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Bugs crossword

Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.

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Bugs123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Shed an outgrown outer skin
  • 2 Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing
  • 5 Bustling home for honeybees
  • 6 Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  • 8 Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  • 10 Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  • 12 Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  • 15 Middle body section where the legs attach

Down

  • 1 Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  • 3 Tough armor worn on the outside
  • 4 Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  • 7 Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  • 9 Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  • 11 Plump larva found in soil
  • 13 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth
  • 14 Big buzzing crowd on the move

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Bugs1MOLTA2ANT3ENNATXIOSS4WKE5HIVE6CRI7CKETLHV8CATER9PILLARITOYLOLS10DRA11GONFLYARE12LADY13BUGUNIE14SBSEW15THORAXLREM
  1. 1 across: MOLT. Shed an outgrown outer skin
  2. 1 down: MANTIS. Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  3. 2 across: ANTENNA. Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing
  4. 3 down: EXOSKELETON. Tough armor worn on the outside
  5. 4 down: WEEVIL. Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  6. 5 across: HIVE. Bustling home for honeybees
  7. 6 across: CRICKET. Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  8. 7 down: CHRYSALIS. Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  9. 8 across: CATERPILLAR. Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  10. 9 down: POLLEN. Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  11. 10 across: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  12. 11 down: GRUB. Plump larva found in soil
  13. 12 across: LADYBUG. Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  14. 13 down: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth
  15. 14 down: SWARM. Big buzzing crowd on the move
  16. 15 across: THORAX. Middle body section where the legs attach
Bugs1234567891011121314

Across

  • 1 Shed an outgrown outer skin
  • 3 Big buzzing crowd on the move
  • 5 Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  • 7 Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  • 9 Bustling home for honeybees
  • 11 Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  • 12 Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  • 14 Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing

Down

  • 2 Middle body section where the legs attach
  • 4 Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  • 6 Tough armor worn on the outside
  • 7 Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  • 8 Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  • 10 Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  • 13 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth

Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

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Bugs1MOL2T3SWAR4MHA5POLL6ENNRX7CRICKETAOHI8WXSRS9HIVEKYE10DESV11CATERPILLARIAEL12LADY13BUGTIEOOS14ANTENNANTFLLEY
  1. 1 across: MOLT. Shed an outgrown outer skin
  2. 2 down: THORAX. Middle body section where the legs attach
  3. 3 across: SWARM. Big buzzing crowd on the move
  4. 4 down: MANTIS. Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  5. 5 across: POLLEN. Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  6. 6 down: EXOSKELETON. Tough armor worn on the outside
  7. 7 across: CRICKET. Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  8. 7 down: CHRYSALIS. Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  9. 8 down: WEEVIL. Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  10. 9 across: HIVE. Bustling home for honeybees
  11. 10 down: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  12. 11 across: CATERPILLAR. Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  13. 12 across: LADYBUG. Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  14. 13 down: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth
  15. 14 across: ANTENNA. Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing
Bugs123456789101112131415

Across

  • 3 Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  • 6 Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  • 7 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth
  • 10 Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  • 13 Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  • 14 Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  • 15 Plump larva found in soil

Down

  • 1 Shed an outgrown outer skin
  • 2 Bustling home for honeybees
  • 4 Tough armor worn on the outside
  • 5 Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  • 8 Middle body section where the legs attach
  • 9 Big buzzing crowd on the move
  • 10 Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  • 11 Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  • 12 Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Bugs1MO2HL3CRICK4ET5WVXEE6POLLENSVKI7BEE8TLE9SLHWEOA10CATERPI11LLARHOAAM12ARNXD13DRAGONFLYYTSBE14MANTISUNL15GRUBNIAS
  1. 1 down: MOLT. Shed an outgrown outer skin
  2. 2 down: HIVE. Bustling home for honeybees
  3. 3 across: CRICKET. Chirping hopper heard on summer nights
  4. 4 down: EXOSKELETON. Tough armor worn on the outside
  5. 5 down: WEEVIL. Snouted beetle notorious in cotton fields
  6. 6 across: POLLEN. Powder bees carry from bloom to bloom
  7. 7 across: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest on Earth
  8. 8 down: THORAX. Middle body section where the legs attach
  9. 9 down: SWARM. Big buzzing crowd on the move
  10. 10 across: CATERPILLAR. Munching youngster that will become a moth or butterfly
  11. 10 down: CHRYSALIS. Hard case a butterfly forms before emerging
  12. 11 down: LADYBUG. Red beetle with black spots, a gardener's friend
  13. 12 down: ANTENNA. Feeler on an insect's head used for sensing
  14. 13 across: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, seen near ponds
  15. 14 across: MANTIS. Predator that holds its front legs as if praying
  16. 15 across: GRUB. Plump larva found in soil

About Bugs

Insects wear their skeletons on the outside, which means growing requires shedding: a caterpillar splits its old covering several times before it ever forms a chrysalis. An insect body divides into head, thorax, and abdomen, with six legs and usually two pairs of wings attached to that middle section. Antennae handle smell and touch. This crossword pulls together anatomy, life stages, and familiar species, from the beetle order (the largest group of animals on Earth) to dragonflies and mantises.

Reach for this alongside a life cycle or metamorphosis unit, or after a bug hunt in the schoolyard when students want names for what they found.

What is in this crossword

A 22 by 19 crossword with 8 across and 8 down, on the subject of Bugs.

Grid
22 x 19
Across
8
Down
8
Longest answer
EXOSKELETON (11 letters)

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