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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