Free Printable New Year Crossword Puzzle
For the last days of December and the first school day of January. It covers the countdown (CONFETTI, MIDNIGHT, SPARKLER, FIREWORKS), resolutions (GOAL, HABIT, PLEDGE, VOW) and Lunar New Year words (DRAGON, LANTERN, ZODIAC). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 52 clues each time you press the button.
New Year Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 52-clue new year list.
What each size uses from the new year clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 31 new year answers of three to seven letters, such as BALLOON, HORN and ZODIAC. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 45 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 52 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are CELEBRATION, FIRECRACKER and MOTIVATION.
A way to use the new year crossword
Work it as a group on New Year's Eve while you wait for midnight. The clues mix party words with reflective ones such as RESOLUTION and RENEWAL.
All 52 new year clues
- Strong drive to succeed
- Inflated rubber decoration
- Fresh start
- Ringer struck at twelve
- Wall chart of the months ahead
- Joyful festivity
- Bubbly sparkling wine
- Word said as glasses clink
- Ring musically at the hour
- Timepiece striking twelve
- Paper bits tossed in the air
- Ten-to-one chant before the ball drops
- Move to the music
- Long beast of Lunar festivities
- Fond parting
- Lavish holiday meal
- Small popping explosive
- Rockets that light up the sky
- Wealth or fate
- Time yet to come
- Glamorous formal bash
- Aim set for the coming months
- Parting word
- Routine you vow to change
- Bright expectation for what's ahead
- Noisy festive blower
- Opening month
- Smooch at the stroke of twelve
- Glowing paper light of the Lunar festival
- Chance that favors you
- Stroke of twelve
- Drive to follow through
- Rattling festive toy
- Sunny outlook
- Marching procession with floats
- Festive gathering
- Solemn vow
- Vow to yourself
- Wealth and success
- Looking back on the past twelve months
- Fondly recall old times
- Restoration to freshness
- Vow to do better this time
- Ceremony done the same way each time
- Handheld stick that fizzes with light
- Long paper ribbon decoration
- Raised-glass tribute
- Custom handed down
- Greet warmly
- Heartfelt desire for what's ahead
- Twelve months
- Cycle of twelve animal signs
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.
