CHICKENS and DUCKS

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A statute in draft before it becomes law (4)
  2. 7. Apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat (9)
  3. 8. Female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster (3)
  4. 9. Energy that makes things warm (4)
  5. 11. Horny projecting mouth of a bird (4)
  6. 12. Quacking water bird (4)
  7. 13. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  8. 15. Adult male chicken (7)

Down

  1. 1. Young bird especially of domestic fowl (5)
  2. 3. What lets us see; the opposite of dark (5)
  3. 4. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who (5)
  4. 5. A movable organ for flying (plural) (5)
  5. 6. Wetness caused by water (8)
  6. 10. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (7)
  7. 14. Black birds having a raucous call (4)
  8. 16. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)