Free Printable Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle
Made for the long stretch between arriving and eating on the fourth Thursday of November. It covers the meal (STUFFING, CRANBERRY, GRAVY, DRUMSTICK), the history (PILGRIM, MAYFLOWER, MAIZE) and the day itself (PARADE, FOOTBALL, GRANDPARENTS). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 48 clues each time you press the button.
Thanksgiving Crossword
Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 48-clue thanksgiving list.
What each size uses from the thanksgiving clues
Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 29 thanksgiving answers of three to seven letters, such as AUTUMN, GRAVY and TURKEY. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 47 answers of up to nine letters.
Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 48 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are CORNUCOPIA, ABUNDANCE and CASSEROLE.
A way to use the thanksgiving crossword
Hand the crossword to the older cousins as a team challenge before dinner. Clues about the PILGRIM voyage and the MAYFLOWER sit beside kitchen answers like BASTE and GIBLETS.
All 48 thanksgiving clues
- Plenty on the holiday table
- Fall, the season of the feast
- Spoon juices over the bird
- Green veggies in a classic casserole
- What one counts when thankful
- Slice the bird at the table
- Baked green bean dish
- Pressed-apple drink served warm
- Pie spice from tree bark
- Spice studded into a ham
- Horn of plenty
- Tart red fruit in a jellied sauce
- Pumpkin pie course
- Main holiday meal
- Turkey leg
- Relatives gathered around the table
- Lavish holiday spread
- Sport watched after the meal
- Assembly of loved ones
- Organ bits used for gravy
- Turkey's call
- Decorative hard-shelled squash relative
- Short prayer before eating
- Feeling of thankfulness
- Brown sauce for potatoes
- Crop gathering the holiday celebrates
- Next-day turkey sandwich makings
- Corn, to the Pilgrims
- Pilgrims' ship
- Month of the holiday
- Spice grated over eggnog
- Macy's morning procession
- Nut in a Southern pie
- Plymouth settler with a buckled hat
- Mashed side dish spuds
- Words said with heads bowed
- Orange gourd baked into pie
- Aunts, uncles and cousins
- Cook the bird in the oven
- Warm bread on the table
- Herb in traditional stuffing
- Butternut, for one
- Bread mix cooked inside the bird
- Where the feast is spread
- Full of gratitude
- All the side dishes with the turkey
- Bird at the center of the meal
- Forked part snapped for luck
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.
