Parrots Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck (4)
  2. 6. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment (6)
  3. 7. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people (4)
  4. 9. The joint between the cannon bone and the pastern (7)
  5. 12. The organ of sight (plural) (4)
  6. 13. A sharp bend in a road or river (5)
  7. 14. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  8. 15. A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal (5)
  9. 16. Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh (3)

Down

  1. 2. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus (5)
  2. 3. The time of the last part of something (4)
  3. 4. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (plural) (7)
  4. 5. An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial (4)
  5. 8. The part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist (7)
  6. 10. One of the supports for a piece of furniture (3)
  7. 11. The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks (5)