1976
Birds and Things
May 1976


“Birds and Things,” Friend, May 1976, 26

Birds and Things

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Crossword puzzle

Across

5. My ________ and I have the same parents.

8. Fly ________ only a bird can.

10. Look for an acorn woodpecker in an ________ tree.

11. Feeding birds is an ________ of kindness.

13. A male child.

14. Below a bird’s bill is its ________.

15. A ________ makes honey.

18. Sixth tone on the musical scale.

19. A bird cannot twitch its ________.

20. Another name for small child.

22. Nighttime bird.

23. Article used before words beginning with vowel letters.

24. Young louse.

27. Third and fourth letters of word float.

28. Opposite of day.

32. Small brown singing bird.

34. Diving and fishing bird whose name rhymes with moon.

35. Two middle letters of word look.

36. Shaped like a sphere.

37. Belonging to me.

Down

1. Birds sit on a ________.

2. Variation of the spelling of the word meow.

3. Look ________ the birdie.

4. First two letters of map spelled backward.

5. To cry.

6. Birds fly high in the ________.

7. When birds are hungry they ________.

9. Small gray and brown bird.

12. A bird often builds a nest in a ________.

16. Spelling of the letter L.

17. Opposite of west.

20. Light brown color.

21. Common vegetable originally from Mongolia.

25. Wherever a bird flies his ________ will follow.

26. A bird with a broken ________ can’t fly.

29. Opposite of stop.

30. Owl’s cry.

31. The twentieth and fourteenth letters of the alphabet.

32. Common food for birds.

33. Familiar red-breasted bird.

Answers:

  • Across—(5) sister, (8) as, (10) oak, (11) act, (13) boy, (14) throat, (15) bee, (18) la, (19) ear, (20) tot, (22) owl, (23) an, (24) nit, (27) oa, (28) night, (32) wren, (34) loon, (35) oo, (36) orb, (37) mine. Down—(1) perch, (2) miaow, (3) at, (4) pa, (5) sob, (6) sky, (7) eat, (9) sparrow, (12) tree, (16) el, (17) east, (20) tan, (21) onion, (25) tail, (26) wing, (20) go, (30) hoot, (31) tn, (32) worn, (33) robin.