BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "name of 16 popes... especially...XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) 1927–2022 (pope 2005–13)" Crossword Clue

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BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "name of 16 popes... especially...XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) 1927–2022 (pope 2005–13)" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)
2. Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BIOGRAPHICAL (adjective)
1. of or relating to or being biography
ESPECIALLY (adverb)
1. to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
2. in a special manner

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12. 5-5 score, say

13. Underground stem

14. Flock comments

15. ADJECTIVE: "readily predictable"

17. NOUN: "a multipurpose enclosed motor vehicle having a boxlike shape, rear or side doors, and side panels often with windows"

18. NOUN: "disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due"

23. Time of day

24. ADJECTIVE: "desperately urgent"

25. NOUN: "any of a genus...of usually large deciduous north temperate-zone trees"

26. NOUN: "one that stands out for greatness of achievement"

27. NOUN: "a thick mass of hair"

28. NOUN: "an odor left by an animal on a surface passed over"

29. VERB: "to make a nosy or presumptuous inquiry"

30. PHRASE: "lost; bewildered"

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1. Monastery garment

2. In need of tightening, as a sentence

3. NOUN: "an earthy usually red or yellow and often impure iron ore used as a pigment"

4. PRONOUN: "[to or for] no matter which person"

5. NOUN: "an open-meshed fabric twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals"

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7. NOUN: "an open boat made of a wooden frame covered with hide used especially by indigenous peoples of arctic Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and eastern Siberia"

8. "The ___ have it" ("Motion passes")

16. VERB: "to become unworkable when a movable part becomes blocked or stuck"

18. Silver or gold, say

19. ADJECTIVE: "uneven and often crude in style"

20. Dark periods, casually

21. Long-legged bird

22. NOUN: "one that meddles"

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26. Org. seen at airports

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