Symphosius
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ACROSS
1. Drink sachets (3,4)
5. Proficient
9. Sensationalist (press)
10. Tunisia’s neighbour
11. Stomach sore
12. Literary masterpiece
13. Impart knowledge
15. Northern sea duck
17. Blokes
20. Dairy animal
21. U-boat
23. Lawn tools
27. Classify
30. Get to feet
32. Partial exchange (5-2)
33. Cruel
34. Unabbreviated
35. Money put by (4,3)
36. Senses
37. Deviousness
DOWN
1. Hand-held PCs
2. Country, Saudi ...
3. Clip on
4. Day of rest
5. Decelerates (5,2)
6. Bring on (birth)
7. Coerced
8. Reading room
14. Browbeaten
16. Map within map
17. Aggressive dog
18. Inquire
19. Mayday call (1,1,1)
22. Highbrow person
24. Gathers
25. Shoelace holes
26. Magazine chiefs
28. Sudden
29. Of race & culture
30. Comfortably
31. Blame
10. F
leas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is
equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building
in New York
1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from
drifting apart
2. Turtles can breathe through their bottoms
3. Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a
pebble
4. Oysters can change gender depending on which is
best for mating
5. On an average, a sheep consumes 2 to 4.5 pounds of
food daily
12. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints
and can be used to identify them
13. The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along
at about 0.01 mph
14. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upsidedown
15. A snail can sleep for 3 years at a time
6. Sheep cannot get up when they are lying on their back
and need help to get up
16. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream
lying down
7. Before we called it spring this season was known as
Lent or Lenten
17. A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9
pounds
8. The earliest known use of the term ‘spring-cleaning’
was in 1857
18. Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs
9. On average, there are 50,000 spiders per acre in
green areas
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11. Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. They
are also one of the three mammals that undergo
menopause – the other two being humpback whales
and human females
19. A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head
20. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a
blue whale