Your Cat Kittyword - October 2019

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Across
  1. 4. Term often used when referring to a female cat which is pregnant or nursing (5)
  2. 5. _______ is a sign of fear, stress or discomfort – not a sign of aggression (7)
  3. 7. A group of kittens is a ‘kindle’, whereas a group of cats is a ‘______’ (7)
  4. 8. Cats’ _____ bones don’t connect to the rest of their skeleton and are instead buried in their shoulder muscles (6)
  5. 10. A bezoar is the technical name for what? (8)
  6. 11. A grey/blue cat who has a love-hate relationship with Jerry Mouse (3)
Down
  1. 1. As the name suggests, this breed of cat has beautiful silvery-blue fur which is easy to groom. (7,4)
  2. 2. The mysterious disappearing cat in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (8,3)
  3. 3. Cats have 230 of these (5)
  4. 6. This breed originates from the Southeast Asian island of Singapore, and take their name from the local Malay name for the island - meaning ‘Lion City’ (9)
  5. 9. First name of the black cat featured in the series ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ (5)