Snakes-Slinky&Scaly

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism (6)
  2. 5. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (plural) (6)
  3. 7. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities (6)
  4. 8. Not having legs (7)
  5. 13. Something that ___ out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings (5)
  6. 14. The person who plays the position of ___ in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey (7)
  7. 15. The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short (5)
  8. 16. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (5)

Down

  1. 1. A line or route along which something travels or moves (plural) (6)
  2. 2. Any hostile group of people (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Covered with or resembling ___ (5)
  4. 6. A small amount of liquid food (7)
  5. 9. A state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest (7)
  6. 10. British politician (4)
  7. 11. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity (6)
  8. 12. The act of grasping (4)