Free Printable Teaching Crossword Puzzle

Ready to print right now, with an answer key. Written clues, three grid sizes, a 63-clue teaching list behind it, and a new layout every time you press the button. No account, nothing to install.

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Every clue in the teaching list

The puzzle above draws from these 63 clued teaching words each time you press New puzzle — a different subset and layout every time, always from this same list.

  1. Adding and subtracting basics
  2. Task handed out to pupils
  3. Roll call record
  4. Ringer that ends a period
  5. Document proving course completion
  6. Blackboard writing stick
  7. Subject with beakers and elements
  8. Peer in the same homeroom
  9. Where lessons take place
  10. Team trainer with a whistle
  11. Semester-long class offering
  12. Full program of studies
  13. Head of a college faculty
  14. Pupil's seat with a writing surface
  15. Alphabetical book of word meanings
  16. Sheepskin handed out at commencement
  17. Schooling in general
  18. Schoolteacher, more formally
  19. Rubber for removing pencil marks
  20. Written composition assignment
  21. Big end-of-term test
  22. Paste for craft projects
  23. Letter on a report card
  24. Cap-and-gown ceremony
  25. Neon marker for key passages
  26. After-school assignments
  27. What you gain by studying
  28. Acquiring knowledge
  29. Professor's hour-long talk
  30. Single unit of instruction
  31. Room full of borrowable books
  32. Felt-tip pen for a whiteboard
  33. Numbers subject, for short
  34. Trusted guide and adviser
  35. Spiral-bound pad for jotting
  36. Jottings taken during a lecture
  37. Loose-leaf sheets
  38. Number two writing tool
  39. Head of a school
  40. College lecturer with tenure
  41. Young learner in class
  42. Query at the end of a chapter
  43. Short pop test
  44. Skill built with phonics
  45. Playground break
  46. Straightedge with inch marks
  47. Merit-based tuition award
  48. Place of learning
  49. Lab-based subject
  50. Points earned on a test
  51. Write out letter by letter
  52. One enrolled in classes
  53. Hit the books
  54. Classroom instructor
  55. Instructing as a profession
  56. Semester or trimester
  57. Graded assessment
  58. Assigned reading volume
  59. Private one-on-one instructor
  60. Stock of words one knows
  61. Dry-erase surface
  62. Fill-in-the-blanks handout
  63. Composing sentences on paper

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.

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