Complete Clue List
Across
2. Vet
8. The ____ python ("Aspidites ramsayi") is also known as Ramsay's python
9. The ____ black snake ("Pseudechis porphyriacus") has colourful flanks and underparts (3-7)
10. Neighbour, be next to
11. The ____ Coast of New South Wales (3,5) is a habitat for tiger snakes ("Notechis scutatus")
13. Kimberley (WA) is home to the directionally named ____ death 18A ("Acanthophis praelongus")
15. Plants again
17. Extravagant or intensive publicity, not to be ignored in the case of snakes
18. One of Australia's most venomous land snakes is the common death ____ ("Acanthophis antarcticus")
19. "Demansia psammophis" is the fast-moving yellow-faced ____ snake and sounds like a cracking animal
20. DIE GUT gives rise to "Pseudonaja affinis", a venomous snake from Western Australia (anag.)
22. "Furina diadema" with its coloured neck is called the ____ snake (3-5)
24. EEK! BLACK, brown or olive, the common ____ ("Tropidonophis mairii") or the freshwater snake (anag.)
27. Unfortunate occurrence
28. The Saint Vincent blacksnake is endemic to that island in Saint Vincent and the ____
29. The arboreal "Dendrelaphis punctualatus" is better known as the Australian ____ snake
30. Dawn deity
Down
1. Promoting health (4,3,3)
2. Rear end, buttocks (US, inf.)
3. The colourful ____-naped snake ("Furina ornata") is also called the moon snake
4. Eden evictees who were deceived by a serpent: ____ and Eve (Gen. 3 [NIV])
5. Person providing a service or help
6. Weather events causing snakes to be displaced from their regular habitats
7. Victoria's Barwon South ____ region is a habitat for the lowland copperhead ("Austrelaps superbus")
12. Belonging to a male
14. Point of greatest despair
16. "Cacophis harriettae" is also known as the colourful ____ snake (5-5)
18. South Australia's state capital, home to a variety of snake species
19. Thingamajigs
20. U.S. territory that's now two states (abbr.)
21. The ____ taipan ("Oxyuranus microlepidotus") is an extremely venomous non-coastal snake
23. End that may be untimely
25. Home to some 19 species of snake: South Australia's ____ Peninsula
26. Royally connected? "Pseudechis australis" is the highly venomous ____ brown snake