Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Chronicles of Vanishing Fauna
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Arctic whale with a spiraled tusk, mythic 'unicorn' of seas
- 2. Scent-marking mammal called 'bearcat', blending viverrid traits
- 4. Neotenic amphibian famous for limb regeneration in Xochimilco
- 7. Islands housing evolution’s emblematic endangered reptilian giants
- 8. Towering wild cattle of South Asian forests, horned colossus
- 9. Scaly mammal, trafficked globally for keratinous armor
- 11. Forest giraffid, striped like zebra, hidden in Congo
- 15. Cryptic shorebird, whose plight marks coastal ecosystem distress
- 16. Elusive 'Asian unicorn' spotted in Annamite mist
Down
- 3. Rare felid from Russian taiga with ghostly stealth
- 5. Mountain-dwelling wild goat with curving horns, alpine specialist
- 6. Great ape with ruddy hair, arboreal philosopher of Borneo
- 10. Unique freshwater dolphin with bulging forehead, Southeast Asian riverine
- 12. Nocturnal flightless parrot with booming territorial call
- 13. Small ape whose dawn songs echo the tropical canopy
- 14. Odd-toed ungulate with snorkel-like proboscis in dense forests
- 17. Steppe antelope with bulbous nasal structure adapting to dust
- 18. World’s smallest porpoise, disappearing swiftly in northern Gulf
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