Penguins

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds (plural) (8)
  2. 5. To move through water (4)
  3. 7. Male ruler of a kingdom (4)
  4. 8. The color of snow (5)
  5. 9. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland (6)
  6. 10. Someone who attacks in search of booty (plural) (9)
  7. 11. A shoe for swimming (plural) (8)
  8. 15. The young of an animal cared for at one time (5)

Down

  1. 1. The color of coal (5)
  2. 2. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (plural) (8)
  3. 4. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body (5)
  4. 5. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (4)
  5. 6. Pasta in the form of slender tubes (8)
  6. 12. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  7. 13. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  8. 14. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)