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Common Core alignment to a Crossword puzzle is to three key phrases:
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Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c
Spell Correctly: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: L.2.2d+e, L.3.2e+f, L.4.2d, L.5.2d, L.6.2b, L.7.2b, L.8.2c, L.9-10.2c, L.11-12.2b
Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4

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ACROSS:

# 3 - system or set of moral principles; rules of conduct
# 7 - an office or position assigned officially; engagement
# 9 - voters in a district represented by an elected official
# 10 - false profession of desirable or publicly approved qualities; pretense of having virtues
# 12 - oneness; a whole or totality; absence of diversity
# 13 - to try to influence the actions or votes of public officials in legislative or administrative decision
# 16 - a male child in relation to his parents (expression: "favorite ____")
# 17 - to appoint or propose for a duty or office
# 20 - work of little or no value done merely to look busy
# 24 - skill or eloquence in public speaking
# 27 - the dividing of a state into election districts to give one political party a majority
# 31 - first name of Democratic presidential nominee for 2000 election
# 32 - general erudition; acquaintance with facts, truths or principles
# 35 - preliminary election; first in rank or importance
# 36 - maneuvers for gaining advantage or success
# 37 - person who has failed significantly at something
# 38 - gained by association with another (expression: "riding the ______")
# 39 - to act in response to an agent, influence or stimulus
# 40 - the points, matters or disputes in question

DOWN:

# 1 - systematic course of aggressive activities for a specific purpose
# 2 - currently holding an indicated office
# 4 - a meeting of the members of a political party
# 5 - a formally drawn request (noun); to make an entreaty or request (verb)
# 6 - manner of conducting oneself
# 8 - preposition used to express direction or motion
# 11 - a specific district or area
# 14 - precedence or status obtained due to length of service
# 15 - to take out or pull back; to remove; to retreat
# 18 - pertaining to judgment in courts of justice
# 19 - person who signifies a choice upon casting a ballot; elector
# 21 - bitter quarrel or contention; argument
# 22 - number of members of a group required to be present to transact business (majority)
# 23 - branch of government having the power to make laws
# 25 - acts of disclosing or making known
# 26 - strange, unfamiliar; not within range of knowledge; not discovered
# 28 - civil officer charged with administration of the law; minor judicial officer (e.g. justice of the peace)
# 29 - person whose occupation is the taking of public samplings or opinions
# 30 - pertaining to persons who select or choose by vote
# 33 - person designated to represent others at a political convention
# 34 - where a voter marks his or her vote