Free Printable Animals Crossword Puzzle
Ready to print right now, with an answer key. Written clues, three grid sizes, a 62-clue animals list behind it, and a new layout every time you press the button. No account, nothing to install.
Animals Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 62-clue animals list.
Every clue in the animals list
The puzzle above draws from these 62 clued animals words each time you press New puzzle — a different subset and layout every time, always from this same list.
- 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
Which size to print
Easy lays 8 clues into an 11 × 11 grid, using words of three to seven letters. Medium is 13 × 13 with 12 clues and words up to nine letters. Hard is 15 × 15 with 16 clues and words from four to eleven letters, which is where the crossings start doing real work. The generator places longest words first and only keeps a layout where every word crosses at least one other, so a puzzle that comes out with fewer clues than the label promises simply ran out of words that fit — it is still a complete, connected crossword.
Printing it well
Print puts the grid and both clue lists on one sheet with the controls hidden. Print once with answers off, then press Answers and print again for the filled grid — that order gives you a clean puzzle and a separate key. The PNG is rendered at three times screen size and the answer file saves under its own name, so the two never get mixed up.
Using these in a book you sell
Puzzles generated here are yours to use, including in a book you publish. What this page will not do is build the book: a paperback needs dozens of puzzles at a fixed trim size with paired solution pages and consistent margins. KDP Creator does that part — and hands back numbered 300-DPI PNG pages plus a manifest, not a finished PDF, so you assemble the interior yourself. The royalty calculator prices it before you commit.
