Crocdilian Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (plural) (6)
  2. 5. Relating to the hot regions near the equator. (8)
  3. 6. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  4. 9. The act of grasping (6)
  5. 11. Relating to or characteristic of animals of the class ___ (10)
  6. 13. A young person, not fully developed (8)
  7. 14. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards (7)
  8. 15. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)

Down

  1. 1. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates (5)
  2. 2. An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge (6)
  3. 3. Any recently ___ animal (9)
  4. 4. Belonging to or active during the night (9)
  5. 7. At risk of becoming extinct. (10)
  6. 8. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  7. 10. Animal hunted or caught for food (4)
  8. 12. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)