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Fairy Tale crossword

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

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Fairy Tale1234567891011121314

Across

  • 3 Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  • 5 Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  • 9 Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  • 11 She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  • 12 Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all
  • 13 Mischievous little creature of caves and mines
  • 14 Bearded little fellow often found in gardens

Down

  • 1 Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  • 2 Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  • 4 Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  • 6 Star-tipped stick for casting spells
  • 7 Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  • 8 Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  • 10 Half-fish maiden of the sea
  • 13 Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk

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Fairy Tale1D2C3W4OLFRAGASRG5TO6WER7SOLA8P9PRINCENUIDMNPDKL10M11CINDERELLANR12MIRRORA13GOBLINIDA14GNOMET
  1. 1 down: DRAGON. Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  2. 2 down: CASTLE. Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  3. 3 across: WOLF. Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  4. 4 down: OGRE. Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  5. 5 across: TOWER. Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  6. 6 down: WAND. Star-tipped stick for casting spells
  7. 7 down: SPINDLE. Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  8. 8 down: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  9. 9 across: PRINCE. Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  10. 10 down: MERMAID. Half-fish maiden of the sea
  11. 11 across: CINDERELLA. She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  12. 12 across: MIRROR. Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all
  13. 13 across: GOBLIN. Mischievous little creature of caves and mines
  14. 13 down: GIANT. Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk
  15. 14 across: GNOME. Bearded little fellow often found in gardens
Fairy Tale123456789101112131415

Across

  • 2 Bearded little fellow often found in gardens
  • 4 Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all
  • 7 Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  • 9 She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  • 14 Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  • 15 Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk

Down

  • 1 Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  • 3 Mischievous little creature of caves and mines
  • 5 Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  • 6 Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  • 8 Half-fish maiden of the sea
  • 10 Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  • 11 Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  • 12 Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  • 13 Star-tipped stick for casting spells

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
Fairy Tale1T2GNOMEWE3G4MIRRORBL5P6PIU7DRAGONMIPNKC8M9CINDERELLANR10CM11WAAO12O13W14SPINDLE15GIANTDFRNLEDE
  1. 1 down: TOWER. Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  2. 2 across: GNOME. Bearded little fellow often found in gardens
  3. 3 down: GOBLIN. Mischievous little creature of caves and mines
  4. 4 across: MIRROR. Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all
  5. 5 down: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  6. 6 down: PRINCE. Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  7. 7 across: DRAGON. Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  8. 8 down: MERMAID. Half-fish maiden of the sea
  9. 9 across: CINDERELLA. She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  10. 10 down: CASTLE. Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  11. 11 down: WOLF. Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  12. 12 down: OGRE. Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  13. 13 down: WAND. Star-tipped stick for casting spells
  14. 14 across: SPINDLE. Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  15. 15 across: GIANT. Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk
Fairy Tale123456789101112131415

Across

  • 3 Pointy-hatted spell caster with a broomstick
  • 6 Half-fish maiden of the sea
  • 7 Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  • 8 She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  • 12 Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  • 13 Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk
  • 14 Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  • 15 Mischievous little creature of caves and mines

Down

  • 1 Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  • 2 Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  • 4 Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  • 5 Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  • 7 Star-tipped stick for casting spells
  • 9 Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  • 10 Bearded little fellow often found in gardens
  • 11 Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all

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
Fairy Tale1SP2P3WITCHU4P5CN6MERMAIDPISLKNTEICL7WOLF8CIN9DERELLA10G11MRNNIAD12TOWER13GIANTMRO14OGRE15GOBLINR
  1. 1 down: SPINDLE. Sharp spinning wheel part that caused a hundred-year sleep
  2. 2 down: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd turned into a coach by magic
  3. 3 across: WITCH. Pointy-hatted spell caster with a broomstick
  4. 4 down: PRINCE. Royal son who often arrives on horseback to save the day
  5. 5 down: CASTLE. Turreted home with a moat and drawbridge
  6. 6 across: MERMAID. Half-fish maiden of the sea
  7. 7 across: WOLF. Grandma impersonator in a red-hooded story
  8. 7 down: WAND. Star-tipped stick for casting spells
  9. 8 across: CINDERELLA. She left a glass slipper behind at the ball
  10. 9 down: DRAGON. Fire-breathing beast guarding treasure
  11. 10 down: GNOME. Bearded little fellow often found in gardens
  12. 11 down: MIRROR. Wall-hung item asked who is fairest of them all
  13. 12 across: TOWER. Tall prison for a girl with very long hair
  14. 13 across: GIANT. Huge fellow at the top of a beanstalk
  15. 14 across: OGRE. Big grumpy monster of the swamp
  16. 15 across: GOBLIN. Mischievous little creature of caves and mines

About Fairy Tale

Fairy tales traveled by mouth long before anyone wrote them down. Charles Perrault set French versions on paper in the 1690s, the Brothers Grimm gathered German tales in the early 1800s, and Hans Christian Andersen invented his own, including The Little Mermaid. The same pieces resurface across languages: a cursed object, a warning ignored, a task repeated three times. Scholars sort thousands of these stories into types, tracking a single plot across continents.

Reach for this alongside a unit on folklore or a shelf of retellings, when students already know the stories and want to see the pattern behind them.

What is in this crossword

A 15 by 19 crossword with 7 across and 8 down, on the subject of Fairy Tale.

Grid
15 x 19
Across
7
Down
8
Longest answer
CINDERELLA (10 letters)

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