CROSSWORLD

Fivve letters and counting for an Ethiopian duck,
must be something like Adaba, no - it's not, f... ;
two words meaning little devil or someone hard,
think of many, lke my nephew, the smalll bastard.

What's black and white and 'red' all over, a caper,
all these sayings, of course, it's the bloody nnewspaper;
they keep coming, middle eastern type worm again,
two words, genus this, genus that, I know, Saddam Hussein.

Surgical removal, eight letters, can't be masturbation,
maybe an old wound, like my 'ex' becomes cision;
now they want arboreal, must be living in trees,
should have known, an old friend of mine had hairy knees.

'Ignorant woman joined conflict to the east,' I don't care,
cryptic, craptic, you're like me, end up being 'unaware.'