Word Safari

Where the wild words are.
Embark on a lexical safari! This puzzle features clever wordplay, challenging you to find the names of animals hidden inside the theme answers.
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Across

  • 3A
    Old English tribe carrying an ox
  • 6A
    Any creature on this puzzle's safari
  • 7A
    Shere Khan, for one
  • 8A
    Biblical 'I am' that conceals a laughing scavenger
  • 10A
    Coming back with a wild goat inside
  • 14A
    Dian Fossey's milieu
  • 15A
    Heart or liver, for example
  • 16A
    Cheesy dish with a jaguar scrambled inside
  • 17A
    The thrill of the hunt

Down

  • 1D
    H2O with a stowaway rodent
  • 2D
    Catlike creature associated with prized coffee
  • 3D
    Subfamily of butterflies that includes a mythical woodland creature
  • 4D
    Extraterrestrials harboring the king of the beasts
  • 5D
    Blue whale's domain
  • 9D
    Mankind, which holds a man at its center
  • 11D
    Our planet, holding a stag
  • 12D
    Scratchy's animated partner, who is a mouse
  • 13D
    Serengeti setting, for many