Halloween crossword
Halloween is the spookiest night of the year, full of costumes and carved pumpkins. This crossword gathers the ghoulish words of the season for children to solve. A frightfully fun pick for the last week of October.
Harder grades use longer answers and give fewer crossing letters.
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6 answers did not fit this grid and were left out: VAMPIRE, SPOOKY, SPIDER, GHOST, WITCH, CANDY. Try a larger grid or an easier grade.
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Two pages: the puzzle with its numbered clues, and a full answer key with the grid filled in. The answers interlock across and down, sized for clean large-print printing.
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The puzzle and its answer key, as they print.
How to solve a crossword
Fill the white squares so every numbered clue reads across or down.
The method
- 1Read the clue and its number. Each number in the grid starts an answer going across or down. Find the clue with that number and direction.
- 2Count the squares. The run of white squares after the number tells you how many letters the answer has.
- 3Write the answers you are sure of first. Start with the clues you know. Each answer you fill hands letters to the clues that cross it.
- 4Use the crossing letters. A shared letter from an answer you have placed narrows a crossing clue, often to a single word.
- The one rule
- Every white square belongs to an across answer and a down answer, and the two must agree on their shared letter.
- What the answer page shows
- The completed grid is printed at the back.
- How the grades differ
- Easier puzzles use common words and plain clues; harder ones use trickier wording and longer answers.
- Good for
- Word lovers, from a gentle themed puzzle to a classic challenge.
Clues in this halloween crossword
The 14 clues below fill the grid above. Each answer length is shown to help younger solvers; the full answer key prints on the second page.
- Orange gourd carved into a lantern (7 letters)
- A white spooky spirit that says boo (5 letters)
- She flies on a broomstick (5 letters)
- Eight-legged creature that spins a web (6 letters)
- All the bones with no body (8 letters)
- Caped creature with two long fangs (7 letters)
- A creature that rises from the grave (6 letters)
- Winged animal that flies at night (3 letters)
- Big pot a witch stirs her potion in (8 letters)
- Outfit you wear to dress up (7 letters)
- Sweets given out at the door (5 letters)
- Word meaning scary or eerie (6 letters)
- An old, dusty spider web (6 letters)
- A small, mischievous monster (6 letters)
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- Yes. Generate the halloween puzzle above, with its 14 clues and a full answer key, and print it at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Can I change the halloween clues?
- Yes. The generator is pre-filled with a themed clue list, but you can edit any clue, add your own, or change the title and generate a fresh grid. It runs entirely in your browser.
- Can I make a halloween crossword book to sell on KDP?
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