Thirteen animal answers share this 11x11 grid, the third medium puzzle in the series. Familiar faces like the sheep counted at bedtime sit beside tougher spots: a bushy-tailed acorn collector, a soaring bird of prey, and a shaggy American plains buffalo. At medium difficulty the answers run longer and the clues ask for real recall, so it lands best with upper-elementary students, middle schoolers reviewing vocabulary, and families who argue happily about whether that raptor is a hawk or an eagle.
Use it to wrap up a habitats or adaptations unit, or print it for the bus ride home from the zoo. Print Puzzle outputs the blank grid with clues on Letter or A4 paper; Print Answer Key puts the solved grid on its own page for honest checking, and Save as PDF in the print dialog keeps a copy on your machine. The first two animal crosswords make a nice set with this one, and younger siblings can start with the easy animal grids in the printable crossword collection.
The answers live on their own page: press Print Answer Key above, or use View answer key to check the solved grid on screen without printing. Stuck on a single word? The answer key lists every across and down answer next to its clue.