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1) the definition for
ranarium

A divination by the movements
OCTOBER ANSWERS of mice
B a place where frogs are kept
Across: 8 Spirea, 9
anemones, 10 scut, C wool taken from a dead sheep
11 loganberry, 12 black-
backed gull, 16 edge, 2) the animal you associate
17 loons, 18 ausu, with the adjective phasianine
20 mountain wagtail,
22 weeping fig, 26 alga, A a pheasant
27 mouse-ear, 28 Indian. B a penguin
Down: 1 speckled, 2 Arctic
C a parrot
tern, 3 bay lobelia, 4 fang,
5 bean, 6 sole, 7 petrel, 3) the ofspring of
13 crown, 14 East Anglia,
15 giant panda, 19 an ostrich
stingray, 21 ocelot, 23
A a squeaker
puss, 24 neem, 25 fern.
B a chick
OCTOBER WINNER C a squab
D Jones Torfaen,Wales
4) the sound made
ACROSS 24 The woodpecker finch of the 7 Perennial plant in the knotweed by turkeys
1 ___ slider, species of turtle native to Galápagos Islands sometimes family, Rumex salicifolius (6, 4)
a Central American country (10) called the ___-using finch (4) 8 Long-legged wading bird with A a bock
6 Aquatic bird that might be mute, 25 Extinct mammal, once native nocturnal feeding habits – may be B a cackle
Bewick’s or whooper (4) to certain islands of Japan (6, 4) rufous or black-crowned (5, 5)
C a gobble
9 Wild cereal plant of the 26 Scottish island, home to breeding 10 Richard ___, author of the wildlife
Mediterranean, with narrow stems (7, 3) sea eagles (4) novel Watership Down (5) 5) the name for a
11 Soft-bodied garden gastropod (4) 27 The name for communities of 12 Flowers that are also known
13 Sure-footed climbing mammal of living organisms (10) as snapdragons (12) male aardvark
the North American uplands (8, 4) 14 Ancient arthropods that flourished
A a jack
16 Male of the deer species DOWN in the Lower Paleozoic era (10)
B a king
Capreolus capreolus (7) 1 Scottish loch, home to European 15 The study of trees and other
17 Sta vine species, also called wahoo, eel and Arctic char – but not a woody plants (10) C a boar
burning bush or wintercreeper (7) plesiosaur (4) 19 The excrement of birds – seabirds
18 US term for a spotted beetle in the 2 River in Somerset, rich in in particular (5) 6) the collective
family Coccinellidae (7) freshwater fish (4) 20 Process by which the cells noun for grouse
20 Country of north Africa, whose 3 Crimson wildflower of North of living things divide (7)
native animals include the Saharan America, Aquilegia formosa (3, 9) 22 Burrowing vermivore with A a covey
striped polecat and horseshoe 4 African antelope also known as powerful forelimbs (4) B a muster
whip snake (7) the gira e gazelle (7) 23 Newts (4) C a head
21 Solomon Islands’dull-coloured 5 The egg of a louse – this one’s a bit 25 Name for the bottle gourd,
songbird, Rhipidura drownei (5, 7) of a ‘head scratcher’ (3) Lagenaria vulgaris, in Polynesia (3) Questions setbyADAM JACOT DE BOINOD
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