Free Printable Halloween Crossword Puzzle
Leans spooky rather than cute. Next to PUMPKIN, CANDY and COSTUME there are words like POLTERGEIST, SARCOPHAGUS and MAUSOLEUM, which makes it a better fit for older kids and adults than most Halloween sheets. Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 57 clues each time you press the button.
Halloween Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 57-clue halloween list.
What each size uses from the halloween clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 40 halloween answers of three to seven letters, such as BANSHEE, HORROR and ZOMBIE. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 51 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 57 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are GRAVEDIGGER, INCANTATION and POLTERGEIST.
A way to use the halloween crossword
Read the clues by flashlight at a sleepover. The answers include GHOUL, BANSHEE, CAULDRON and WEREWOLF.
All 57 halloween clues
- Ghostly figure that suddenly appears
- Wailing spirit whose cry foretells death
- Skeleton's makeup
- Witch's ride
- Trick-or-treater's haul
- Witch's bubbling pot
- Where the graves are
- Dusty spider's net in a haunted corner
- Box for a corpse
- Body in the coffin
- Trick-or-treater's outfit
- Gathering of witches
- Giving you the shivers
- Underground burial chamber
- Evil spirit from below
- Horned one with a pitchfork
- Strangely unsettling
- Vampire's pointed tooth
- Sheet-draped spook
- Grave-robbing fiend of legend
- Ugly, mischievous little creature
- One who shovels out a burial plot
- Cemetery with headstones
- Trick-or-treating holiday
- Like a house full of ghosts
- Movie genre full of screams
- Words chanted to cast a spell
- Glowing light carried on a dark night
- Face covering for a costume
- Grand tomb building
- Witching hour
- Creature hiding under the bed
- Bandage-wrapped tomb dweller
- Terrifying dream
- Beyond scientific explanation, like ghosts
- Ghost, by another name
- Noisy spirit that throws things
- Witch's brewed drink
- Gourd carved into a jack-o'-lantern
- Grim scythe carrier
- Stone coffin of a pharaoh
- Straw-stuffed figure standing in a cornfield
- Shriek of terror
- Rattling set of bones
- Bony head of a skeleton
- Witch's magic words
- Eight-legged web weaver
- Eerie and scary
- Grave marker
- Candy handed out at the door
- Prank threatened if no candy is given
- Like zombies and vampires
- Blood-sucking count
- Man who turns beastly at the full moon
- Broom-riding spell caster
- Robed magician with a staff
- Shambling walking corpse
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.
