Free Printable Winter Crossword Puzzle

A cold-weather list for December through February: snow words (BLIZZARD, SNOWDRIFT, FLURRIES, WHITEOUT), winter sports (LUGE, CURLING, TOBOGGAN) and staying warm (EARMUFFS, PARKA, COCOA). Written clues and an answer grid, with a new layout from the same 60 clues each time you press the button.

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Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is laid out fresh in your browser from the 60-clue winter list.

What each size uses from the winter clues

Easy fills an 11 × 11 grid with 8 clues chosen from the 33 winter answers of three to seven letters, such as ARCTIC, POLAR and WOOL. Medium places 12 clues on 13 × 13 from 55 answers of up to nine letters.

Hard puts 16 clues on 15 × 15, drawn from 60 answers of four to eleven letters; the longest it can use are HIBERNATION, HYPOTHERMIA and ANTIFREEZE.

A way to use the winter crossword

Clues on winter sports and weather, LUGE and CURLING and HYPOTHERMIA among them, make it a timely puzzle while the winter sports season is on television.

All 60 winter clues

  1. Radiator fluid that won't turn to ice
  2. Like the frozen far north
  3. Mountainside snow slide
  4. Blinding snowstorm
  5. Footwear for trudging through snow
  6. Skier's ride up the slope
  7. Heavy outer garment
  8. Hot chocolate drink
  9. Like the air in January
  10. Ice sport with brooms and stones
  11. Month when Christmas falls
  12. Fluffy pads worn over the ears
  13. Tree that keeps its needles all year
  14. Month with Valentine's Day
  15. Hearth where logs burn
  16. Logs for the hearth
  17. Soft, warm synthetic fabric
  18. Light snow showers
  19. Cold enough to make ice
  20. Injury to skin from extreme cold
  21. Turned to ice
  22. Hand coverings with fingers
  23. Bear's long winter sleep
  24. Ice sport with sticks and goalies
  25. Dangerous drop in body heat
  26. Frozen spike hanging from a roof
  27. Dome-shaped house of snow blocks
  28. Month that starts the year
  29. Feet-first Olympic sliding event
  30. Thumb-only hand warmers
  31. Hooded winter jacket
  32. Like the North or South Pole
  33. Disk hit by hockey sticks
  34. Ice arena for skaters
  35. Neck wrap for chilly days
  36. Trembling from the cold
  37. Tool for clearing a snowy driveway
  38. Glide across the ice on blades
  39. Kid's ride down a snowy hill
  40. Icy rain mix
  41. Horse-drawn ride over the snow
  42. Half-melted snow
  43. Packed handful thrown in a fight
  44. One-plank ride down a ski slope
  45. Wind-piled bank of white
  46. Unique six-sided crystal
  47. Figure with a carrot nose
  48. Motorized sled with skis
  49. Footwear that keeps you atop deep drifts
  50. Heavy fall of flakes with wind
  51. Blanketed in white flakes
  52. Bitterly cold, as a negative reading
  53. Knitted pullover
  54. Springtime melt
  55. Long, flat sled without runners
  56. Sweater with a high, snug collar
  57. Blizzard so thick you can't see
  58. Factor that makes cold feel colder
  59. Coldest season
  60. Sheep's fleece spun into yarn

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.

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