Free Printable Christmas Crossword Puzzle
Covers both sides of December: the nativity (BETHLEHEM, MANGER, MAGI, MYRRH, FRANKINCENSE) and the festive side (GINGERBREAD, NUTCRACKER, MISTLETOE, EGGNOG, TINSEL). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 61 clues each time you press the button.
Christmas Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 61-clue christmas list.
What each size uses from the christmas clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 37 christmas answers of three to seven letters, such as ADVENT, MANGER and YULE. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 56 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 61 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are DECORATIONS, GINGERBREAD and NUTCRACKER.
A way to use the christmas crossword
At a family gathering, the hard size works as a team puzzle. Clues for POINSETTIA, PARTRIDGE and CHESTNUTS keep the adults guessing too.
All 61 christmas clues
- Countdown season before the holiday
- Winged figure atop many trees
- Ringers that jingle on a sleigh
- Town of the nativity
- Wax lights on an advent wreath
- Sweet treat in a striped cane
- Song sung door to door in December
- They roast on an open fire, in song
- Santa's way in
- Holiday when Santa comes
- Treats left out for Santa
- Tart red fruit in a holiday sauce
- Month of the holiday
- Tinsel, lights, and baubles
- Creamy holiday drink with nutmeg
- Fir or pine that keeps its needles
- Full of holiday cheer
- Dense, often-regifted holiday loaf
- Greenery strung along a mantel
- Wrapped boxes under the tree
- Spiced cookie shaped like a little man
- Festive day off work
- Prickly plant with red berries
- Sound sleigh bells make
- Like Old Saint Nick
- Strings of bulbs on the house
- Wise men who followed the star
- Feeding trough that served as a crib
- Festive fun and laughter
- Cheerful, as in a holiday greeting
- Spiced fruit filling for holiday pies
- Kiss under this sprig
- Resin gift of the wise men
- Scene with a manger and shepherds
- Christmas, in a carol title
- Ballet with a Sugar Plum Fairy
- Baubles hung on the tree
- Game bird in a famous carol's tree
- Candy cane flavor
- Red-leaved holiday plant
- What Santa leaves under the tree
- Flaming figgy dessert
- Santa's sleigh puller
- Feel great joy, as in a carol
- Bow material on a gift
- Jolly gift-bringer in red
- Flock-tenders who visited the manger
- Santa's flying ride
- Frosty, for one
- Tree topper the wise men followed
- They hang by the chimney with care
- Good news, in a carol
- Shiny strands draped on a tree
- What elves make in the workshop
- Fir decorated in the living room
- Roast bird at the holiday feast
- Where elves build toys
- Paper covering a present
- Ring of greenery on the front door
- Holiday, in short
- Old word for the holiday season
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.
