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How many of these animals can you guess? I have given crossword-style clues to help you piece together the components of some answers.
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Type
Clue
Animal
A
Fish
A short form of a rude insult, with the second word, meaning a void or woodpecker's nesting site, repeated
Aholehole
B
Bird
Naked, looked to clear off flying creature
Bare-faced go-away bird
C
Reptile
Cowardly, turn and hide one's face instead of fighting
Chicken turtle
D
Fish
Doubtful African river lost nothing, and gained East River
Dubious conger
E
Fish
Rubbery, stretchy, Southern general returned
Elastic eel
F
Invertebrate
Breakfast food, gelatine dessert and main course
Fried egg jellyfish
G
Parasitic worm
Huge, spiky like brambles, led invertebrate of pigs
Giant thorny-headed worm of swine
H
Parasitic wasp
Laughter and bromine combine with onyx and British queen's butt duct
Habronyx victorianus
I
Invertebrate
Dessert shape; nothing replaces a warm ending
Ice cream cone worm
J
Feline
United Nations and Diana turn one cat into another
Jaguarundi
K
Insect
Girl, a short form of Catherine, acted
Katydid
L
Invertebrate
Single sun, as seen in Texas, to write v-shape symbol in a box
Lone star tick
M
Fish
Other type of E, like a cobra, with upper lip hair
Mustachioed snake eel
N
Seabird
Trap of Peruvian lines
Nazca booby
O
Beetle
Ancient home hole-driller
Old house borer
P
Bird
Mystifying: clean tiny British bird with vigorous wipes
Perplexing Scrubwren
Q
Dinosaur
Almost go by bike (nothing replaces energy) to a reptilian ending
Quasicyclotosaurus
R
African bird
Cuisine named after French words for ribbon and a colour; the sides of the bird's face are a colour too, a warmer one
Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
S
Reptile
Devilish Nissan followed lizard
Satanic leaf tailed gecko
T
Rodent
Fast species of a Shakespearean animal
Turbo shrew
U
Rodent
Surprising plant, used to make clothing, and mixed-up art
Unexpected cotton rat
V
Invertebrate
Acetic acid, double oxygen, and nitrogen
Vinegaroon
W
Bird
Foreign prefix, a postscript to Arkansas, is light-coloured on the back of the neck
White-naped xenopsaris
X
Bird
Greek letter and weird gun, the Devil's blade, William
Xingu scythebill
Y
Woodpecker
Cowardly-sounding bird with a sun-coloured underside, which drinks resin out of a tree
Yellow bellied sapsucker
Z
Bird
Scarlet chessman from a Tanzanian isle
Zanzibar red bishop
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