Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  2. 8. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  3. 11. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (4)
  4. 13. Predatory black-and-white toothed ___ with large dorsal fin (11)
  5. 14. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)
  6. 16. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)

Down

  1. 1. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)
  2. 2. Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable (8)
  3. 3. Largest mammal ever known (9)
  4. 4. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  5. 5. A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (6)
  6. 7. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  7. 9. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  8. 10. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (6)
  9. 12. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  10. 15. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)