Across  
1. a particular type of a member of the plant, fungus or animal kingdom  
2. large hoglike animal with thick hairless skin that eats plants and lives in African rivers  
8. a germ for instance  
9. reddish haired primate native to Sumatra  
10. a freshwater fish such as a rainbow ______  
13. half the distance of a circle  
14. a large bovine animal with horns, such as Bullwinkle  
15. a common pet found in a bowl or tank  
16. something that stirs or urges to action  
17. a desert plant  
18. plural of fungus  
19. group of newsgathering operations: both singular and plural  
  
Down  
1. a fish which seeks to return to its spawning spot  
3. more that one stimulus  
4. the wives of all my brothers  
5. plural of hippopotamus  
6. the husbands of all my sisters  
7. plural form of early stage of insects such as a caterpillar  
11. the central part of an atom  
12. more than 1 nucleus