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Emotions crossword
Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Across
- 4 Heart's strongest attachment
- 5 Glow after a job well done
- 6 Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 8 Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 9 Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 10 Low mood that may bring tears
- 13 Belief that better days are coming
- 14 Great happiness in three letters
- 15 What courage overcomes
Down
- 1 Reaction to an unexpected party
- 2 Ache of having no company
- 3 Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 7 Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 11 Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
- 12 Sinking feeling after doing wrong
Print the page above, or take the easy grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
Show the answer key
- 1 down: SURPRISE. Reaction to an unexpected party
- 2 down: LONELINESS. Ache of having no company
- 3 down: ANGER. Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 4 across: LOVE. Heart's strongest attachment
- 5 across: PRIDE. Glow after a job well done
- 6 across: DISGUST. Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 7 down: GUILT. Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 8 across: GRATITUDE. Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 9 across: EXCITEMENT. Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 10 across: SADNESS. Low mood that may bring tears
- 11 down: ENVY. Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
- 12 down: SHAME. Sinking feeling after doing wrong
- 13 across: HOPE. Belief that better days are coming
- 14 across: JOY. Great happiness in three letters
- 15 across: FEAR. What courage overcomes
Across
- 1 Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 3 Peaceful state after the storm
- 10 Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 11 Sinking feeling after doing wrong
- 12 Belief that better days are coming
- 13 Glow after a job well done
- 14 Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 16 Low mood that may bring tears
Down
- 2 Ache of having no company
- 4 Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 5 Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 6 Reaction to an unexpected party
- 7 Heart's strongest attachment
- 8 What courage overcomes
- 9 Great happiness in three letters
- 15 Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
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.
Show the answer key
- 1 across: GUILT. Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 2 down: LONELINESS. Ache of having no company
- 3 across: CALM. Peaceful state after the storm
- 4 down: ANGER. Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 5 down: DISGUST. Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 6 down: SURPRISE. Reaction to an unexpected party
- 7 down: LOVE. Heart's strongest attachment
- 8 down: FEAR. What courage overcomes
- 9 down: JOY. Great happiness in three letters
- 10 across: GRATITUDE. Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 11 across: SHAME. Sinking feeling after doing wrong
- 12 across: HOPE. Belief that better days are coming
- 13 across: PRIDE. Glow after a job well done
- 14 across: EXCITEMENT. Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 15 down: ENVY. Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
- 16 across: SADNESS. Low mood that may bring tears
Across
- 1 Belief that better days are coming
- 4 Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 10 Heart's strongest attachment
- 11 Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 12 Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 13 Low mood that may bring tears
- 14 What courage overcomes
Down
- 2 Glow after a job well done
- 3 Peaceful state after the storm
- 5 Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 6 Reaction to an unexpected party
- 7 Ache of having no company
- 8 Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 9 Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
- 13 Sinking feeling after doing wrong
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
- 1 across: HOPE. Belief that better days are coming
- 2 down: PRIDE. Glow after a job well done
- 3 down: CALM. Peaceful state after the storm
- 4 across: ANGER. Hot feeling that makes fists clench
- 5 down: GRATITUDE. Thankful feeling for a kindness
- 6 down: SURPRISE. Reaction to an unexpected party
- 7 down: LONELINESS. Ache of having no company
- 8 down: GUILT. Nagging sense of having done wrong
- 9 down: ENVY. Green-eyed feeling about another's luck
- 10 across: LOVE. Heart's strongest attachment
- 11 across: DISGUST. Feeling shown by a wrinkled nose
- 12 across: EXCITEMENT. Buzzing eagerness before a big trip
- 13 across: SADNESS. Low mood that may bring tears
- 13 down: SHAME. Sinking feeling after doing wrong
- 14 across: FEAR. What courage overcomes
About Emotions
Researchers have long argued over how many basic emotions exist, with some proposing a short core set that includes anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, and joy, each tied to a recognizable facial expression. Others treat feelings as blends shaped by language and culture. Naming what you feel is itself useful: putting a word to a state tends to make it easier to manage. This crossword works through both the blunt reactions and the slower ones, like gratitude, shame, and loneliness.
Counselors, health teachers, and advisory-period leaders reach for this when a lesson turns to naming feelings and vocabulary needs to come first.
What is in this crossword
A 15 by 16 crossword with 9 across and 6 down, on the subject of Emotions.
- Grid
- 15 x 16
- Across
- 9
- Down
- 6
- Longest answer
- LONELINESS (10 letters)