Porcupie Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal (plural) (10)
  2. 5. Colorful blooms that grow on plants (7)
  3. 7. Small lynx of North America (plural) (7)
  4. 8. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants (4)
  5. 9. Pen made from a bird's feather (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (9)
  2. 2. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
  3. 3. Involving or causing ___ or risk (9)
  4. 6. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (plural) (6)