Gorillas

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Extensive tract of level open land (plural) (6)
  2. 4. Parents, children and relatives who belong together (6)
  3. 5. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants (4)
  4. 6. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
  5. 8. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  6. 10. Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail (plural) (7)
  7. 11. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  8. 14. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree (8)
  9. 15. Having a ___ physiological or chemical effect (6)

Down

  1. 1. At risk of becoming extinct. (10)
  2. 2. Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails (plural) (6)
  3. 5. The color of coal (5)
  4. 7. Clothing that is a grey color (4)
  5. 9. The hard woody stems of ___ plants (6)
  6. 12. The color of chocolate (5)
  7. 13. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)