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CROSSWORD Win a prize with our brain-teaser. Answers WILDWORDS
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January 2019
Compiledby RICHARD SMYTH issue

1) the definition for Arterra Picture Library/Alamy
magnanerie

A the sound of many birds
chirping together
SEPTEMBER ANSWERS B the art or place of rearing
Across: 6 Abelia, silkworms
8 Caucasus, 9 celeriac, C a heraldic animal turned to
10 ragged, 11 Indian roller, one side with its head facing
13 meadow, 15 teazel, the viewer
18 spotted crake,
21 scarab, 22 rose moss, 2) the animal you associate
23 Blakeney, 24 ringed. with the adjective sturnine
Down: 1 bluebird, 2 banian,
3 murrelet, 4 jaeger, A a starling
5 Buteo, 7 blennies, B a herring
8 cuckoo, 12 perkysue, C a squirrel
14 woodbine, 16 agrimony,
17 stormy, 18 shrike, 3) the ofspring of a mole
19 desert, 20 scaly.
A a pup
SEPTEMBER WINNER B a kit
M Gow Tyne and Wear C a cosset

ACROSS 24 Vegetables of the genus Allium feeds on fish, amphibians, eggs 4) the sound made
6 Small, noisy crow with grey crown (7) with long, broad stems (5) and carrion (6)
7 Yellow-flowered Eurasian shrub, also 26 Georg Wilhelm _____, an 18th- 7 Coyotes and jackals, for instance (4) by pigeons
called whin or woodwaxen (7) century scientist after whom an eider, 8 North ___, US state in which lies
A a chatter
9 Deciduous tree in the family sea eagle and sea cow were named (7) Theodore Roosevelt National Park (6)
B a caw
Betulaceae, related to hazels 27 Another name for the marbled 12 Lizard-like amphibian, such as
C a coo
and alders (5) tu et moth of North America (7) the olm or axolotl (10)
10 Nocturnal bird related to the 14 Californian flowering plant with
nightjar – could be short-tailed or DOWN pink petals, named after the clay in 5) the name for a
rufous-bellied (9) 1 Cli of exposed limestone that which it grows (5, 4) female alligator
11 The ___ tern, pale with a dark bill, may be home to nesting ravens or 16 Flying insect sometimes known as
A a cow
nests at RSPB Coquet Island (7) peregrines (4) daddy longlegs (5, 3)
B a sow
13 Colourful neotropical bird, related 2 Plant in the mustard family, named 17 Flowering plant from which sa ron
to the bee-eaters and kingfishers (6) after a US state (6) is derived (6) C a queen
15 Sooty-coloured chat, known for 3 North American shrub, also known as 18 The ___ fir is a native conifer of the
nesting in built-up areas (5, 8) bearberry honeysuckle, that produces Appalachian Mountains (6) 6) the collective noun
19 Fruit tree of Southeast Asia, pairs of dark-coloured fruits (9) 21 Forest bird of Africa and Asia – the for falcons
Baccaurea motleyana (6) 4 Anadromous or ocean-going form of collared finchbill or yellow-throated
20 Member of the Old World songbird the fish Salmo trutta (3, 5) leaflove, for example (6) A a convocation
family Timaliidae (7) 5 Butterfly whose black wings are 22 Ursine mammal (4) B a scold
23 Narrow-bodied predatory fish that patterned with orange and white (3, 7) 25 Genus of damselfly whose name is C a cast
may grow up to 3m in length (6, 3) 6 Large stork of South America that taken from Greek myth (4)
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