City Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (6)
  2. 5. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (plural) (4)
  3. 7. Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails (7)
  4. 8. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (plural) (5)
  5. 9. One of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope (8)
  6. 12. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (5)
  7. 13. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Black birds having a raucous call (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  3. 3. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  4. 4. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  5. 6. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural) (4)
  6. 8. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural) (5)
  7. 10. Someone who works during a strike (plural) (4)
  8. 11. Social insect living in organized colonies (plural) (4)