Free Printable Cooking Crossword Puzzle
Ready to print right now, with an answer key. Written clues, three grid sizes, a 62-clue cooking list behind it, and a new layout every time you press the button. No account, nothing to install.
Cooking Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 62-clue cooking list.
Every clue in the cooking list
The puzzle above draws from these 62 clued cooking words each time you press New puzzle — a different subset and layout every time, always from this same list.
- Small dish before the main course
- Garment that keeps splatters off clothes
- Cook in a dry oven
- Outdoor cookout with smoky sauce
- Liquid mix for pancakes
- Cook in bubbling water
- Brown, then stew slowly in liquid
- Crushed loaf bit used for coating
- Churned spread for toast
- Cook sugar until golden brown
- Baked dish cooked in one deep pot
- Head cook in a restaurant
- Cut into small pieces
- Heavy blade for cutting through bone
- Bowl with holes for draining pasta
- Ketchup or mustard, for example
- Collection of recipes in print
- Style of cooking, as French
- Relating to the kitchen arts
- Soft mass that becomes bread
- Ground grain for baking
- Parsley sprig added for looks
- Flat pan for pancakes
- Cook over open flames on a grate
- Any item on a recipe's list
- Whistling pot for boiling water
- Room where meals are made
- Work dough with the hands
- Blade for slicing
- Deep spoon for serving soup
- Soaking sauce that flavors meat
- Creamy egg-and-oil spread
- Quick-heating countertop oven
- Enclosed box for baking
- Grinding tool used with a mortar
- Cook gently in simmering liquid
- Warm the oven before baking
- Set of cooking instructions
- Keep cold to stay fresh
- Cook uncovered in oven heat
- Turning spit for cooking meat
- Deep pot with a long handle
- Fry quickly in a little fat
- Brown meat fast over high heat
- Salt, pepper, or herbs
- Solid fat used in pastry
- Cook just below a boil
- Stick for holding kebab pieces
- Frying pan
- Cut into thin pieces
- Flat tool for flipping pancakes
- Cook over boiling water's vapor
- Mix with a spoon
- Appliance with burners on top
- Mesh tool that separates solids from liquid
- Large measuring unit for cooking
- Pound meat to make it softer
- Gauge for checking meat's temperature
- Pincer tool for gripping food
- Oil-and-vinegar salad dressing
- Wire tool for beating eggs
- Grated citrus peel
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
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