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Zoo Animals crossword

Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.

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Zoo Animals12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Striped relative of the horse
  • 5 Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  • 6 Big orange cat with black stripes
  • 8 Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  • 12 Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  • 13 Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest
  • 14 Largest of the great apes
  • 15 Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  • 16 ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard

Down

  • 1 Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals
  • 2 Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  • 4 Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  • 7 Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  • 9 Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  • 10 Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  • 11 Playful swimmer that floats on its back

Print the page above, or take the easy grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

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Zoo Animals1KE2H3ZEBRAPB4PEI5MEERKATNAG6TIGERU7K8GIRAFFENN9C10FGA11O12ELEPHANTMTARE13SLOTHM14GORILLAEIO15RHINOG16KOMODO
  1. 1 down: KEEPER. Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals
  2. 2 down: HABITAT. Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  3. 3 across: ZEBRA. Striped relative of the horse
  4. 4 down: PENGUIN. Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  5. 5 across: MEERKAT. Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  6. 6 across: TIGER. Big orange cat with black stripes
  7. 7 down: KANGAROO. Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  8. 8 across: GIRAFFE. Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  9. 9 down: CAMEL. Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  10. 10 down: FLAMINGO. Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  11. 11 down: OTTER. Playful swimmer that floats on its back
  12. 12 across: ELEPHANT. Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  13. 13 across: SLOTH. Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest
  14. 14 across: GORILLA. Largest of the great apes
  15. 15 across: RHINO. Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  16. 16 across: KOMODO. ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard
Zoo Animals123456789101112131415

Across

  • 3 Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  • 5 Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  • 6 Playful swimmer that floats on its back
  • 8 Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  • 11 Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  • 12 ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard
  • 13 Big orange cat with black stripes
  • 14 Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  • 15 Striped relative of the horse

Down

  • 1 Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  • 2 Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  • 4 Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest
  • 7 Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  • 9 Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  • 10 Largest of the great apes
  • 12 Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals

Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Zoo Animals1ME2G3PENGUINRR4SK5HABITATLAF6OTTERF7KT8ELEPHANTHN9RG10GH11FLAMINGOIRRNOI12KOMODOLEL13TIGER14CAMELP15ZEBRAR
  1. 1 down: MEERKAT. Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  2. 2 down: GIRAFFE. Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  3. 3 across: PENGUIN. Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  4. 4 down: SLOTH. Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest
  5. 5 across: HABITAT. Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  6. 6 across: OTTER. Playful swimmer that floats on its back
  7. 7 down: KANGAROO. Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  8. 8 across: ELEPHANT. Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  9. 9 down: RHINO. Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  10. 10 down: GORILLA. Largest of the great apes
  11. 11 across: FLAMINGO. Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  12. 12 across: KOMODO. ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard
  13. 12 down: KEEPER. Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals
  14. 13 across: TIGER. Big orange cat with black stripes
  15. 14 across: CAMEL. Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  16. 15 across: ZEBRA. Striped relative of the horse
Zoo Animals12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  • 4 Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  • 7 Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  • 8 Big orange cat with black stripes
  • 9 Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  • 11 Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  • 13 Playful swimmer that floats on its back
  • 15 Largest of the great apes
  • 16 Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest

Down

  • 1 Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals
  • 2 Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  • 5 Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  • 6 Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  • 10 Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  • 12 Striped relative of the horse
  • 14 ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Zoo Animals1KE2H3CAMELAPBEI4MEER5KAT6GAA7RHINON8TIGERRGA9ELE10PHANTFER11FLAMINGO12ZEG13OTTER14KUB15GORILLARMNAOD16SLOTH
  1. 1 down: KEEPER. Staff member who feeds and cares for the animals
  2. 2 down: HABITAT. Enclosure designed to match where an animal lives in the wild
  3. 3 across: CAMEL. Humped desert animal that can go days without water
  4. 4 across: MEERKAT. Small mongoose relative that stands upright on lookout duty
  5. 5 down: KANGAROO. Australian hopper with a built-in pouch
  6. 6 down: GIRAFFE. Tallest animal, browsing leaves from treetops
  7. 7 across: RHINO. Thick-skinned beast known for its horn, for short
  8. 8 across: TIGER. Big orange cat with black stripes
  9. 9 across: ELEPHANT. Huge gray mammal with a long trunk and wide ears
  10. 10 down: PENGUIN. Flightless bird that looks like it wears a tuxedo
  11. 11 across: FLAMINGO. Pink wader that often rests on one leg
  12. 12 down: ZEBRA. Striped relative of the horse
  13. 13 across: OTTER. Playful swimmer that floats on its back
  14. 14 down: KOMODO. ___ dragon, the world's biggest lizard
  15. 15 across: GORILLA. Largest of the great apes
  16. 16 across: SLOTH. Slow-moving hanger-on of the rainforest

About Zoo Animals

Modern zoos do more than display animals: many run breeding programs for species that no longer survive well in the wild, and keepers spend much of the day on enrichment, hiding food or scattering scents so animals forage and problem-solve. The clues here cover residents from several continents, including the Komodo dragon of Indonesia and the meerkat, which takes turns standing sentry while the group digs. Habitat design matters too, since a good enclosure copies climate, terrain and climbing space.

Reach for this sheet before or after a class trip to the zoo, when students are naming what they saw.

What is in this crossword

An 18 by 19 crossword with 9 across and 7 down, on the subject of Zoo Animals.

Grid
18 x 19
Across
9
Down
7
Longest answer
KANGAROO (8 letters)

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