Complete Clue List
Across
1. The shed larval skin after emergence
4. Sportsman Mr Ted Hankey's favourite dragonfly
7. A family of fiercely hot chillies (Pl.)
9. Typically in Greek, a 'wanderer'
11. Dragonfly wings are intricately ____
13. Each stage of larval development is known as a ____
16. Magnum ____
18. A very strong wind
20. Male sheep
21. Family to which dragonflies and damselflies belong
23. Removable or hinged cover
24. Analgesic extracted from the Willow tree
27. Order issued in divorce proceedings; 'Decree ____'
29. Noble gas
30. A sudden and brief attack
32. Designation given to US prototype fighter aircraft
33. A French name?
34. A digital camera sensitivity setting (Acr.)
35. Match winning move in certain contact sports (Abbr.)
36. Ideal habitat for dragon and damselflies.
37. ____ operandi
38. Handsome tree-nesting duck, rare in the UK but common in Europe
39. Typically a meat filled pastry
41. To take sustenance
43. The dragonfly is an aggressive and efficient ____
44. Delicately small, pretty and very rare UK damselfly species
Down
1. The most regal of British dragonflies - Anax imperator
2. 235 or 238?
3. A social insect
4. Acronym for 'Alvin', operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
5. Term for newly emerged dragon or damselfly
6. Species of damselfly named for its distinctive eye colour
8. The UK's largest dragonfly
10. River in north-western Germany
12. Tree genus decimated during the 1960s and 70s
14. Letters after last dot in an internet address (Acr.)
15. Sterilised milk (Acr.)
17. Blur studio album released 1994.
19. Realistic, authentic
21. Female gametes
22. First name of the author of 'Atlas Shrugged'
25. Perpetrator of a confidence trick
26. A molecule that has gained an electrical charge has been ____
27. Water borne phase of dragonfly life cycle
28. Incompetent, amateurish
30. Popular Swiss potato dish
31. Cordulia aenea - the ____ Emerald dragonfly
40. Web browser (Acr.)
42. Electrical alternative to R6, Size 15 or HP7?