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Dinosaurs123456789101112131415

Across

  • 2 Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  • 3 Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  • 4 Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  • 8 Last period before the great die-off
  • 10 Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  • 12 Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects
  • 13 Long balancing end of a walking giant
  • 14 Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings
  • 15 Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger

Down

  • 1 Animal that eats only plants
  • 5 Plated back and a spiked tail
  • 6 Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  • 7 Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  • 9 Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king
  • 11 No longer living anywhere on Earth

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Dinosaurs1HE2RAPTORB3FOSSILVO4TRICERATOP5S6M7SETEK8CRE9TACEOUSERGOLEOZEXSOT10CARNIVOR11EUCNX12AMBER13TAILUI14EGGSN15CLAWT
  1. 1 down: HERBIVORE. Animal that eats only plants
  2. 2 across: RAPTOR. Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  3. 3 across: FOSSIL. Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  4. 4 across: TRICERATOPS. Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  5. 5 down: STEGOSAURUS. Plated back and a spiked tail
  6. 6 down: MESOZOIC. Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  7. 7 down: SKELETON. Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  8. 8 across: CRETACEOUS. Last period before the great die-off
  9. 9 down: TREX. Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king
  10. 10 across: CARNIVORE. Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  11. 11 down: EXTINCT. No longer living anywhere on Earth
  12. 12 across: AMBER. Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects
  13. 13 across: TAIL. Long balancing end of a walking giant
  14. 14 across: EGGS. Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings
  15. 15 across: CLAW. Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger
Dinosaurs123456789101112131415

Across

  • 5 Last period before the great die-off
  • 6 Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects
  • 8 Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  • 12 Animal that eats only plants
  • 13 Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings
  • 14 No longer living anywhere on Earth

Down

  • 1 Plated back and a spiked tail
  • 2 Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger
  • 3 Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  • 4 Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  • 7 Long balancing end of a walking giant
  • 9 Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  • 10 Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  • 11 Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  • 15 Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king

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Dinosaurs1S2C3FTLO4R5CRETACEOUS6AMBERGWSP7TOI8TRI9CERATOPS10MLOAIAE11SRRLUSKN12HERBIVOREIUZLVSO13EGGSOITRCO14EX15TINCTNREX
  1. 1 down: STEGOSAURUS. Plated back and a spiked tail
  2. 2 down: CLAW. Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger
  3. 3 down: FOSSIL. Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  4. 4 down: RAPTOR. Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  5. 5 across: CRETACEOUS. Last period before the great die-off
  6. 6 across: AMBER. Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects
  7. 7 down: TAIL. Long balancing end of a walking giant
  8. 8 across: TRICERATOPS. Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  9. 9 down: CARNIVORE. Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  10. 10 down: MESOZOIC. Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  11. 11 down: SKELETON. Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  12. 12 across: HERBIVORE. Animal that eats only plants
  13. 13 across: EGGS. Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings
  14. 14 across: EXTINCT. No longer living anywhere on Earth
  15. 15 down: TREX. Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king
Dinosaurs123456789101112131415

Across

  • 3 Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  • 4 Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  • 7 Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  • 10 Long balancing end of a walking giant
  • 12 No longer living anywhere on Earth
  • 13 Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king
  • 14 Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  • 15 Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings

Down

  • 1 Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  • 2 Animal that eats only plants
  • 5 Plated back and a spiked tail
  • 6 Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger
  • 8 Last period before the great die-off
  • 9 Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  • 11 Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects

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
Dinosaurs1C2HAE3RAPTORRNBI4FO5SSILIVTVO6CEORLG7TRI8CERATOP9SERWSK10T11AILEAEMTULBARE12EXTINCTU13TREXRESO14MESOZOICNU15EGGS
  1. 1 down: CARNIVORE. Meat eater at the top of the food chain
  2. 2 down: HERBIVORE. Animal that eats only plants
  3. 3 across: RAPTOR. Swift pack hunter with a sickle claw on each foot
  4. 4 across: FOSSIL. Bone turned to stone over millions of years
  5. 5 down: STEGOSAURUS. Plated back and a spiked tail
  6. 6 down: CLAW. Sharp curved tool on a toe or finger
  7. 7 across: TRICERATOPS. Three-horned plant eater with a bony neck frill
  8. 8 down: CRETACEOUS. Last period before the great die-off
  9. 9 down: SKELETON. Full set of bones mounted in a museum hall
  10. 10 across: TAIL. Long balancing end of a walking giant
  11. 11 down: AMBER. Hardened tree resin that traps ancient insects
  12. 12 across: EXTINCT. No longer living anywhere on Earth
  13. 13 across: TREX. Fierce hunter whose name is short for a tyrant lizard king
  14. 14 across: MESOZOIC. Era divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous
  15. 15 across: EGGS. Nest contents that hatched into hatchlings

About Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs ruled the Mesozoic Era for roughly 165 million years, far longer than mammals have existed. Paleontologists sort them by diet: a herbivore like Stegosaurus stripped plants, while a carnivore hunted. Much of what anyone knows comes from bones turned to stone, from nests of fossilized eggs, and from insects trapped in amber. The great extinction at the close of the Cretaceous cleared the way for other animals, though birds descend from small feathered theropods and are living dinosaurs today.

Reach for this in an elementary science unit on fossils, or on a rainy afternoon with a young dinosaur enthusiast who already knows how to spell Triceratops.

What is in this crossword

A 25 by 20 crossword with 9 across and 6 down, on the subject of Dinosaurs.

Grid
25 x 20
Across
9
Down
6
Longest answer
TRICERATOPS (11 letters)

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