Animals (4)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  2. 4. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants (7)
  3. 6. English essayist (4)
  4. 7. A long-tailed rodent, usually larger than a mouse. (3)
  5. 8. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)
  6. 10. Someone who attacks in search of booty (7)
  7. 13. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  8. 14. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  9. 15. A person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn (4)

Down

  1. 1. Small lynx of North America (6)
  2. 3. Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes (7)
  3. 5. Adult male chicken (7)
  4. 6. The largest or most massive thing of its kind (9)
  5. 9. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  6. 11. Large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere (8)
  7. 12. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)