Animals (4)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  2. 4. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  3. 7. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)
  4. 10. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  5. 12. A very large person (5)
  6. 13. Small lynx of North America (6)

Down

  1. 1. Black birds having a raucous call (4)
  2. 2. Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains (7)
  3. 3. A long-tailed rodent, usually larger than a mouse. (3)
  4. 5. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  5. 6. Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish (7)
  6. 8. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)
  7. 9. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (4)
  8. 11. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)
  9. 14. A mammal with wings formed from its forelimbs. (3)