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Compiled by RICHARD SMYTH

Answers
in our
June 2018
issue

1) the definition for
bdellatomy
A the gobbling of a turkey
MARCH ANSWERS
B the working themselves
Across: 9 Aconite, 10
Anemone, 11 Leveret, 12 forward of bees in flight
C the act of cutting a sucking
October, 13 Rosary Pea,
15 Eared, 16 Chigger, 19 leech to increase its suction
Mitosis, 20 Comet, 21
Rock Pipit, 25 Narwhal, 2) the animal you associate
26 Cabbage, 28 Teazles, with the adjective otarine
29 Laurels.
A a wolf
Down: 1 Tailor, 2 Corvus,
3 Pier, 4 Redtop, 5 Sago B an otter
Palm, 6 Feathertop, 7 C a sealion
Cowbirds, 8 Hebrides, 14
Right Whale, 16 Coconuts, 3) the ofspring of a goat
17 Immortal, 18 Ruralism, Find out
22 Cockle, 24 Tsetse, A a colt the answers
27/23 Blue Planet. B a keet on p106
C a kid
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Fiona Jones Gwent 4) the sound made by
peacocks
ACROSS 24 Cereal grain native to North and4 6 Small fruit tree,widespread in the
1 1 Songbird; mistle or song (6) SouthAmerica (5) Mediterranean region (5) A a squawk
f
4 4 Island of Pembrokeshire,noted for 26 Social insect (3) 7 7African desert mammal,related to
B a scream
7
its seabird populations (8) 27 Flowering legume,Lathyrus aphaca, the mongoose (7)
C a screech
9 Substance produced by some sometimes regarded as a weed (6,3) 8Waterbird that might be western,grey-
8
molluscs,known as mother-of-pearl (5) 28 Rusty red canid of central and headed or black-backed (8)
10 Bear-like mustelid of the forest (9) southernAsia (5) 13 Country in which Grassholm nature 5) the name for a male gerbil
11 Fluid that transports nutrients 29 Eurasian wild onion with an egg- reserve can be found (5) or hamster
through a plant or tree (3) shaped bulb (4,4) 15The ___ heron may be black-crowned 5
A a buck
12VenomousAfrican snake of the 30Tall-stemmed flowering plants often or white-eared (5)
B a boomer
7
genus Dendroaspis (5) known as‘flags’(6) 17 Island group ofTanzania,home f
C a billy
13 Carnivorous sea-snail belonging to to red colobus and genet (8)
the family Buccinidae (5) DOWN 18 Producing young by means8
14 Deciduous tree whose leaves are 1Addax and dama gazelle have of eggs (9) 6) the collective noun for bats
4
often known to quiver or tremble (5) been reintroduced in this North 19 Nocturnal grub-eating lemurs (3-4)
A a rabble
16 Plant of temperate Europe; known as African country (7) 21 Bony structures grown from the skulls James Hager/Robert Hard ng/Getty
B a fall
wild ginger or wild spikenard (9) 2 Lark-like songbird,Anthus petrosus, of male deer (and female caribou) (7)
19 Flowering member of the buckwheat that frequents rocky shores (4,5) 23Aplant of the family Cucurbitaceae C a colony
family with bell-shaped flowers (9) 3The ___ whale is the largest of the with fleshy edible fruit (5) Questions set by ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD
20 Rare antelope of the steppe,found toothed whales (5) 24 Deciduous tree of the genus Acer (5)
4
5
chiefly in Russia and Kazakhstan (5) 5 5The archipelago of St ___ is known 25 Common flowering tree with bunches COMPETITION WINNERS
of purple-black berries (5)
22 Old name for a 26 Across (5) for its huge gannet colony (5) of purple black berries (5) Big Cats DVD giveaway: Tara Murray (Aberdeen),
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