INTERESTS IN COMMON

ACROSS 1Spotted cavy

5Father: comb. form

10Carpet used as a wall hanging

15Examine

19OT book

20Homeric epic

21Soap plant

22Endured

23Flaccid

24Native intelligence

26Scottish uncles

27Minor second in music

29Serf

30Some theater productions

32Speechify

33Used an adhesive

351954 treaty org.

36Historical records

38Den

39Snakes

42Kind of velvet

43Unwritten rule based on custom

46Instruct

47Chimney accumulation

48Red dye

49Certain tanker

51Kill

52Flightless bird

53Arboretum specimens

54Traps

56Three: ital.

57Ominous

59Pay attention

60Mud flats, beaches: Sp.

62Was untruthful

63Duos

65Combat for two

66Concur

69Kind of ranch

70Quieted

74Hiss-___

75Realm

77Most recent

79Not closed, poetic

80Charity

82Hawkins or Thompson

83Egg-shaped

84So be it!

85Celestial body

87Ordinary people (as opposed to nobility)

89Gaseous exhalations

90Treats metal electrolytically

92Withered

93Knotty

94Lowest point

95Denounce as worthless

97Cell nucleus material

98Metal alloy

100Bristle

101Galloped

104Arrow poison

105Ordinary

109Word with ``book,'' ``case,'' or ``paper''

110Fuel

111Liquid fatty matter

112Stephen Vincent ___

113Highly successful move

114Supporter

115Salamanders

116Insolent, pert

117Send forth

DOWN

1Chums

2Female friend in Paris

3Kind of word

4Candidate

5Ornamental loops

6Solo

7Duration

8Butter

9Words of consent

10Demi___

11Improve

12Corn cake

13French pronoun

14Farm implement

15Cardigan and pullover

16Members of an incorporated body

17Space

18Monster's loch

25Nerve: comb. form

28Saga

31Engrossed

33Urchin

34Draws

35Conduit

36Church areas

37Ruth's motherin-law

38Unsuccessful contender

39Menu item

40Coronet

41Curved timbers in shipbuilding

43Contended, with success

44Snooper

45Striae

48Thinks highly of

50Turn back

53Stage whisper

55Frozen rain

58___ de France

59Hurry

61Northumberland river

63Jewish festival

64Revoke (legal term)

65Certain legislative assemblies

66Fiber plant

67Panama seaport

68The public welfare

69Antics

70Gaze fixedly

71General meeting place

72Foils

73Thick

76Horse of a special gait

77One who shuns companionship

78___ Island, Louisiana bird sanctuary

81In a calm, composed manner

84Spectators

86Tendency, drift

88Language replaced by Latin

89Stoup

91Semiprecious gemstone

93XC

95Resign

96Certain jackets

97Val, Cluny, et al.

98Type type

99Organic compound

100Merganser

101Food containers

102Needle case

103Division or section: abbr.

106Corrida cheer

107Television network

108Meadow