Animals and Pets

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Quacking water bird (4)
  2. 3. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  3. 5. Domestic swine (3)
  4. 6. A range horse of the western United States (4)
  5. 8. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  6. 9. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (4)

Down

  1. 1. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump (4)
  2. 2. Informal terms for dogs (5)
  3. 4. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  4. 6. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  5. 7. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (4)