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Cryptic Animals Crossword Puzzle

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A cryptic crossword. Many of the answers are animal names. American-style cryptic clues. A couple of variant spellings are indicated with (var) Abbreviations are indicated with (abbrev.)
Author: crisw - Diff: Harder

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      Across
      1. Small hound bites head off of bat and bird of prey
      5. Sounds like I recognized a Japanese tribe
      9. In a person, I see a primate
      10. Alpine mammal to deface front of motel
      12. Inside, I attest, is a trial
      14. South American monkey? Sounds like you, with a false name, came before Rhode Island
      15. I hear spirit in the capital of Korea
      17. I mixed opium, Anne, for a respiratory disease
      21. Aghast, at first, at shortened college farm class (abbrev.)
      23. I exist in a yam
      24. Sore about love
      25. Indian birds? I hear cow and cattle!
      26. Sounds like sad German question word.
      27. Oh, I , at first, was a Yiddish complaint! (var)
      28. First half of oral alternate
      29. Inside, I was able to find a large weasel
      32. The head of a nation of animals is a wild ox
      35. I hear it's genuine Spanish currency!
      36. Take it easy? Oh no- first strain of Ebola virus!
      38. It really took some leaders to get a Japanese telescope project. (abbrev.)
      39. Smear is bad, bad!
      40. Led like wild shorebird. (var)

      Down

      1. Thrust at wild vampires
      2. Lime peel contains weapon
      3. I oppose a retreat, in part, for storyteller.
      4. The museum exhibits a flightless bird
      5. Vessel is dark without a captain
      6. What the Floridian claimed? "Sad rainbows dim."
      7. Not endless sushi seaweed!
      8. Caution lost on wild New York city.
      11. Typle of lava favored by reformed alcoholics?
      13. Confused about tan fishing vessel
      16. In a vile, murky forest, I spot a primitive primate
      18. Dirty ship's eating area
      19. Sounds like source of gold alternative
      20. To make someone lonely, mix tea, soil
      21. On top of a piece of lumber?
      22. One pound and one shilling for African fowl?
      30. Liar chopped up seed cover
      31. Less mixed-up, different
      33. First of old stores built with type of plywood (abbrev.)
      34. An iris conceals a small cuckoo
      37. Initially off kilter, now all right