Natural History Quiz


Here's a little something for those of you with too much time on your hands
and too full of Christmas pud to get out into the fresh air...


See how many of these clues you can work out. Some clues are simple, straightforward definitions,
some are hidden words, some are anagrams and some are just plain cryptic.
To help you, all the answers - which I'll add in a couple of weeks - are in alphabetical order.


1. The Windflower [7]

2. Limb plus a herb come to nothing [9]

3. Trembling tree [5]

4. Symbol of the R.S.P.B. [6]

5. Merle [9]

6. Buzzing goon? [10]

7. Robert's feline? [6]

8. The oldest tree [11,4]

9. It might puzzle a monkey [5,4]

10. Sounds like a pansy - see him before it [10]

11. Beloved of Harlequin [9]

12. Angry William [9]

13. Eye of the day [ 5 ]

14. Miami footballer? [7]

15. Odd letter loses five hundred [8]

16. Glad if sour [7,3]

17. Chide an anteater [7]

18. W.I. gear? [6]

19. I feel melancholy about its fate [3]

20. Its pelt will make her mine [7]

21. It's unploughed, darling [6,4]

22. Fiery circle? [8]

23. Flunkey [7]

24. Remember me [6-2-3]

25. Emu has grain and petals [8]

26. Ah! Grail found by river [7]

27. Figs hold a pond dweller [8]

28. Sawbill will drag noose [9]

29. A tree on Watership Down? [5]

30. Stamp-collecting or train-spotting [5]

31. The best policy? [7]

32. Sportsman from Watford or Rochdale? [6]

33. Wild mountain goat [4]

34. The holm oak [4]

35. Greek goddess of the rainbow [4]

36. Metallic timber? [8]

37. E-type? [6]

38. Tenth letter [3]

39. Will Jon quail without a spring flower? [7]

40. Donovan's Jennifer? [7]

41. Koo rang a bounder [8]

42. The Windhover [7]

43. Ken pawed wild flower [8]

44. Sounds like a packing case that's poisonous [5]

45. Number four from Monty Python [5]

46. Pink lady lives between the hills [4-2-3-6]

47. Tennis loses a point but gains fifty [6]

48. Crustacean danced a quadrille [7]

49. Is it suffering from log mania? [8]

50. One for sorrow [6]

51. Arm major in the herb garden [8]

52. A member of Labour [4]

53. Nine trace sweet fruit [9]

54. Did Florence join the Watch? [11]

55. Neo-cult member is batty [7]

56. Margaret follows the loony [6]

57. Olé! Four included! [5]

58. A fruity gratuity? [6-3]

59. Can't fly but it's a saint in the choir [7]

60. Mij or Edal [5]

61. Was the Mona Lisa one of these? [7,4]

62. Heartsease [5]

63. Could also be a rod or pole [5]

64. Will tramp gain a game bird? [9]

65. Relative of ass and zebra, sadly no more [6]

66. Cower [5]

67. Found in a frightened lawn? [7-5]

68. A rude mechanical - fruity, too [6]

69. Tattered bird, or flower? [6,5]

70. Highest ranking Russian sailor? [3,7]

71. Good fellow plays for Bristol City [5]

72. Does Royal Academician own mountain ash? [5]

73. A wise man in the herb garden [4]

74. Ram and seal combine to form an amphibian [10]

75. Shelley's 'blithe spirit' [7]

76. Score may become a large tree [8]

77. I sat Mark by a seaside shrub [8]

78. Then a hundred went for a swim [5]

79. Let this represent Scotland [7]

80. Sounds like he taught us [8]

81. Type of moth with brightly coloured lower wings [9]

82. Scarab with a horn [7,6]

83. Old country name for the hedgehog [6]

84. Major bear of Rome - or the heavens? [4]

85. Devon ace loses nothing to catch this fish [7]

86. See you, Ivan, with the llama's cousin [6]

87. Girl from 'Twelfth Night' - with strings attached? [5]

88. Scavenging bird of prey [7]

89. Wet, I rally in the pond [9]

90. Will it show ease lying down? [6]

91. Wow! Ill, and sobbing too! [7,6]

92. This bird could wreck New York! [7]

93. Country name for the green woodpecker [6]

94. Kay returns for Tibetan ox [3]

95. Milfoil is a worry [6]

96. Sounds like you could make a bow [3]

97. Could it gaze brazenly across the Serengeti? [5]

98. Has a red bill and black-and-white striped rump [5,5]

99. Humped ox of India and Africa [4]

100. Colourful Mexican daisy-like flower [6]



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