Is this crossword generator free?

Yes. Type your answers and clues, generate a puzzle and print the puzzle plus its answer key, with no sign-up and no watermark. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.

Does it include an answer key?

Yes. Every puzzle prints as two pages: the puzzle with numbered clues on page one and a full answer key, with the grid filled in, on page two.

Can I sell crossword books I make with a generator?

The free tool makes one puzzle at a time for personal and classroom use. To make a book you can sell on Amazon KDP, our Publisher Studio drafts a whole clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles, at any KDP trim size, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior PDF and a matching answer-key PDF.

What size are the pages?

The free tool prints at 8.25 by 11 inches, a large-print page, with clue type set large for easy reading. In Publisher Studio you can export the same book at any KDP trim, from 5.06 by 7.81 up to 8.27 by 11.69, without regenerating.

Free tool

Free crossword generator, with an answer key

Type your answers and clues, press generate, and print a puzzle plus its answer key. No sign-up, no watermark. The same engine behind our Publisher Studio.

Puzzle title

Clues (one per line, as ANSWER: clue)

Difficulty

Harder grades use longer answers and give fewer crossing letters.

Grid size

Smaller grids print larger.

1 answer did not fit this grid and were left out: WOLF. Try a larger grid or an easier grade.

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.

Want the whole book?

This makes one puzzle. Sign up to build a full crossword book for Amazon KDP: describe a theme and the studio drafts an answer bank into hundreds of puzzles, as print-ready PDFs. We carry your title into the studio.

Build the full book

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Preview

The puzzle and its answer key, as they print.

Animals Crossword Medium

Across
1 Horse in black and white stripes
7 King of the jungle
8 Furry animal that hibernates
9 Huge grey animal with a trunk
10 Animal you can ride and saddle
Down
2 Long-eared hopper
3 Tree-swinging primate
4 Big striped cat
5 Tallest animal, with a very long neck
6 Bamboo-eating bear

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Animals Crossword · Answers Medium · Solution

Across
1 Horse in black and white stripes
7 King of the jungle
8 Furry animal that hibernates
9 Huge grey animal with a trunk
10 Animal you can ride and saddle
Down
2 Long-eared hopper
3 Tree-swinging primate
4 Big striped cat
5 Tallest animal, with a very long neck
6 Bamboo-eating bear

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How to make a crossword

1Type a title and your clues. Give the puzzle a title, then add one clue per line as ANSWER: clue. Each answer must be 3 to 13 letters.
2Generate the grid. Press Generate. Your answers interlock across and down in a large-print grid, numbered automatically, with the same engine our Publisher Studio uses.
3Print the two pages. Press Print. You get two pages: the puzzle with its clues on page one and a filled answer key on page two, sized for clean printing or a PDF.

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.

Publishing a whole book?

This tool makes one puzzle for home or the classroom. To make a crossword book you can sell on Amazon KDP, Publisher Studio drafts a clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes.

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Questions

Is this crossword generator free?: Yes. Type your answers and clues, generate a puzzle and print the puzzle plus its answer key, with no sign-up and no watermark. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
Does it include an answer key?: Yes. Every puzzle prints as two pages: the puzzle with numbered clues on page one and a full answer key, with the grid filled in, on page two.
Can I sell crossword books I make with a generator?: The free tool makes one puzzle at a time for personal and classroom use. To make a book you can sell on Amazon KDP, our Publisher Studio drafts a whole clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles, at any KDP trim size, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior PDF and a matching answer-key PDF.
What size are the pages?: The free tool prints at 8.25 by 11 inches, a large-print page, with clue type set large for easy reading. In Publisher Studio you can export the same book at any KDP trim, from 5.06 by 7.81 up to 8.27 by 11.69, without regenerating.

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