Free Printable Autumn Crossword Puzzle
A fall list for September through November: leaves and harvest (MAPLE, FOLIAGE, ORCHARD, BUSHEL), food (CIDER, PECAN, BUTTERNUT) and the calendar (EQUINOX, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 49 clues each time you press the button.
Autumn Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 49-clue autumn list.
What each size uses from the autumn clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 31 autumn answers of three to seven letters, such as ACORN, HARVEST and WALNUT. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 48 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 49 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are CORNUCOPIA, BUTTERNUT and CORNSTALK.
A way to use the autumn crossword
The clues reward people who know the season well. GOLDENROD, CORNSTALK and TOADSTOOL make the hard size a fair puzzle for adults.
All 49 autumn clues
- Oak's nut
- Golden-orange hue of turning leaves
- Orchard fruit for picking
- Season of falling leaves
- Big outdoor blaze on a chilly night
- Farm measure of apples
- Tan squash with a bulbous end
- Nut roasted on an open fire
- Hot mulled apple drink
- Warm spice in pumpkin pie
- Dried maize stem in fall decor
- Horn of plenty
- Tart red bog fruit for a holiday sauce
- Deep red, bordering on purple
- Farmer's field yield
- Like trees that shed their leaves
- Day when night and day are equal
- Autumn, to Americans
- Soft plaid shirt fabric
- Leaf-peepers' colorful draw
- Honkers flying south in a V
- Yellow roadside bloomer of late summer
- Hard-shelled harvest table decoration
- Trick-or-treat night
- Gathering of ripe crops
- Wagon trip on bales at a farm
- Pile a needle might hide in
- Jack-o'- follower
- Tree part that turns color and drops
- Tree with a leaf on Canada's flag
- Fungus popping up in damp woods
- Thanksgiving's month
- Grated spice in eggnog and pie
- Halloween's month
- Apple-picking grove
- Nut in a Southern pie
- Scaly seed holder gathered for wreaths
- Farmer's pronged hay tool
- Orange gourd for carving
- Tool for gathering leaves
- Straw-stuffed field guardian
- Neck warmer on a brisk day
- Bright red, like some turning leaves
- Month of the fall equinox
- Acorn or butternut, e.g
- Acorn-burying bushy-tailed critter
- Knit pullover for chilly days
- Poisonous fairy-tale fungus
- Wrinkled nut in a hard shell
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.
