+------+------+------+------+------+
|  GI  |  CA  |  RA  |  GU  |  AY  |
+---- -+------+------+------+------+
|  NS  |  AT  | ADA  |  US  |  PL  |
+------+------+------+------+------+
|  JA  |  LA  |  AN  | TIO  | LDEB |
+------+------+------+------+------+
|  KS  |  VA  | VIN  | ADE  |  YP  |
+------+------+------+------+------+
| PAR  |  GD  | EEST |  TH  |  WI  |
+------+------+------+------+------+
  
   Clue.                      Answer 
Famous Mexican City       ***********(11)
Lays Eggs.                   ********(8)
Annual Party Event.     ************  ***  ******(12,3,6)  
Good for Morale.            *********(9)
African Animal.            **********(10)

In this puzzle, the answers are broken into groups of two, three or four letters and shuffled in the 5x5 array given above.
The task is to find five words, each relating to a specific theme,from the above-mentioned clues.

(In reply to solutions by Charlie)

Except for the missing pluralizing "s" for the answer to the fourth clue, i.e., vacations, I had the same solution:

Guadalajara
   GU-ADA-LA-JA-RA

platypus
   PL-AT-YP-US

Thanksgiving Day Parade
   TH+AN+KS+GI+VIN+G|D+AY + PAR+ADE

vacations
   VA+CA+TIO+NS

wildebeest
   WI+LDEB+EEST

Posted by Dej Mar on 2022-02-27 00:58:58