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A CROSSWORD PUZZLE FOR B‘RD BUFFS

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by John Wright, Head of Montague, 15.3.1.

Almost every clue or solution has to do with birds. The clues marked ' are 'cryptic', in British style. The unmarked ones are merely descriptive.

(Puzzle solutions on page 12.)

ACROSS LOW 1. Flocking 1. Red— .___ed Hawk 4. Feature-of Great Black-backed Gull 2. Bird barely larger than Kinglet ‘10. Rock becomes colour of Swainson's ‘3. Reptilia that try harder ' Thrush in splitting ~ ‘5. Tears or sun ‘11. Man with hangover, grade 2, find: ’6. Fresh ink GI smeared on riverbank -Guillemot supspecies amid tin trash 7. Fate of most animals is to be ____ 12. Loon habitat 8. Longspur 13. British cousin of Cardinals, ‘9. Egg a very Eastern bird Buntings, etc. 14. Ardeid (g, virescens) recorded ‘15. Mingled ducks reside in downy onca for P.E.I. nests 17. Robin's habitat 16. Birdwatching is a occupation ‘18. Birds ascend withwt one 20. Raises another brood 19. Transition between subspecies 21. Dominant nestling, usually ‘22. Rushes to be injured in ‘24. Bring forth-fish2-from eggs experiments 26. Dark- Junco ‘23. Heron showed remorse, then lost ‘28. Wraps or scrambles nests in eaves its head 29. Parent de l'hibcu 25. What crows do to hawks 30. Eagle's gaze ‘27. Swallow for a swallow

31. Cob's offspring