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Alphabestiary Crossword Puzzle

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Inspired by the Phoenix Rising crossword challenge, this animal themed puzzle is a double pangram, with each letter of the alphabet appearing at least twice in the grid.
Author: pusdoc - Diff: Harder

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      1. Having a strong, pleasant flavor
      7. Trade name for ibuprofen
      10. Off-Broadway's highest honor (2 wds, 4, 5)
      12. A kangaroo's jump may be called this
      13. Coquettish
      14. In the "Sound of Music," two words following Do
      15. Flightless birds of Australia
      16. A tendril of hair or smoke
      17. Sole venomous snake of Britain
      20. First name of choreographer Tharp
      23. Rhesus is a well-known type of this monkey
      27. Extinct subspecies of striped equine
      28. South American crocodilian
      29. A type of owl, named for its piercing call
      30. Salamander
      31. Wild goat
      33. Adjective for table salt that has an added substance to prevent thyroid disease
      35. Doubled onomatopoeia for a dog's bark
      36. Sounds made by a horse
      37. First name of husky-voiced British actress Fielding
      40. Japanese bread crumbs
      43. Cattle, Snowy and Great are forms of this heron type
      46. Type of bird of prey, red and black-shouldered varieties are well known
      47. Scimitar and Arabian varieties of this antelope were saved from extinction by captive breeding
      48. Spiral-horned antelope of southern Africa
      49. Slang term for a good buddy or a macho dude
      50. Bactrian or Dromedary
      51. Quill pig
      52. Japanese beer brand
      53. Blood-sucking invertebrate

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      1. Striped equine
      2. Ten-armed cephalopod, calamari when consumed
      3. Common Amish last name, settlement in Kansas
      4. South American camelid
      5. Noisy, often colorful bird of the Corvidae group
      6. Large stork of the Americas with a black, featherless head and red patch on neck
      7. What a species must do if they remain in an environment that changes
      8. North American thrush with faint breast spot, often cinnamon back
      9. Caterpillar or glowworm
      11. Dawn goddess
      18. Red or black game fish of the Gulf of Mexico
      19. Alternate name for Aquila audax, compound word formed from two raptors
      21. Conspicuous feature of the dove name-checked in Fleetwood Mac's "Edge of Seventeen" (2 wds, 5, 4)
      22. ______-nosed bats named for their foliate nasal appendage
      23. Large, powerful dog; "Hound of the Baskervilles" thought to be partly this type
      24. Herdsman in Greek pastoral poems or a town in Indiana
      25. Resplendent bird or monetary unit of Guatemala
      26. Ant-eating, egg-laying mammal
      32. Killer whale
      34. Sound of delight, e.g. on an amusement park ride
      38. Complete, whole
      39. Resembling gulls or terns
      40. Giant or red Asiatic animal prized by zoos
      41. Name in Tanzania for the lake with the most fish species in the world
      42. Forest giraffe
      43. Popular spreadsheet software
      44. Textile woven from Chinese grass stems
      45. Cultivated land
      47. Abbreviation for redox measurement in water testing
      49. Small insect or a listening device