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Stray Species Crossword Puzzle

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Number 1 (of 20) in a series of crosswords produced for November's Quiz Writing Challenge. A personal goal is to create a crossword for every Fun Trivia category. There is a theme which seasoned solvers should spot swiftly. One anagram may help with an uncommon animal. Enjoy!
Author: psnz - Diff: Harder

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      1. Somehow ALSO A small bovine mammal native to Laos and Vietnam (anag., 5)
      5. Palindromic Persian potentates (5)
      9. Robe for one tending a flock (3)
      10. Suffix for many canine crossbreeds (3)
      11. Snare (3)
      12. Six layers in a song (5)
      14. Stage in a butterfly's development (5)
      16. Stargazy pie fish (7)
      18. Spring (from) (4)
      20. Small duck, with a blue hue (4)
      22. Spanish thrush is not quite a Baltimore baseballer (5)
      23. Swing to and fro (4)
      25. Set's sister who resurrected Osiris (4)
      28. Swimmer of the North Pacific (3,4)
      31. She's given away (5)
      33. Sixth animal of the Chinese Zodiac (5)
      35. Stable boy, in Britain (3)
      36. Scamper (3)
      37. School of tomorrow? (3)
      38. Sworn ____ (5)
      39. Spring bloom from a bulb (5)

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      1. Swamis OR stuffing herbs (5)
      2. Stout relative (3)
      3. Struggling with middle management? (5)
      4. Monkey see, monkey do sort (4)
      5. Songs for one (4)
      6. See eye to eye (5)
      7. Target of lots of vaccine research (init., 3)
      8. Slow-moving mollusk (5)
      13. Siberian sled dog (7)
      15. Sort of doodlebug whose name suggests two other animals (7)
      17. Sounds boring, this West African baboon (5)
      19. Spotted, to Tweety (3)
      21. Black cuckoo (3)
      23. Siberian weasel AND shade of black (5)
      24. Stage remark akin to thinking aloud (5)
      26. Sound from an angry dog (5)
      27. Submissive group, farm flock (5)
      29. Hawk's high home (var., 4)
      30. "Say it ____ so!" (3'1)
      32. Skedaddled (3)
      34. Swimmer in an ornamental pond (3)