Across
- 3. a piece of land surrounded by water:
- 5. a luxuriant, dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall:
- 7. + 5 = 9
- 8. with or in proximity to another person or people:
- 11. expressing gratitude and relief
- 13. walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread
- 14. a stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having gray and white plumage
Down
- 1. feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
- 2. the mass or line of foam formed by waves breaking on a seashore or reef
- 3. a large, arboreal, tropical American lizard with a spiny crest along the back and greenish coloration, occasionally kept as a pet.
- 4. – 2 = 13
- 6. resembling the tropics, especially in being very hot and humid:
- 7. a fortified building or strategic position:
- 9. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore:
- 10. a strip of land covered with sand, pebbles, or small stones at the edge of a body of water, especially by the ocean between high- and low-water marks:
- 12. a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping.