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Better Animal Terms Crossword Puzzle

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Ever think that the Manta ray would be better named a Majestic Sea Flap Flap? If so this puzzles is for you. Google "image funny animal names" first if you want to see what inspired this.
Author: havan_ironoak - Diff: Harder

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      1. Chicago's overhead railway
      3. Short Slang for Crosswalks in the UK (Prison Ponies?)
      8. State which has the Nene as a state bird (abbr.)
      10. Rodents like Pixie and Dixie
      13. Health plan option (abbr.)
      14. Gas guzzlers
      19. Headstone acronym
      20. 21st Greek Letter
      21. African running bird (Pantless Thundergoose?)
      23. Benefit
      24. Really Great Ape
      26. American marsupial that plays dead
      29. State with a bear on its flag (abbr.)
      31. Film Genius
      34. Fowl lady
      35. Pod Predators (Sea Pandas?)
      37. Registered Nurse
      38. Proud fowl (Disco Turkey?)
      41. Mystic Mantra
      42. Noisy Bird - (certainly not mousey)
      44. JFK's killer (Initials)
      46. " Shock and ___"
      47. Muscle targeted by sit-ups (abbr.)
      49. Egg laying mammal (Duck Puppy?)
      52. Flat or Pocket Bread
      54. Perchance
      55. Fossey's friends
      57. Therefore
      59. Not the ego or the super-ego
      60. Prickly critter (Spiky Floof?)
      62. Support the right to ___ bears!
      64. Bearded mountain mammal (Wizard Sheep?)
      66. Spanish for "like that."
      67. 8th Month (abbr.)
      69. Mighty Mite (superhero with 14 down)
      70. Bast was one
      71. Antarctic bird (Formal Ice Chicken?)
      73. Bambi's mama
      75. Bull in a china shop expletive
      77. Financial metric of the profitability of investments (abbr.)
      79. Jumped-up Joey (Velocirabbit?)
      81. Andean expectorators (Giraffe Sheep?)
      83. He's a (talking) horse, of course
      84. American slang for bifurcated lorry
      86. Species of "Ben" (1972)
      87. Turncoat Mink
      88. Terrapin (Shell Puppy?)

      Down

      1. Toto's owner's aunt
      2. Turkey money
      4. Look around
      5. Serengeti beast for short (Horny Leather Tank?)
      6. Before noon (Abbr.)
      7. US/Canada canal locks locale
      8. Post ___, ergo procter...
      9. Kinda, sorta (suffix)
      11. Ferret's toddycat cousin
      12. U.S. governmental "treehugger" department
      14. Minuscule matter
      15. Samovar to which Keats wrote an ode.
      16. Poet Blake's cat (Danger Zebra?)
      17. Orange County (abbr.)
      18. Quiet, please (abbr.)
      22. Striped stinker (Fart squirrel?)
      25. Actual Aardvark (two words)
      27. Book title "Panda Eats, ___s, & Leaves"
      28. Regulator of U.S. Stock Market
      29. Horses by Committee (or Hot Moose?)
      30. Chemical symbol for Arsenic
      32. College (abbr)
      33. Not Down
      36. Milk Container
      39. Crocodile's cousin (American murder log?)
      40. Rubs you the wrong way
      43. Make lace
      45. Baby dog
      48. Blind as a Thai Currency?
      50. Irreligious one
      51. Coastal bird (Beach Chicken?)
      53. The "correct" answer at a wedding (two words)
      56. Father of Jr. (abbr.)
      58. Marine mammals (Fuzzy Water Weasels?)
      61. River horses, for short (Danger Water Pigs?)
      63. Quirky 1983 TV series about shape shifting human
      65. Lemur of Madagascar (Meth Mouse?)
      68. Microgram (Alt. symbol)
      70. Animal Jails
      72. Digraph for Spain
      74. Acceptable
      76. Hawaiian honey eater
      78. Evaluate
      80. Sport drink Gator-___
      81. Voice of the Ferret Yumi (Think "Kill Bill")
      82. Fuzzy Science
      85. Often made out of a molehill (abbr.)