Fun Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A small worthless amount (4)
  2. 3. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  3. 4. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body (5)
  4. 6. Any of various large ___ with limbs modified into flippers (9)
  5. 8. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  6. 9. A touch with the lips (plural) (6)
  7. 12. Coarse cloth with a bright print (6)
  8. 14. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  9. 15. Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle (4)

Down

  1. 1. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  2. 5. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  3. 6. Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable (8)
  4. 7. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  5. 10. A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (5)
  6. 11. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  7. 13. A cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black (5)