Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole (5)
  2. 5. A creature of Teutonic mythology (6)
  3. 7. Domestic swine (3)
  4. 8. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  5. 11. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  6. 12. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (4)
  7. 14. Half woman and half fish (7)
  8. 15. Long-eared animal related to the horse (6)

Down

  1. 1. Female of domestic cattle: "`moo-___' is a child's term" (3)
  2. 3. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  3. 4. An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead (7)
  4. 6. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  5. 8. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  6. 9. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (8)
  7. 10. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  8. 13. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body (5)