Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (3)
  2. 5. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 7. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  4. 9. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  5. 13. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  6. 14. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)
  7. 15. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)

Down

  1. 1. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  2. 3. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  3. 4. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  4. 5. A person who is born while the sun is in ___ (8)
  5. 6. White ___ of Arctic regions (9)
  6. 8. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  7. 10. Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer (5)
  8. 11. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  9. 12. Long-eared animal that hops (6)