Across
1. **”The Songbird Supreme” Carey
7. **”Lady Sings the Blues” singer Diana
11. **Beyonce’s “To do” list, perhaps
12. **Michael Jackson hit “___ it”)
13. Uno plus uno
14. ST, _ _ WX
15. **Turner of “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
16. Loses color
19. **Singer/actor Sammy Davis, _ _
20. Deputy
22. Magic charm
25. Church group
26. **”Till we stand at ___ ,” [L]
28. **Bluesman Redding
30. Sprayed, in self-defense
31. **_ittle _ichard of “Tutti Frutti”
32. Online loan source
34. Hymn “Rock of ___”
37. **Singer Al Green’s home state (abbr.)
38. **”Resound loud as the rolling __,” [L]
41. *World’s longest river
42. Crescent-shaped
44. **Belafonte’s “The Banana Boat” song
45. Told stories
Down
1. “Therefore the nations went ___” (Jeremiah 51:7)
2. “Give it ___!”
3. **Aretha Franklin classic
4. **”Keep us forever __ the path,” [L]
5. Over 21
6. **”___ not our weary feet,” [L]
7. Robotic (abbr.)
8. H_ _ _NG (garden work)
9. **”Do you know the way to __ __?” (Dionne Warwick
song)
10. “Geam of our __ is cast” [L]
17. Foe
18. Set Mode (abbr.)
20. **Song: “__ Times Goes By”
21. **Ray Charles classic “___ on my Mind”
23. **Tenor R_ _ _ _ D Hayes (“Deep River”)
24. **Mahalia, Janet or Jermaine
27. *Preacher/author _ _ Jakes
29. Direction: opposite of NW
30. **Marian Anderson classic (“Ave __”)
31. **”True to our native ___” [L]
33. **Eartha Kitt (“Santa ___”)
35. Nevada city
36. Southeast Oregon (initials)
39. Before
40. *Forty acres __ a mule (promise to freed slaves:
Juneteenth 1865)
43. *Comic Rock’s monogram
____
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