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Across 2. french moon 4. Small songbird 8. twig eater 13. our other forest 14. townsend 15. tree of life 17. cartilaginous fish 20. pacific giant 22. photosynthesizing bug eater 23. lady with a belt 24. fire bird 27. squirrel or tree 29. shawnee's white rump 31. western, horned, eared 33. loudest singer (2 wds) 36. sea otter's life line 39. blue, fin, brydes 40. precarious kid 41. fishing hawk 42. saltwater and freshwater mix 43. Rudolph in North America 44. fishy fruit (2 wds) 47. toothless brush 49. carbon sink 51. keratin grips 53. hawks, eagles, falcons 54. rarest rodent, on V.I. 55. poe's corvid

Down 1. aka mountain lion 2. snowshoe specialist 3. famous magician 5. eagle's nest 6. his best friend's cousins 7. slick pinneped 9. i can hear your heart beating 10. sap sucker 11. fastest of all 12. oldest reptile 14. a kind of poison 16. Kodiak relative 18. newt relative 19. sharp hair 21. chum, for one 22. BC's provincial bird (2 wds) 25. longest migrants (2 wds) 26. where the river meets the ocean 28. stinky sauerkraut (2 wds) 30. Hugh Jackman role 32. aquatic leo 34. operatic canine 35. butting keratin 37. baby bat, fox and seal 38. tropical counterpart 41. of sea or river 45. prehistoric proboscidea 46. castor coin 47. badger's domicile 48. number of bear species worldwide 50. not really a whale 52. chiroptera