Puzzle 9: King Herod's Plot
Across
- 1. The innocent victims of Herod's cruel plot (8)
- 4. The path the Magi took home (7)
- 8. The scholars who pointed Herod to the prophet Micah (7)
- 9. The age, in years, and under that Herod targeted (3)
- 11. The city where the Wise Men first reported the star (9)
- 15. The crime committed under Herod's command (6)
- 16. The messenger who told Joseph to flee (5)
- 18. The nature of Herod's request for the Magi to return to him (6)
- 19. The father of Jesus who was also warned in a dream (6)
- 20. The type of warning received by Joseph and the Magi (6)
- 21. The small town where the Messiah was prophesied to be born (9)
Down
- 2. Joseph and his family would eventually do this after Herod died (6)
- 3. The brutal act Herod committed against the male children (9)
- 5. The religious leaders Herod consulted about the birthplace prophecy (12)
- 6. Herod pretended that he too wanted to do this to the infant King (7)
- 7. The intense emotion Herod felt when the Magi failed to return (4)
- 10. The quality completely lacking in Herod's intentions (10)
- 12. The foreign country the Holy Family fled to for safety (5)
- 13. The people Herod secretly questioned about the star's timing (4)
- 14. The King who was greatly troubled by the news of a new King (5)
- 17. The place mentioned in Jeremiah where lamentation was heard (5)
- 18. The supernatural way the Magi were warned not to return to the King (5)