The House that was like a Zoo

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)
  2. 8. Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails (plural) (6)
  3. 10. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  4. 11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all (3)
  5. 13. Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air (10)
  6. 14. Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable (8)
  7. 15. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  8. 16. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion (5)

Down

  1. 2. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (7)
  2. 3. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  3. 4. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  4. 5. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  5. 6. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  6. 7. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  7. 9. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  8. 12. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)