Complete Clue List
Across
1. Hot fragments; "...they saw a fire of burning ____ there..." [John 21:9] (5)
4. Expert in precious metals; "The metalworker encourages the ____..." [Isa 41:7] (9)
9. Phrase of commitment (1,2)
10. Sum; "...the ____ came to fifty thousand drachmas" [Acts 19:19] (5)
11. Like always; "Jesus went out ____ to the Mount of Olives", [Luke 22:39] (2,5)
12. Freely SAVED sacred Hindu text (anag., 5)
15. Reddish-brown metal; "...and ____ is smelted from ore." [Job 28:2] (6)
16. Food items (6)
19. Chemical change (8)
20. One beginning? (4)
22. Disappeared; "My relatives have ____ away; my closest friends have forgotten me." [Job 19:14] (4)
24. Symbol of biblical wrath, involving burning 34A (9)
25. Amount between none and all (4)
27. Biblical metal; "They sank like ____ in the mighty waters." [Exod 15:10] (4)
29. A CONCEIT about a common solvent used to remove nail polish (anag., 8)
32. Greek beginnings (6)
34. "Then the Lord rained down burning ____ on Sodom and Gomorrah" [Gen 19:24] (US spelling, 6)
35. Shakespeare: "Who is Silvia? what ____" (2,3) [from "Two Gentlemen of Verona]
37. Doze; "King of Assyria, your shepherds ____;" [Nahum 3:18] (7)
38. Femme fatale OR warning wail (5)
39. Skill; "...experienced in the ____ of engraving..." [2 Chr 2:7] (3)
40. Period of being with child; "In the sixth month of Elizabeth's ____..." [Luke 1:26] (9)
41. Church part traversed before 9A (5)
Down
1. Underground burial places in Ancient Rome (9)
2. Do something about (3,4)
3. The price of betrayal: "30 pieces of ____" [Matt 26:15] (6)
4. Valuable metal; "And make two cherubim out of hammered ____..." [Exod 25:18] (4)
5. Meadows (4)
6. Small apartment (6)
7. Bury, as ashes (5)
8. Assists; "In the same way, the Spirit ____ us in our weakness." [Rom 8:26] (5)
13. Religious recluses (8)
14. Forbears; "We tell you the good news: What God promised our ____ he has fulfilled" [Acts 13:32] (9)
16. HIS VIRGO extorted excessive interest; [Ezek 22:12] (anag., 8)
17. Messenger; "The ____ said to him, 'I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God'" [Luke 1:19] (5)
18. OT book between Ezekiel and Hosea, whose author encountered a den of lions (abbr., 3)
21. Belief in sorcery and magic (5)
23. Stamina; "This calls for patient ____ on the part of the people of God" [Rev 14:12] (9)
26. Unclean bird species including horned, screech, little, great, white and desert [Deut 14:15-17] (3)
28. Exertions; "I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my ____ on you." [Gal 4:11] (7)
30. Chemical element in: "As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire..." [Prov 26:21] (6)
31. CUTE AS muddled on Spanish hill (anag., 6)
32. Jesus' parables were similar to this Greek fabulist's stories (5)
33. Temporary halt (5)
35. Metal that rusts; "...who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and ____." [Gen 4:22] (4)
36. Bend in the wind; "[grain] on the tops of the hills may it ____." [Ps 72:16] (4)