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  • BBC Wildlife Magazine

    PUZZLES

    Sep 23, 2021 3 minutes

    ACROSS

    7 Citrus fruit, ancestor of the grapefruit (6)

    8 Whale’s spiracle (8)

    9 Asian mountain range to which the rhododendron is native (8)

    10 Insectivorous Old World bird that might be fork-tailed or spangled (6)

    11 Secretive forest bird, related to the snipe (8)

    12 Bear-like (6)

    13 Brightly coloured marine fish in the family Balistidae (11)

    18 ___ bee, social insect in the genus (6)

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