Animals without fur

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  2. 3. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  3. 5. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America (7)
  4. 6. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  5. 7. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  6. 8. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  7. 9. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  8. 12. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (4)
  9. 13. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  10. 14. A very large person (5)
  11. 15. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body (5)

Down

  1. 2. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  2. 4. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a ___ (9)
  3. 5. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions (6)
  4. 10. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)
  5. 11. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)