Spider Families

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Across
  1. 5. Ant-mimicking/“pirate” spiders
  2. 7. Running crab-spiders, very fast predators
  3. 11. Mouse-trap-like mygalomorph spiders
  4. 13. Long-jawed orb-weavers
  5. 14. Large tropical wandering spiders
  6. 18. Palm- and rock-dwelling palpimanid spiders
  7. 19. Cribellate orb-weavers lacking venom glands
  8. 20. Jumping spiders — excellent vision
  9. 23. Wall-dwellers with small, wheel-like webs
  10. 24. Web-builders in moist habitats, often under stones
  11. 25. Ground-running night hunters
Down
  1. 1. Crab-spiders, ambush specialists on flowers
  2. 2. Ant-eating ground spiders
  3. 3. Cellar-and cave-dwelling long-legged spiders
  4. 4. Sheet-weavers,tiny spiders often in grassy vegetation
  5. 6. Orb-weavers, often in gardens
  6. 8. Recluse/violin spiders — sometimes medically significant
  7. 9. Classic funnel-web builders
  8. 10. Cobweb spiders including black-widow relatives
  9. 12. Tarantulas and kin — large hairy mygalomorphs
  10. 15. Nursery-web and fishing spiders
  11. 16. Lynx spiders with spiny legs, fast jumpers
  12. 17. Huntsman / giant crab-spiders
  13. 21. False wolf-spiders — superficially like Lycosidae
  14. 22. Wolf spiders — diurnal hunters