Find the Characters

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (5)
  2. 3. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (9)
  3. 5. An adult female of domestic cattle. (3)
  4. 6. Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States (6)
  5. 9. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back (6)
  6. 11. Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer (5)
  7. 13. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking (5)
  8. 14. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)

Down

  1. 2. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  2. 4. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  3. 7. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  4. 8. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  5. 10. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (4)
  6. 11. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)
  7. 12. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  8. 15. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)