Swimming Through Sand

This week we are moving to Africa, looking for a lizard. A bunch of lizards. This kind has over thirty species in it. For extra help solving this crossword puzzle, see Swimming Through Sand.

Yellow-Throated Plated Lizard: Gerrhosaurus flavigularis
William Kreijkes, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

1. This lizard can move through ____ like a fish through water.
2. This ____ has over thirty species in it.
3. These are also known as ______ lizards.
4. They belong to the ______ Gerrhosauridae.
5. Females lay up to eight ____.
6. Incubation time can be influenced by ___________.
7. The hatchlings are miniature _____.
8. Hatchlings can ____ for themselves.
9. Plated lizards are __________.
10. Sometimes they are opportunistic and might eat ______.
11. These lizards grasp food with both their tongue and ____.
12. Many plated lizards live in ______.

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