Across
- 3. Cats may do this as a way to end a confrontation with another animal (4)
- 4. A cat’s ________ doesn’t connect to their other bones, as these bones are buried in their shoulder muscles (10)
- 6. The French word for cat (4)
- 8. Top Cat (T.C.) is the leader of a gang of alley cats living here (9)
- 10. When a cat is scared, he will put these back, but when in hunting mode, he puts them forward (8)
- 11. A mature Siberian _____ can top out at 11 feet long and close to 700 pounds (5)
- 12. Cats have nearly twice the amount of _______ in their cerebral cortex as dogs (7)
Down
- 1. Cats use their long tails to do this when they’re jumping or walking along narrow ledges (7)
- 2. The term ‘big cat’ is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus ________ (8)
- 5. Character from the 1981 musical ‘Cats’ who loves to be the centre of attention (3,3,6)
- 7. Mistakenly believed to have hailed from Canada, this cat breed was first acknowledged in the cat fancy as ‘Chocolate Siamese’ in the 1880’s (9)
- 9. This breed of cat was believed to have originated from the Lake Van region of Turkey (7,3)