Can you find the animal names???

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  2. 6. A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit (6)
  3. 7. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  4. 8. Young domestic cat (6)
  5. 10. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  6. 11. Long-eared animal related to the horse (6)
  7. 13. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  8. 14. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (5)
  9. 15. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  10. 16. A mammal with wings formed from its forelimbs. (3)

Down

  1. 2. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  2. 3. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  3. 4. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  4. 5. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)
  5. 9. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural) (5)
  6. 12. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat (5)