Fauna on Flora

Matt and Emma are trying to plant a tree, but they first have to replace all of some words - then all of certain letters - to see it grow.

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1	Article
4	Venetian official, or currency ticker
7	Poet Cummings
9	Machine part
12	Donkey
15	Jason who directed "Arthur"
17	Harvard institution known for arch. and art
18	Sentence structure common in modern Hebrew, abbr.
19	Silent assent
20	Greek mil. group of W.W. II
21	Ticker of one of the mag. seven
23	Prominent Chinese dissident
24	German paramilitary organization during W.W. II
26	"___ Doubtfire"
29	*Having depth
33	AL West team, on scoreboards
35	What you will make after solving this crossword
36	Say
37	†Bed size
39	Lentil dish
41	Bog down
42	Creative spark
45	Lennon's wife
47	Me and you
48	1982 science fiction film
49	A simple sugar
53	Take notice, abbr.
54	County prosecutor, briefly
57	Camera mode option, e.g. on iPhones
59	"Say it isn't so!"
60	Formatting lang.
62	Smoke, for short
63	Some car parts, abbr.
65	Desc. for a relay that conducts electricity by default
67	Strategy game with a 19x19 grid
68	Rating system used in zero-sum games
69	Type of checklist before surg., perhaps
71	Suffix for a parent
72	Commercials
74	*21% of the atmosphere
77	Dept. in charge of enforcing standards
78	Some lubricants
81	Flavor enhancer, for short
83	Hawaii, e.g., abbr.
85	Hard drive company, for short
87	†Togetherness
89	Call to a mate
91	*Space effect, briefly
93	It may be rigged
95	AA hub
97	Chinese company known for phones
100	Last letter in Leeds
102	British verb ending
103	†Chinese organized crime group, or the unclued of which in 35A order form what you seek overall
104	SW that manages computer HW
105	Superlative suffix
107	†Prefix with sexual
108	*2016 gaming console refresh
109	Letters on the tail of a Japanese plane
110	Trade show
111	Coloring agent

Down

1	"Wow!"
2	†2021 NCAA policy change subject
3	Smitten
4	French preposition
5	TLD for nonprofits
6	Component of Freud's psyche model
7	Alt. investment strategy considering nontraditional factors
8	Com. sex-related condition
9	Freight railway company in the eastern US
10	Roman poet
11	Aspirations
12	Small buffalo
13	Japanese noodles
14	Heliocentric NASA mission, abbr.
16	What good citizens do
22	Darn
25	Puzzle type to look for next
27	"Walkabout" director Nicolas
28	Toddler's mishap
30	Atomic symbol which doesn't share any letters with its element
31	Larger transit planning agency near Chi.
32	German article
34	Sahara Las Vegas, form.
38	Negative prefix
39	†Bottom of a suit
40	Half of A/V
43	French for "of the"
44	Early NATO alphabet letter
46	Out of date, abbr., or a streaming software
50	†___ Direction
51	†Red cup brand
52	Green prefix
55	Atomic symbol which doesn't share any letters with its element
56	Windows pred.
58	Nursing cert.
59	Orig.
61	It might be O(log(n))
64	Periodical, for short
66	Popular STEM major
70	Capitalist's goal
73	Needing assembly, for short
74	"good 4 u" singer Rodrigo
75	Common compressed Linux archive extension
76	"SmackDown!" org.
77	Quid pro ___
79	What a virus might cause cells to do
80	Mil. rank
81	Insane
82	Common scripting file extension
84	Flies like an eagle
86	Scientific research facility in B.C. Can. that performed the first astronomical observations using VLBI
88	Bugs Bunny adversary, for short
90	Warning sign
92	The original meme stk.
93	Japanese soup
94	IATA code for airport in Guilford County, NC
96	Dept. for computer help
98	B.C. neighbor
99	Mac platform
101	†Prefix with -chotomy
102	Component of Freud's psyche model
106	QB's goal
107	To one side

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