Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (3)
  2. 4. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  3. 7. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (5)
  4. 9. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  5. 11. Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites (9)
  6. 12. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (3)
  7. 15. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  8. 16. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)

Down

  1. 2. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  2. 3. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  3. 5. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  4. 6. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  5. 8. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  6. 10. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  7. 13. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  8. 14. A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit (5)