Animals (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  2. 6. Domestic swine (3)
  3. 7. Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable (8)
  4. 9. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  5. 11. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  6. 12. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  2. 2. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  3. 3. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  4. 5. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  5. 7. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  6. 8. Social insect living in organized colonies (3)
  7. 9. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  8. 10. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  9. 13. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)