Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  2. 5. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  3. 6. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  4. 8. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  5. 10. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  6. 11. The fatty flesh of eel (plural) (4)
  7. 12. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  8. 13. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)
  9. 14. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  10. 15. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)

Down

  1. 1. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something (6)
  2. 3. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (7)
  3. 4. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)
  4. 7. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  5. 8. Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters (6)
  6. 9. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back (6)