Free Printable Occupations Crossword Puzzle
For career-day weeks and early-years "people who help us" topics. The list spans familiar jobs (BAKER, NURSE, FARMER, PILOT) and less obvious ones (GEOLOGIST, AUDITOR, PUBLISHER, SCULPTOR). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 63 clues each time you press the button.
Occupations Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 63-clue occupations list.
What each size uses from the occupations clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 40 occupations answers of three to seven letters, such as ACTOR, GUIDE and WRITER. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 56 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 63 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are ELECTRICIAN, ACCOUNTANT and ASTRONOMER.
A way to use the occupations crossword
Each clue describes what the person does, so the crossword is a natural follow-up to a career-day talk. Older students can write a clue of their own for a job that is not on the list.
All 63 occupations clues
- Tax-season number cruncher
- Stage or screen performer
- Data examiner for a firm
- Drafter of building blueprints
- Painter or sculptor, say
- Star-gazing scientist
- Examiner of financial records
- Bread and pastry pro
- Loan-approving financier
- Hair cutter for men
- Scientist who studies living things
- Construction worker who erects houses
- Meat cutter and seller
- Woodworker with a saw
- Restaurant kitchen boss
- Scientist mixing compounds
- Office record keeper
- Sports team leader
- Hired expert giving advice
- Ballet performer
- Fashion or graphics creator
- Software coder
- Boss who yells Cut on a film set
- Physician with a stethoscope
- Taxi or bus operator
- Newspaper copy polisher
- Home wiring specialist
- Bridge or machine designer
- Crop grower with a tractor
- One who casts nets for a living
- Bouquet seller
- Tender of flower beds
- Rock-studying scientist
- Leader of a sightseeing tour
- Deer stalker with a rifle
- Building cleaner with a mop
- Ring and necklace seller
- News reporter
- Courtroom attorney
- Boss of a department
- Car repair pro
- Hospital caregiver in scrubs
- House or portrait brush wielder
- Scientist studying matter and energy
- Cockpit captain
- Leaky pipe fixer
- Sonnet composer
- Law enforcement officers
- Writer of computer code
- Company that issues books
- Whistle-blowing game official
- Ship's deckhand
- Lab researcher testing hypotheses
- Marble or clay carver
- Office assistant handling correspondence
- Concert vocalist
- Army enlistee
- Suit maker who takes measurements
- Classroom instructor
- Lab equipment specialist
- Gym fitness instructor
- Restaurant server
- Author of novels
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.
