Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  2. 6. A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit (6)
  3. 9. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  4. 10. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  5. 11. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right (7)
  6. 12. Woolly farm animal that says baa (5)

Down

  1. 1. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  2. 2. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  3. 3. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil (9)
  4. 4. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  5. 7. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  6. 8. A very large person (5)
  7. 10. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  8. 11. Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae (4)
  9. 12. Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America (5)