ATTENTION
CROSSWORD
Shri M Satyanarayana, Deputy Inspector General (Wildlife), MOEF, New Delhi 110003
How much do you know about Environment and Forests?
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Cryptic Cross :
1. Wood (6)
4. Minister for Environment and Forests (6)
9. This layer is protecting us from radiation (5)
10. Non metallic crystalline element (5)
11. This is necessary for all the development projects but got jumbled up (3)
12. Claw of a bird of prey (5)
13. Long handled tool with a blade, used for weeding (3)
14. Part of the Environment and Forests (11)
19. Pollution of it is causing serious concern (3)
20. Swimming mammal (3)
22. Nocturnal bird of prey got reversed (3)
23. Plural of large water bird with a broad bill (5)
24. Seaweed and plankton (5)
25. Plural of textile fibre made from cellulose (6)
26. Cord of strong connective tissue attaching a muscle to a bone got mixed up (6)
Cryptic Down :
1. Parallel of latitude of the Equator (6)
2. North American deer (5)
3. Electricity without city (7)
5. This development is threatening our environment (5)
6. Made of earth (7)
7. Our development is meaningless if we can't find solution to this (6)
8. Endangered marine mammal (4)
13. Female domestic bird (3)
15. Place where plants are reared (7)
16. Legendary creature with a woman’s head and trunk and a fish’s tail (7)
17. Nocturnal borrowing mammal with a black and white striped head (6)
18. Jungle (6)
20. Large expanse of sea (5)
21. Amphibian (4)
22. To work on computer, first you have to do this (5)
Answers in the next issue.