finds one's self
      15. In one ___ and out the other
      16. "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music ___?"
      19. "Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall"
      21. ___ dog has its day
      24. "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting ___"
      27. ___ swallow does not make a summer
      29. Rob ___ to pay Paul
      32. An egg and a ___ are both easily broken
      33. ___ whiz!
      34. ___ not, want not
      37. As crooked as a dog's hind ___
      39. Behind every ___ man, there is a ___ woman
      42. Absence ___ the heart grow fonder
      45. A ___ may look at a king
      47. ___ one's hair out by the roots
      50. ___ many cooks spoil the broth
      51. Town in far north east Queensland, Australia (straight clue)
      52. When once at sea, do not long to be on ___
      53. Keep ___ about it
      54. In the house of the just there are ___ resources
      55. "Inconstancy falls off ___ it begins"
      56. A town in the south of Netherlands (straight clue)
      57. The burglar ___ the joint
      58. Don't be ___ because it's over, smile because it happened
      59. Do not love ___ or you will grow poor

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      1. "Big ___ flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out"
      2. A penny ___ is a penny earned
      3. Better safe than ___
      4. Every cock ___ best on his own dunghill
      5. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, ___ at the flood, leads on to fortune"
      6. ___ the rod and spoil the child
      7. Hope is the dream of a man ___
      8. "A violet by a ___ stone, half hidden from the eye"
      17. "After ___, tomorrow is another day"
      18. "The ____ is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord"
      20. Pick your ___ before the dark
      22. 22nd letter of the English alphabet (straight clue)
      23. "And orphans for their parents timeless death, shall ___ the hour that ever thou wast born"
      24. "A true friend leaves ___ prints on your heart"
      25. A braying ___ eats little hay
      26. "And Adam called his wife's name ___, because she was the mother of all living"
      27. A wise old ___ sat on an oak, the more it saw, the less it spoke
      28. An ___ today is better than a hen tomorrow
      29. A square ___ in a round hole
      30. Shiny are ___ distant hills
      31. Like a ___ up a drainpipe
      35. Famous actress, ___ Gardner (straight clue)
      36. The old school ___
      38. "We live in the ___ of smart phones and stupid people"
      40. Fish eggs (straight clue)
      41. Build castles in the ___
      42. ___ has charms to soothe the savage beast
      43. He who ___, does not speak, he who speaks, ___ not
      44. The ___ does not retain its speed forever
      45. Everything ___ to those who wait
      46. Wild hearts cannot be ___
      47. Fly out of the ___
      48. An ___ a day keeps the doctor away
      49. If every man would ___ his own door-step the city would soon be clean