Green Creatures

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies (12)
  2. 8. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping (11)
  3. 11. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)
  4. 12. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  5. 13. A creature of Teutonic mythology (6)
  6. 14. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (4)
  2. 2. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions (6)
  3. 3. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  4. 4. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards (5)
  5. 5. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  6. 7. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)
  7. 9. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  8. 10. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)