Answer:

animal

Answer	Crossword Clue
ANIMAL	Brutish one
ANIMAL	Eric Burdon, in the '60s
ANIMAL	Kind of cracker

ANIMAL	Kiddie cracker
ANIMAL	Kids' cracker
ANIMAL	Menagerie member
ANIMAL	Pet, usually
ANIMAL	Brute
ANIMAL	Dolittle patient
ANIMAL	Twenty Questions qualifier
ANIMAL	"20 Questions" category

ANIMAL	Muppet drummer
ANIMAL	Inhuman human
ANIMAL	Cracker shape, maybe
ANIMAL	Beast
ANIMAL	Orwell's "... Farm"
ANIMAL	Biology label
ANIMAL	20 Questions category
ANIMAL	Orwellian farmer

ANIMAL	Mink or sable
ANIMAL	Orwell's ".. Farm"
ANIMAL	Wolfman, some nights
ANIMAL	Aesop character, usually
ANIMAL	Twisted balloon shape, often
ANIMAL	Jaguar or impala
ANIMAL	Member of a large kingdom
ANIMAL	Twenty Questions category

ANIMAL	"...., vegetable or mineral?"
ANIMAL	Cracker critter
ANIMAL	The Marx Brothers' "... Crackers"
ANIMAL	"The Muppet Show" drummer
ANIMAL	It's not vegetable or mineral
ANIMAL	Skink or skunk
ANIMAL	"... House"
ANIMAL	"... Farm"

ANIMAL	Kind of magnetism
ANIMAL	Zoo denizen
ANIMAL	Creature
ANIMAL	Muppet on drums
ANIMAL	Zoo creature

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.