Complete Clue List
Across
1. Sacred creature to many Native Plains people
5. Domestic fowl's crest (var.)
9. Resided
10. Golden retriever? (6,3; 2nd word abbr.)
11. Philosophers specialising in moral principles
12. Very beginning (colloquial, 3-2)
13. Descend like a hawk
15. Critters with cheek pouches for storing food
18. Meets by chance (5,4)
19. Gobble grub (Brit.)
21. Improvised, like tool use by some animals (Lat., 2,3)
23. British organisation which may include animals on the coins it manufactures (5,4)
25. Common name for spiny plants ("Schlumbergera") that look like a marine crustacean (4,5)
26. Yellowhead or ____, insectivorous passerine found in NZ's South Island
27. Marsh heron
28. Jungle king-to-be (4,3)
Down
1. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammals
2. WELSH FORM of parasitic annelid, specifically larva of genus "Sarcophagidae" members (anag.)
3. Monkeyshine
4. "Oh no you can't!" response (2,3,1,3)
5. Young horses
6. Software like "Zoo Tycoon" (2013) and "Animal Doctor" (2021) designed for Microsoft's console (4,5)
7. Young hooter
8. Large terrestrial monkeys with doglike muzzles
14. PSYCH CLUE manoeuvred a conveyance (anag., 4-5)
16. Large North American woodpecker ("Campephilus principalis"), possibly extinct (5-4)
17. Stone Age period which saw domestication of animals
18. Grizzly youngster (4,3)
20. Obese ovine? (3,4)
22. Animal's vital pump
23. Puerto ____ fauna includes the common coquí, an endemic frog
24. State of uncertainty