Across
- 3. Rikki Tikki's mother once fed him dead ___, so he wasn't afraid of Nag.
- 5. Mongooses like Rikki Tikki are filled with nosiness and _____ (paragraph 7).
- 6. Rikki Tikki saves Teddy from being bitten by ____, the brown snake
- 8. vocabulary word meaning "to help to grow"
- 9. When a mongoose is angry, its eyes grow ___(paragraph 32).
- 10. the name of the boy who finds Rikki Tikki and welcomes him into his family
- 12. Nag and Nagaina plan to kill the entire ____, so eventually they will have the house and garden to themselves.
- 14. ______ tries to attack Rikki Tikki in the garden, but Darzee warns Rikki Tikki just in time.
- 17. vocabulary word meaning "a lot" (Rikki Tikki like the meat that he ate _____)
- 19. Nag, the cobra's wife
- 20. Rikki Tikki Tavi is a _______ (type of animal).
Down
- 1. the name of the muskrat that was afraid he'd be mistakenly killed by Nag
- 2. vocabulary word meaning "a hero" or "someone sent by God to save another"
- 4. Outside the bathroom's ___ (drain), Rikki Tikki overheard Nag and Nagaina plotting.
- 7. Teddy's father beat Karait, the brown snake, even though he was already ____.
- 9. the author of "Rikki Tikki Tavi"
- 11. On his 2nd day with the family, Rikki Tikki explored the _____ behind the bungalow(house).
- 13. Darzee's wife was sad because Nag, the cobra, had eaten one of her _____.
- 15. Darzee and his wife are ____ (type of animal).
- 16. Rikki Tikki was washed out of his burrow during a summer _____.
- 18. the name of the big, black cobra that lived in the garden with his wife