Koala

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The act of brushing against while passing (7)
  2. 3. Mammals of which the females have a pouch containing the teats where the young are fed and carried (9)
  3. 5. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  4. 6. A vine or ___ plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants (7)
  5. 8. Norwegian painter (plural) (7)
  6. 10. The rattling noise produced when snoring (plural) (6)
  7. 11. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended (plural) (6)
  8. 13. Moving slowly and gently (4)

Down

  1. 2. Country and continent known for kangaroos (9)
  2. 4. Saclike structure in any of various animals (plural) (7)
  3. 6. Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure (6)
  4. 7. A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity (plural) (6)
  5. 8. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (6)
  6. 9. Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger (6)
  7. 10. To start suddenly, as from fright (3)
  8. 12. Not moving quickly (4)