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CROSSWORD Win a prize with WILDWORDS
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Compiled by RICHARD SMYTH

Answers
in our
April 2018
issue

1) the definition for at hack
A taking wool from a dead sheep
DECEMBER ANSWERS B a hawk before it has become
Across: 1 Amoeba, 4 acclimatised and can hunt
Baobab, 8 Remoras, 9 on its own
Sunbeam, 11 Damask C employed marking
rose, 12 auks, 13 coati, 14 unsatisfactorily shorn sheep
Stallion, 16 Soya bean,
18 Silky, 20 Ashy, 21 2) the animal you associate
Quadrupeds, 23 Linseed, with the adjective dipterous
24 Alpines, 25 Lemons,
26 Ganges. A a fly Find out
Down: 1 Akepa, 2 Odonata, B a goldfinch the answers
3 Black kite, 5 Azure, 6 C a pheasant on p105
Bobtail, 7 Black lory, 10
Poison oak, 13 Crossbill, 3) the offspring of a cormorant
15 Australia, 17 Alyssum,
19 Lapwing, 21 Queen, A a keet
22 Dyer’s. B a shaglet
C a fledgling
DECEMBER WINNER
Ann Stainsby West Sussex 4) the sound made by bitterns
ACROSS mountains of South America (6) 6 Species of hammerhead shark, A a chirp
8 26 Old name for a white-tailed eagle Sphyrna tiburo (10) B a squeak
8 Term describing taiga (6)
9 River of Wensleydale, noted for or other sea eagle (4) 7 Eurasian plant well-known for its C a boom
plants such as thistle broomrape 27 Yellow-billed seabird, Larus canus, effects on felines (6)
and marsh cinquefoil (3) with greenish-yellow legs (6, 4) 14 Plant of East Asia also known as 5) the name for a female
10 Marwick ___, Orkney reserve (4) 30 Genus of trees and shrubs to Japanese spikenard (3)
11 Scavenging insect of the which the maple belongs (4) 15 North American shrub of the seahorse
Dermestidae family (4, 6) 31 Prefix meaning ‘environment’ that genus Viburnum (10) A a queen
1
12 Plant with long, trailing stems – a might come before -friendly (3) 19 Asian bird also known as the
B a seamare
member of the genus Vitis, perhaps (4) 32 The ___ river dolphin of South horned pheasant (8)
C a dam
13 Plant in the amaranth family, native America is also known as the boto (6) 20 Large, omnivorous parrot of New
to the Andes and widely cultivated (6) Zealand’s South Island (3)
1
16 Deer-like hoofed mammal of Africa DOWN 21Joy ___, conservationist and 6) the collective noun for
and Eurasia, such as the gazelle (8) 1 Sociable UK crow species (4) author of Born Free (7) iguanas
17 ___ chough, traditional name for 2 Flowerless plant that reproduces 23 2013 BBC natural history series Henny Brandsma/Minden Pictures/FLPA
A a mess
the red-billed corvid Pyrrhocorax from spores (4) narrated by David Attenborough (6)
B a tiding
pyrrhocorax (7) 3 Colourful, noisy corvids of North 24 Hampshire river known for water
4
C a huddle
18 The ___-headed seedeater is a America, Cyanocitta cristata (4, 4) vole, white-clawed crayfish and
sparrow-like finch of southern Africa (7) 4 brook lamprey (6) Questions set by ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD
4 Neotropical forest bird of the
8
22 Spotted beetle of the family trogon family (7) 28 Pacific island notoriously invaded
Coccinellidae (8) 5 5 The ___ locust is known its vast, by the brown tree snake (4)
5
25 The rare ___ flamingo is native to the voracious swarms (6) 29 Big cat, males have manes (4) COMPETITION WINNERS
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