Free Printable Spring Crossword Puzzle
Built around new life from March to May: baby animals (DUCKLING, FOAL, TADPOLE, FLEDGLING), flowers (CROCUS, SNOWDROP, MAGNOLIA, BLUEBELL) and spring weather (DRIZZLE, SHOWER, THAW). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 61 clues each time you press the button.
Spring Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 61-clue spring list.
What each size uses from the spring clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 35 spring answers of three to seven letters, such as APRIL, MARCH and TULIP. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 55 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 61 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are CATERPILLAR, HUMMINGBIRD and WHEELBARROW.
A way to use the spring crossword
Pair it with a life-cycle lesson. Clues for CATERPILLAR, CHRYSALIS and BUTTERFLY follow one creature from start to finish.
All 61 spring clues
- Newborn horse
- Month known for showers
- Backyard box for nesting
- Dawn chorus from the trees
- Come into flower
- Cherry tree's pink flowering
- Woodland flower with drooping heads
- Fuzzy buzzing pollinator
- Hopping Easter mascot
- Yellow meadow flower with glossy petals
- Winged insect from a chrysalis
- Crawler that becomes a butterfly
- Newly hatched bird
- Pupa case of a butterfly
- Early purple bloom that pokes through snow
- Yellow trumpet flower
- White petals around a yellow center
- Weed with a puffball of seeds
- Light, fine rain
- Fluffy pond baby
- Egg-hunt holiday
- When day and night are equal
- Young bird just leaving the nest
- Pond hopper that was a tadpole
- Plot for growing flowers
- Sprout from a seed
- Glass building for raising plants
- Creature just out of its egg
- Tiny hovering nectar sipper
- Fragrant spring bulb with dense spikes
- Windy-day flyer on a string
- Spotted red beetle
- Newborn sheep
- Fragrant purple shrub blossom
- Tree with big pink or white blooms
- Month after February
- Birds' seasonal return north
- Sweet liquid bees gather
- Twig home for eggs
- Grove of fruit trees
- Colorful part of a flower
- Put seeds in the ground
- Yellow dust that makes you sneeze
- Fertilize a flower, as bees do
- Pale yellow early bloomer
- Small pool after rain
- Showers from clouds
- Red-breasted harbinger of spring
- Young tree
- Tiny thing you sow
- Brief spring rainfall
- Tiny white bloom seen before winter ends
- Dirt that seeds grow in
- Season of new growth
- Push up, as a new shoot
- Frog's swimming larva
- Melt after the freeze
- Cup-shaped bulb flower from Holland
- Rainy-day canopy
- Gardener's pushcart
- Meadow bloom no one planted
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.
