Free Printable Animals Crossword Puzzle
The broadest list in the library, pitched at early readers. Three-letter starters such as CAT, DOG, OWL and PIG sit beside harder names like CHIMPANZEE, CROCODILE and HEDGEHOG, so one theme stretches from preschool up through the early grades. Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 62 clues each time you press the button.
Animals Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 62-clue animals list.
What each size uses from the animals clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 55 animals answers of three to seven letters, such as BADGER, LION and ZEBRA. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 61 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 62 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are CHIMPANZEE, BUTTERFLY and CROCODILE.
A way to use the animals crossword
The clues describe animals instead of naming them ("Red-breasted songbird" is ROBIN), so you can read them aloud as a guessing game to children too young to write the answers in.
All 62 animals clues
- Striped-faced burrowing mammal
- Grizzly or polar animal
- Shaggy-humped plains grazer
- Baby dog
- Long-eared hopper
- Red-breasted songbird
- Farm's dawn crower
- Finned ocean predator
- Wool provider
- Famously slow tree dweller
- Slithering reptile
- Small brown songbird
- Bushy-tailed acorn hoarder
- Graceful long-necked water bird
- Striped big cat
- Thanksgiving bird
- Reptile that carries its shell
- Ocean giant that spouts
- Howling pack hunter
- Striped African equine
- Horned bovine of Africa and Asia
- Cuddly hopper, to a child
- Winged insect that was a caterpillar
- Cow's baby
- Humped desert animal
- Spotted sprinter of the savanna
- Farmyard bird that clucks
- Ape studied by Jane Goodall
- Toothy reptile of the Nile
- Playful marine mammal, like Flipper
- Braying beast of burden
- Quacking waterfowl
- Bald national bird of the U.S
- Trunked giant of Africa and Asia
- Peregrine, for one
- Croaking pond hopper
- Long-necked savanna browser
- Bearded farm animal that climbs
- Honking bird in a V formation
- Silverback, for one
- Cheek-stuffing pet on a wheel
- Spiny animal that curls into a ball
- Saddled galloper
- Spotted big cat of the Amazon
- Pouched Australian hopper
- Baby cat
- Eucalyptus-munching marsupial
- Young sheep
- Big-eyed primate of Madagascar
- Spotted cat that can't change its spots
- King of the jungle
- Small horse
- Tree-swinging primate with a tail
- Tiny rodent a cat chases
- Eight-armed sea creature
- Playful, sleek river swimmer
- Black-and-white bamboo eater
- Sleek black big cat
- Talkative tropical bird
- Bird that fans its tail feathers
- Tuxedoed flightless bird
- Cooing city park bird
Printing and the answer key
Print once with answers off, then press Answers and print again for the key. The PNG is rendered at 3× and the answer file saves under its own name. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
