Free Printable Insects Crossword Puzzle
Ready to print right now, with an answer key. Written clues, three grid sizes, a 63-clue insects list behind it, and a new layout every time you press the button. No account, nothing to install.
Insects Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 63-clue insects list.
Every clue in the insects list
The puzzle above draws from these 63 clued insects words each time you press New puzzle — a different subset and layout every time, always from this same list.
- Rear body segment of a bug
- Feeler on a bug's head
- Mound over an ant colony
- Tiny sap-sucking garden pest
- Mattress-dwelling biter
- Hard-shelled bug like a ladybird
- Fuzzy, round pollinator
- Monarch or swallowtail
- Bee's sound
- Larva that becomes a moth
- Cricket's sound
- Hard case of a pupating monarch
- Loud summer buzzer that emerges in broods
- Kitchen pest that scurries from light
- Silky case spun by a larva
- Community of ants or bees
- Chirping hopper
- Slender cousin of the dragonfly
- Darting pond insect with four wings
- Male bee
- Bug with pincers on its rear
- Study of insects
- Bug's hard outer shell
- Glowing bug of summer nights
- Tiny jumper that bites dogs
- Tiny flier in a cloud
- Long-legged leaper in a meadow
- Beetle larva
- Emerge from an egg
- Bee colony's home
- Waxy hexagonal cells
- Large stinging wasp
- Biting pest of barns and stables
- Six-legged creature
- Red beetle with black spots
- Grub or caterpillar stage
- Tiny jumping sap-sucker on plants
- Swarming crop-devouring grasshopper
- Head-clinging nit layer
- Fly larva
- Bug's biting jaw
- Praying predator
- Short-lived insect of spring streams
- Tiny biting fly in a cloud
- Shed an exoskeleton
- Whining bloodsucker
- Nocturnal cousin of the butterfly
- Sweet flower liquid bees collect
- Young dragonfly stage
- Yellow dust bees carry
- Bee, from a flower's perspective
- Butterfly's straw-like mouthpart
- Stage between larva and adult
- Hive's egg-laying ruler
- Caterpillar that spins fine thread
- Wasp's painful jab
- Butterfly with forked hind wings
- Buzzing mass of bees
- Wood-eating pest
- Middle body segment where wings attach
- Yellow-and-black stinger
- Snouted beetle in the flour
- Fly's flapper
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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