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Your ideal partner in a game of articulate (5)
Bombay ___ (8)
He loves your ___ dumplings (8) ; Travelling Wilburys lyric
Name the farm where your children churned butter (7)
Bug infestation on flying mammals; a connected group of (one or more) electrochemical cells that store electric charges and generate direct current (DC) through the conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy (8)
What kind of bananahead is Clyde? (7)
What flower did you teach your children to fold out of a napkin? (4)
A chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to standard chairs, where the back legs and the uprights of the back are continuous (7)
The colouring of vision associated with a sudden movement downwards at speed (3-3)
A savoury snack of puffed corn; dried nasal mucus (5, 5)
What is Mischa's go-to insult? (6)
What kind of a bananahead is Mischa? (5)
An adjective for something amusing; your nickname for Asia (5)
Small creatures wot you made (11)
Your nickname at school (5)
Mummy: you think she's a silly one, she thinks she's a beautiful one (5)
What rodent does India's grumpy face best resemble? (3)
What colour does your middle child sometimes turn? (5)
What charging animal did you save India from when she was small? (3)
When attempting to order fries in Spain, what did we in fact order? (5, 7)
Another word for food (7)
Go for it, ___ (7)
What were you chopping when you cut the tip off your finger? (9)
While on holiday in St Abba, your hat flew off a cliff. What material was your hat made of? (5)
What was the name of the restaurant where you had your 30th birthday celebration? (4, 6)
What unusual ingredient did grandpa once add to his roast chicken? (6)
A pasta dish with a fizzy, water-based sauce, often served in Spain (4, 9)
Name one herb that none of your children have ever cooked with (4)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

Who is a crossword suitable for?

The fantastic thing about crosswords is, they are completely flexible for whatever age or reading level you need. You can use many words to create a complex crossword for adults, or just a couple of words for younger children.

Crosswords can use any word you like, big or small, so there are literally countless combinations that you can create for templates. It is easy to customise the template to the age or learning level of your students.

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How do I choose the clues for my crossword?

Once you’ve picked a theme, choose clues that match your students current difficulty level. For younger children, this may be as simple as a question of “What color is the sky?” with an answer of “blue”.

Are crosswords good for students?

Crosswords are a great exercise for students' problem solving and cognitive abilities. Not only do they need to solve a clue and think of the correct answer, but they also have to consider all of the other words in the crossword to make sure the words fit together.

Crosswords are great for building and using vocabulary.

If this is your first time using a crossword with your students, you could create a crossword FAQ template for them to give them the basic instructions.

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Can I create crosswords in other languages?

Crosswords are a fantastic resource for students learning a foreign language as they test their reading, comprehension and writing all at the same time. When learning a new language, this type of test using multiple different skills is great to solidify students' learning.

We have full support for crossword templates in languages such as Spanish, French and Japanese with diacritics including over 100,000 images, so you can create an entire crossword in your target language including all of the titles, and clues.