William

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars (5)
  2. 4. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  3. 10. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  4. 12. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  5. 13. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil (9)
  6. 15. A small amount of liquid food (7)
  7. 16. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (6)
  2. 2. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 5. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  4. 6. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  6. 8. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  7. 9. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  8. 11. Any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era (8)
  9. 14. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (4)