If you’re “wild” about family fun, you will love this crossword that’s all about animals! You tackle the across clues while your mom, dad or other favorite grown-up figures out the down ones.


Kids Across
1. Animal that can be a little stinker

3. Animal that looks like a horse wearing stripes

6. What a dog does to cool off since it can't perspire (or what your belt holds up)

8. Crustacean with claws that crawls on the bottom of the ocean
10. A mouse's long-tailed cousin

12. Big jungle cats with a name that suggests they just don't play fair

14. Any warm-blooded animal that has hair (including you)

15. This mosquito-muncher is the only 14 Across that can fly (or what a baseball player swings before running home)

17. Tiny insect that really "bugs" a beagle

19. A young goat (or young person who solves the across clues of this puzzle)

20. Crocodile's toothy cousin

21. Busy builder in a pond whose front teeth never stop growing


Parents Down
1. African tourist's "wild" adventure

2. Marsupial mom from Down Under with a taste for eucalyptus

4. Big forest cat whose friends might call him Robert

5. Native continent of the cousin of an African elephant

7. Animal known for wearing a wool coat year round

9. Greyhound one can ride

11. Opposable digit that enables both man and primates to use tools

12. Blue whale's big baby

13. Just the animal to take to a picnic

14. Primate with a prehensile tail

15. Animal that can dig faster than a human with a shovel (or to persistently pester someone)

16. Reptile that finds some musicians "charming"

18. It can be home to a 15 Across and millions of others in its colony