Meerkat

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A party of people assembled to promote ___ and communal activity (6)
  2. 4. A hole made by an animal, usually for shelter (plural) (7)
  3. 7. A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force (11)
  4. 9. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (6)

Down

  1. 2. Continent with the Sahara desert (6)
  2. 3. Agile grizzled Old World viverrine (8)
  3. 4. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants (4)
  4. 5. A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes (7)
  5. 6. Group of people related by blood or marriage (4)
  6. 8. The site of an archeological exploration (3)