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Halloween crossword

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

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Halloween12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 4 Word for a house full of eerie noises
  • 6 Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  • 9 Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  • 12 Face cover that hides who you really are
  • 13 Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  • 16 Glowing carved holder for a candle

Down

  • 1 Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  • 2 Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner
  • 3 Month when the big night arrives
  • 5 Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  • 7 Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  • 8 Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  • 10 Night bird whose call sounds like a question
  • 11 Orange gourd carved with a face
  • 14 Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  • 15 Sugary treat dropped into a bag

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Halloween1FR2SI3OPGCI4HAUNTEDTOEBR5BEA6BROOM7STI8CKKO9C10OSTUMERWLNLEM11PT12MASK13CAULDRONZ14GMNEHPOK15CSI16LANTERNNDY
  1. 1 down: FRIGHT. Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  2. 2 down: SPIDER. Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner
  3. 3 down: OCTOBER. Month when the big night arrives
  4. 4 across: HAUNTED. Word for a house full of eerie noises
  5. 5 down: BAT. Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  6. 6 across: BROOMSTICK. Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  7. 7 down: SKELETON. Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  8. 8 down: CORNMAZE. Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  9. 9 across: COSTUME. Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  10. 10 down: OWL. Night bird whose call sounds like a question
  11. 11 down: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd carved with a face
  12. 12 across: MASK. Face cover that hides who you really are
  13. 13 across: CAULDRON. Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  14. 14 down: GHOST. Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  15. 15 down: CANDY. Sugary treat dropped into a bag
  16. 16 across: LANTERN. Glowing carved holder for a candle
Halloween12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 2 Sugary treat dropped into a bag
  • 3 Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  • 5 Orange gourd carved with a face
  • 7 Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  • 10 Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  • 12 Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  • 14 Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  • 16 Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner

Down

  • 1 Glowing carved holder for a candle
  • 4 Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  • 6 Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  • 8 Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  • 9 Word for a house full of eerie noises
  • 11 Month when the big night arrives
  • 13 Face cover that hides who you really are
  • 15 Night bird whose call sounds like a question

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
Halloween1L2CANDYN3GHOST4CEAR5PUMPKINLD6FRR7BROOM8STICKNKGEH9HLTA10C11OSTUMEUCTN12BATO13MTO14C15ORNMAZEBWSDELK16SPIDER
  1. 1 down: LANTERN. Glowing carved holder for a candle
  2. 2 across: CANDY. Sugary treat dropped into a bag
  3. 3 across: GHOST. Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  4. 4 down: CAULDRON. Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  5. 5 across: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd carved with a face
  6. 6 down: FRIGHT. Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  7. 7 across: BROOMSTICK. Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  8. 8 down: SKELETON. Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  9. 9 down: HAUNTED. Word for a house full of eerie noises
  10. 10 across: COSTUME. Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  11. 11 down: OCTOBER. Month when the big night arrives
  12. 12 across: BAT. Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  13. 13 down: MASK. Face cover that hides who you really are
  14. 14 across: CORNMAZE. Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  15. 15 down: OWL. Night bird whose call sounds like a question
  16. 16 across: SPIDER. Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner
Halloween123456789101112131415

Across

  • 4 Word for a house full of eerie noises
  • 5 Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  • 6 Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  • 9 Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  • 10 Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  • 14 Orange gourd carved with a face
  • 15 Sugary treat dropped into a bag

Down

  • 1 Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  • 2 Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner
  • 3 Month when the big night arrives
  • 7 Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  • 8 Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  • 11 Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  • 12 Face cover that hides who you really are
  • 13 Glowing carved holder for a candle

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
Halloween1FR2SI3OPGCI4HAUNTED5GHOSTOEBR6CO7STUMEKR8BE9CAULDRONTET10BROOMSTI11CKNO12MRA13LNSA14PUMPKINATZEER15CANDY
  1. 1 down: FRIGHT. Sudden scare, or a night full of them
  2. 2 down: SPIDER. Eight-legged web spinner in a spooky corner
  3. 3 down: OCTOBER. Month when the big night arrives
  4. 4 across: HAUNTED. Word for a house full of eerie noises
  5. 5 across: GHOST. Sheet-draped spirit said to haunt a house
  6. 6 across: COSTUME. Outfit worn to become someone else for a night
  7. 7 down: SKELETON. Set of bones that rattles in a decoration
  8. 8 down: BAT. Flying mammal that hangs upside down
  9. 9 across: CAULDRON. Big black pot for a bubbling brew
  10. 10 across: BROOMSTICK. Sweeping tool flown across the moon in stories
  11. 11 down: CORNMAZE. Puzzle of tall stalks walked through in autumn
  12. 12 down: MASK. Face cover that hides who you really are
  13. 13 down: LANTERN. Glowing carved holder for a candle
  14. 14 across: PUMPKIN. Orange gourd carved with a face
  15. 15 across: CANDY. Sugary treat dropped into a bag

About Halloween

Halloween falls on October 31, the eve of All Saints' Day, and much of what it looks like now came over with Irish and Scottish immigrants in the nineteenth century. Back home they carved turnips into lanterns; in North America the pumpkin was bigger, softer, and everywhere in autumn, so it won. Trick-or-treating spread across American neighborhoods in the 1930s and 1940s. Owls, bats, and spiders got their reputations from being active after dark, when the rest of us are not.

Reach for this in the last weeks of October, when a class or a family gathering needs something quieter than sugar.

What is in this crossword

A 16 by 23 crossword with 6 across and 10 down, on the subject of Halloween.

Grid
16 x 23
Across
6
Down
10
Longest answer
BROOMSTICK (10 letters)

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