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How To Build Your Own Cathedral

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In this kind of arch, the keystones are only one third of the key stones; figuring out what to put on the stained glass below each arch will require you to discover the proper relation between stone and stains.

Clockwise

  • Small bit of gum (7)
  • Perished (4)
  • Subset of the stars in either celestial bear (6)
  • Omit (5)
  • Happening (5)
  • Caesar's moon (4)
  • Average (4)
  • Set of aha-challenging spoken questions (4)
  • Final syllables (7)

Counterclockwise

  • One of a pair of measurement devices (7)
  • Surrounded by haze (7)
  • Like Zeno of Zeno's Paradox (5)
  • Throw (4)
  • the ground floor (2 2)
  • Like the halls of academia (5)
  • They're mins prominent among math results (6)
  • Enclosed (4)
  • Effect proportional to the inverse cube of distance (4)

Clockwise

  • Detest (5)
  • Modifies the text of (5)
  • Support for a fish's flipper (3 3)
  • Eater of Doozer sticks (7)
  • Travels (4)
  • Observe (4)
  • Without additional iterations (3-4)
  • Chaplin of Game of Thrones (4)
  • What the lats do (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Stratovolcano in Sicily (4)
  • Bargain (6)
  • Or, to put things another way (2 3)
  • Phthirapteran eggs (4)
  • Queen of Jordan until 1999 (4)
  • Reed instruments (5)
  • Available for purchase (2 5)
  • Of the same ashen hue as the ocean (3 4)
  • Deity drawn at the speed of the gaits (4)

Clockwise

  • Cause to be ashamed (5)
  • School in Berkshire (4)
  • Like the wealth of the arms (4)
  • Yet (7)
  • With a family tree that overlaps itself (6)
  • Exceedingly (2 3)
  • Nonacceptance (7)
  • Cross (4)
  • Clothing line (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Become curved (4)
  • Type of lithography using cathode rays (1-4)
  • Didn't disintegrate suns (7)
  • Fish that can be red when cured (7)
  • "I'm into Something Good" singer (5)
  • Relatives of the Iowa (4)
  • Hasty (4)
  • One with a feudal obligation to a lord (6)
  • Comment from man's best friend (4)

Clockwise

  • Rhyme scheme of "Jabberwocky" (4)
  • Bioinformatics tool (2-5)
  • Chamber with computers (2 4)
  • When electromagnetic radiation is detected (2 5)
  • Cheri of Saturday Night Live (5)
  • One stands before the queen (4)
  • Annoyance (4)
  • Wigs (5)
  • "I am disgusted by this" (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Overtake (2 4)
  • Check for Teller's barn? (1-4)
  • Like many springtime flowers (2 5)
  • Arrests (4)
  • Inability to transmit light (7)
  • What may mesh with a pinion (4)
  • Clean, as a deck (4)
  • Garr of Young Frankenstein (4)
  • Pickup, for example (5)

Clockwise

  • Gall (4)
  • Barms (5)
  • Completely tucker out (7)
  • Like some individual facial hairs, sometimes (7)
  • House of sticks (4)
  • Sty cry (4)
  • Sequel to Typee (4)
  • Wagnerian gold source (5)
  • Asserted (6)

Counterclockwise

  • Queensland clock setting all year round (4)
  • "Jiminy Cricket!" (4)
  • Author of Exit the King (7)
  • Inverted six (4)
  • Ariz. neighbor (1 3)
  • Words following a wagon's target location (2 4)
  • Exhibited non-zero angular momentum (7)
  • Find uses for noodles (5)
  • Alan takes one for a redwood (5)

Clockwise

  • breve (with the beat on the half note) (4)
  • Sound reduplicated by trains (4)
  • Places to concoct your criminal lists (4)
  • Forerunner of Jonah (7)
  • Stratovolcano in Kamchatka (5)
  • Worship of Horus's father (7)
  • Former Unilever CEO Paul (6)
  • Set of connected rooms (5)
  • 18th-century CuraƧaoan rebellion leader (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Pen name of Ida B. Wells (4)
  • Forerunner of Jeremiah (6)
  • Land (2 2)
  • Wee arachnid (4)
  • Creature with eight legs (7)
  • Starts the betting (5)
  • Smash Mouth song about a driver hoping to pull in air (4 3)
  • -Niggurath (spouse of Yog-Sothoth) (4)
  • Victor at Orchomenus (5)

Clockwise

  • Use terms ruder than "dang" and "shoot" (4)
  • Volunteer's statement (1 3)
  • And (4)
  • End of many a psalm (5)
  • Least far in the future (7)
  • Bricklayer's tools (7)
  • Cheerful (6)
  • City for which a fortified wine is named (5)
  • Gen (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Pedestrian (4)
  • Is outstanding (6)
  • Easy on the hails (2 5)
  • Extraordinary individual, in the UK (4)
  • Other in Oaxaca (4)
  • Praline ingredient (5)
  • Creator of the Sneeches (5)
  • Predecessor of Pope Telesphorus (6 1)
  • In Paris, to a great extent (4)

Clockwise

  • Vaporous fuel (3 3)
  • Gigayears (4)
  • Revs (4)
  • Sending forth (7)
  • Most appetizing to Jack Sprat (7)
  • Seasonal songs (5)
  • Rig (4)
  • Edible ruminant innards (5)
  • Wit and similar groups (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Coalesces (4)
  • Treat like mats (6)
  • They solder and curl (5)
  • Comment made near a visit's end (2'1 4)
  • Terms for persons, places, and things (5)
  • No longer green (4)
  • Brave New World drug (4)
  • Pea (4')
  • Causing to fill the role of (5 2)

Clockwise

  • Was not at all well (5)
  • Lied (3 4)
  • ^ (7)
  • Television award (4)
  • Cake decorator (4)
  • Babe (6)
  • Pieces of bread the Italians got us (4)
  • Feast a month before Passover (5)
  • Non-singing Frozen character (4)

Counterclockwise

  • Keys and Silverstone (7)
  • Quickly left the scene (4)
  • Gloomy (4)
  • Actor in The Pink Panther and The Moon is Blue (5)
  • Delicious, slangily (5)
  • Cluster of genes (6)
  • Made of money (4)
  • Stable magus, say (7)
  • Ash, for example (4)

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First of nine grids shaped like arch-topped cathedral windows; the following eight are the same

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