Flights of Fancy

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Someone who attacks in search of booty (7)
  2. 4. A formation of aircraft in ___ (6)
  3. 6. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  4. 8. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail (4)
  5. 10. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (plural) (11)
  6. 13. One of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope (8)
  7. 14. A movable organ for flying (plural) (5)
  8. 15. A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars (5)

Down

  1. 1. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural) (11)
  3. 5. Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight (6)
  4. 7. The movement of persons from one country or locality to another (9)
  5. 9. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes (3)
  6. 11. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (plural) (8)
  7. 12. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)