The Fourth of July

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Across
  1. 4. passionate vehement
  2. 6. in accord with established conventions and requirements
  3. 9. a specific practice of long standing
  4. 12. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces
  5. 16. choose not to participate in something
  6. 18. a personal belief or judgment
  7. 20. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
  8. 21. freedom from control or influence of another or others
  9. 22. a ceremonial procession including people marching
  10. 23. a discussion with reasons for and against some proposal
  11. 26. a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  12. 30. without or seeming to be without plan or method
  13. 31. a joyful occasion for festivities to mark some happy event
  14. 33. giving assent
  15. 36. a period of 100 years
  16. 38. one who settles or establishes a settlement in a new region
  17. 39. occurring at the beginning
  18. 41. a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  19. 43. the legislature of the United States government
  20. 46. a person appointed or elected to represent others
  21. 47. varying or differing within limits
Down
  1. 1. significant past event
  2. 2. a special group delegated to consider some matter
  3. 3. assign a duty responsibility or obligation to
  4. 5. communicate beliefs or opinions
  5. 7. a formal proposal
  6. 8. approval support
  7. 10. preliminary piece of writing
  8. 11. show to be right by providing proof
  9. 13. a small book usually having a paper cover
  10. 14. the date on which an event occurred in some previous year
  11. 15. a choice made by counting people in favor of alternatives
  12. 17. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
  13. 19. markedly new or introducing radical change
  14. 24. carefully weighed
  15. 25. future
  16. 27. a group of representatives
  17. 28. any joyous diversion
  18. 29. a state of deep-seated ill-will
  19. 32. far beyond the norm
  20. 34. in accord with established conventions and requirements
  21. 35. greatest extent total
  22. 37. acknowledge a significant happy event
  23. 40. hold back to a later time
  24. 42. of a government with central and regional authorities
  25. 44. a group of people from one country living in a foreign place
  26. 45. formally approve or accept something