Living Creatures Excluding Birds 10/08/16

[jackierob]

1. beery spouse ?
15. largest extant lizard
24. change a letter in muscle-power to get a crustacean
34. devour food greedily
36. sounds like a cooler for protruding part of face

[scorpiojo]

36 Chinchilla

[scorpiojo]

34 Wolf

[JJ109]

1. Alewife (fish)
2. Komodo Dragon

[Tilly2]

13 Komodo Dragon?

[Tilly2]

24 mussel

[aelmpvw]

24 brawn prawn

[jackierob]

thanks all once again

[Tilly2]

Sorry, mussels are not crustaceans. Mussel is wrong.

[aelmpvw]

i think mussels are crustaceans?

[Tilly2]

So did I, ael but they are shellfish rather than crustaceans, apparently.

Crustaceans are aquatic animals that have jointed legs, a hard shell and no backbone, such as crab, crayfish, lobster, prawns and shrimp. Shellfish (also known as molluscs) have a hinged two-part shell and include clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, and various types of octopus, snails and squid