Something Fishy

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States (7)
  2. 8. A larval frog or toad (7)
  3. 9. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (8)
  4. 10. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water (4)
  5. 11. A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals (8)
  6. 15. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  7. 16. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)

Down

  1. 1. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (plural) (6)
  2. 2. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  3. 3. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  4. 4. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one (3)
  5. 5. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  6. 7. Any of various large ___ with limbs modified into flippers (9)
  7. 12. Huge body of salt water (5)
  8. 13. To move through water (4)
  9. 14. Unfertilized lobster roe (5)