FAUNAE BUSINESS

Difficulty: HardGrid: 21x21140 clues~30-60 minBy Nancy Nicholson Joline10/9/1988

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across: Ornamental stud (5 letters)
6 Across: Betel palm (5 letters)
11 Across: Designates (4 letters)
15 Across: Painter Benjamin (4 letters)
19 Across: More cunning (5 letters)
20 Across: Ancient Greek populace (5 letters)
21 Across: Willow (4 letters)
22 Across: First Chinese dynasty (4 letters)
23 Across: A work by barnyard collaborators? (16 letters)
26 Across: Agenda component (4 letters)
27 Across: Pay dirt (3 letters)
28 Across: City in S France (4 letters)
29 Across: Giraffe's kin (5 letters)
30 Across: Suffragist Lucy (5 letters)
31 Across: King Mark's castle (8 letters)
34 Across: Female swan (3 letters)
35 Across: Steno's need (7 letters)
37 Across: Strut (6 letters)
38 Across: Apian darners? (10 letters)
40 Across: Melampus, for one (4 letters)
41 Across: Sheet of stamps (4 letters)
44 Across: ___ Paulo, Brazil (3 letters)
45 Across: Manor or tutor ending (3 letters)
46 Across: Nicaraguan rebel (6 letters)
48 Across: Keeps in office (8 letters)
53 Across: In a frenzied state (4 letters)
57 Across: Leftist clupeids? (11 letters)
60 Across: Exclamation of relief (4 letters)
61 Across: Greediness (8 letters)
63 Across: A main street in Roma (5 letters)
64 Across: Kipling's ___ Khan (5 letters)
65 Across: Portable lodge of a certain shape (5 letters)
66 Across: Famed conductor (5 letters)
68 Across: ___ show (spectacle) (5 letters)
69 Across: Wheel spokes (5 letters)
70 Across: Flower stalk (5 letters)
72 Across: Pyromaniac (8 letters)
75 Across: ___ code (4 letters)
76 Across: Lagomorph from Llangollen? (11 letters)
79 Across: Congou and hyson (4 letters)
80 Across: Glass gardens (8 letters)
82 Across: "Two ___ People," 1938 tune (6 letters)
83 Across: " . . . ___ of little faith?": Matt. 8:26 (3 letters)
84 Across: Some hosts, for short (3 letters)
87 Across: Grouts (4 letters)
88 Across: Poem by Byron (4 letters)
92 Across: Equine political demand? (10 letters)
95 Across: Howard and Russell (6 letters)
97 Across: Long-legged shorebirds (7 letters)
99 Across: Joplin work (3 letters)
100 Across: Callas's style of singing (8 letters)
102 Across: A king of Crete (5 letters)
103 Across: Disagreeable task (5 letters)
105 Across: ___ Nostra (4 letters)
106 Across: Twitching (3 letters)
107 Across: N.L. batting champ: 1966 (4 letters)
108 Across: Canine dental visit? (16 letters)
112 Across: Stigma (4 letters)
113 Across: Entreat (4 letters)
114 Across: Stale (5 letters)
115 Across: "Ici on ___ français" (5 letters)
116 Across: Spanish painter (4 letters)
117 Across: Editor's notation (4 letters)
118 Across: Follower of sixth (5 letters)
119 Across: Ledger item (5 letters)

Down

1 Down: Some neckwear (6 letters)
2 Down: Nimbi (7 letters)
3 Down: Freedom (7 letters)
4 Down: "___ and Meek," comic strip (3 letters)
5 Down: Refrain syllable (3 letters)
6 Down: Confound (5 letters)
7 Down: Shays or Tyler (5 letters)
8 Down: Cassowaries' cousins (4 letters)
9 Down: Mountain pass (3 letters)
10 Down: Slanting (6 letters)
11 Down: Oberon's spouse (7 letters)
12 Down: On a pinnacle (4 letters)
13 Down: Vitus ___, Danish navigator (6 letters)
14 Down: Affirmation (3 letters)
15 Down: Plastered pachyderm? (13 letters)
16 Down: Bars, legally (6 letters)
17 Down: Home of St. Catherine (5 letters)
18 Down: Emulated Petruchio (5 letters)
24 Down: Former Hungarian prime minister (4 letters)
25 Down: Twists (5 letters)
30 Down: Bargain (5 letters)
32 Down: Tea, in Tours (3 letters)
33 Down: Rhine feeder (3 letters)
36 Down: Some of Tony's kin (5 letters)
38 Down: Withered (4 letters)
39 Down: Norse Fates (5 letters)
41 Down: Wilbur or Merrill (4 letters)
42 Down: Judge Hardy's offspring (4 letters)
43 Down: Utmost (3 letters)
46 Down: Dernier ___ (3 letters)
47 Down: Toxophilites (7 letters)
49 Down: Kind of trip (3 letters)
50 Down: Marilyn's "Bus Stop" role (6 letters)
51 Down: Opera's Stratas (6 letters)
52 Down: Bonbons (6 letters)
53 Down: Ark's landfall (6 letters)
54 Down: Actor once called The Hunk (6 letters)
55 Down: Kitchen item (6 letters)
56 Down: Marsupial motel? (13 letters)
58 Down: Deteriorate (3 letters)
59 Down: Author Levin (3 letters)
62 Down: Parts of dols. (3 letters)
64 Down: Hit-show warning (3 letters)
66 Down: Joad and Kettle (3 letters)
67 Down: Williams athlete (3 letters)
70 Down: A whale (3 letters)
71 Down: Hold tightly (5 letters)
72 Down: Incite (4 letters)
73 Down: Saws with the grain (4 letters)
74 Down: Hampshire's home (3 letters)
76 Down: Snatch forcibly (5 letters)
77 Down: Indonesian island (4 letters)
78 Down: "___ Clown," Porter tune (3 letters)
81 Down: A Dr. Kildare portrayer (5 letters)
85 Down: Diadem for Di (7 letters)
86 Down: Turf (5 letters)
88 Down: Fond du ___, Wis. (3 letters)
89 Down: Alias (3 letters)
90 Down: Tenants (7 letters)
91 Down: A, e.g. (7 letters)
92 Down: Integrity, English style (6 letters)
93 Down: Accompany (6 letters)
94 Down: Rids the body of (6 letters)
95 Down: Mediocre (4 letters)
96 Down: Concavity of a joint (6 letters)
97 Down: Accumulate (5 letters)
98 Down: Dulls ender (5 letters)
100 Down: Kipling poem (5 letters)
101 Down: A Lauder (5 letters)
104 Down: Vast (4 letters)
105 Down: Soldo or solidus (4 letters)
108 Down: Bohemian martyr (3 letters)
109 Down: Due follower (3 letters)
110 Down: He checks the bks. (3 letters)
111 Down: Expressions of surprise (3 letters)

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