Complete Clue List
Across
1. Little grebe (8)
5. Animal for whom a blood factor is named (6)
9. Critter with a cheek pouch for storing food (8)
10. Unpaid debt - hopefully not the vet's bill! (6)
12. Like some animals, moving too quickly to be seen clearly (1,4)
13. Massive herbivorous long-tailed bipedal dinosaur; think "Godzilla" (9)
14. Cleverness, demonstrated by some animals like dolphins and border collies (12)
18. Major South-American city in a country whose national animal is the jaguar (3,2,7)
21. Neckwear for a canine or a clergyman (3,6)
23. Brightly-coloured lizard (5)
24. ____ Loosey from Disney's 2005 animated film "Chicken Little" (6)
25. Type of bird's tail that received Argus's 100 eyes, in myth (7'1)
26. Common finch, so called because it feeds on seeds of flax (6)
27. Big waves that have swept elephants out to sea from Asian countries (8)
Down
1. Remove the nails from, as a cat (6)
2. Horse's headgear (6)
3. Animal's natural habitat (4,5)
4. Large or relatively large in number, such as the population of cane toads in Australia (12)
6. Long-legged wader (5)
7. Casting off hair, skin, horn, or feathers (8)
8. Hypodermic devices used for people and other animals (8)
11. Stubborn but fun-loving English dogs once bred for vermin control and blood sports (4,8)
15. A very large rare Arctic raptor, "Falco rusticolus" (9)
16. Like the biblical son who wasted his fortune and survived feeding pigs [Luke 15:11-32, NIV] (8)
17. Cattle breed: Texas ____ (8)
19. Cavity in which the large intestine begins (UK spelling, 6)
20. State where Dorothy and Toto are from (6)
22. Daisy variety OR round window, both named for a bovine body part (5)