Your Cat Kittyword - February 2020

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Across
  1. 3. A cat’s ____ is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34 (4)
  2. 5. Some cats are ambidextrous, but 40 percent are either ____- or right-pawed (4)
  3. 6. The Japanese word for cat (4)
  4. 7. A cat usually has about 12 of these on each side of its face (8)
  5. 9. Fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (8,3)
  6. 11. Breed of cat with a curly, very soft short coat, similar to that of the Cornish Rex (5,3)
  7. 12. When cats hit you with retracted claws, they're _______, not attacking (7)
Down
  1. 1. A female cat is called a _____ or a molly (5)
  2. 2. Common collective noun for a group of newborn kittens (6)
  3. 4. Term used for a group of adult cats (7)
  4. 8. This black-maned lion is the main villain in Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ (4)
  5. 10. Popular cat breed with a semi-longhaired coat, distinctive markings, and beautiful blue eyes (7)