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Hanukkah crossword

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

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Hanukkah12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Branched lampstand lit during the festival
  • 4 Items added one per night, right to left
  • 5 Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  • 8 Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  • 9 Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  • 11 Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  • 13 Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  • 15 Hebrew month when the festival begins
  • 16 Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil

Down

  • 1 Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  • 2 City where the rededicated Temple stood
  • 6 Helper candle that lights the others
  • 7 What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  • 10 One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition
  • 12 Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  • 14 Number of nights in the celebration

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Hanukkah1D2JRE3MENORAHIU4CANDLESEA5GIMELL6SEH7D8MACCABEESMD9SUFGANIY10OTSCIHALT11B12LESSINGAOT13NUN14EK15KISLEVGSH16GELT
  1. 1 down: DREIDEL. Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  2. 2 down: JERUSALEM. City where the rededicated Temple stood
  3. 3 across: MENORAH. Branched lampstand lit during the festival
  4. 4 across: CANDLES. Items added one per night, right to left
  5. 5 across: GIMEL. Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  6. 6 down: SHAMASH. Helper candle that lights the others
  7. 7 down: DEDICATION. What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  8. 8 across: MACCABEES. Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  9. 9 across: SUFGANIYOT. Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  10. 10 down: OIL. One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition
  11. 11 across: BLESSING. Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  12. 12 down: LATKES. Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  13. 13 across: NUN. Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  14. 14 down: EIGHT. Number of nights in the celebration
  15. 15 across: KISLEV. Hebrew month when the festival begins
  16. 16 across: GELT. Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil
Hanukkah12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 1 Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil
  • 4 Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  • 6 Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  • 8 Items added one per night, right to left
  • 10 Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  • 11 Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  • 12 One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition
  • 13 Hebrew month when the festival begins
  • 16 Branched lampstand lit during the festival

Down

  • 2 Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  • 3 What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  • 5 City where the rededicated Temple stood
  • 7 Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  • 9 Number of nights in the celebration
  • 14 Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  • 15 Helper candle that lights the others

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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Hanukkah1GE2LT3DA4MACCABEESTDK5JIE6BLESSI7NG8CANDL9ESRUAI10SUFGANIYOT11GIMELSIHA12OILT13KISLEVNE14D15S16MENORAHEAIMDAESLH
  1. 1 across: GELT. Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil
  2. 2 down: LATKES. Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  3. 3 down: DEDICATION. What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  4. 4 across: MACCABEES. Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  5. 5 down: JERUSALEM. City where the rededicated Temple stood
  6. 6 across: BLESSING. Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  7. 7 down: NUN. Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  8. 8 across: CANDLES. Items added one per night, right to left
  9. 9 down: EIGHT. Number of nights in the celebration
  10. 10 across: SUFGANIYOT. Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  11. 11 across: GIMEL. Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  12. 12 across: OIL. One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition
  13. 13 across: KISLEV. Hebrew month when the festival begins
  14. 14 down: DREIDEL. Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  15. 15 down: SHAMASH. Helper candle that lights the others
  16. 16 across: MENORAH. Branched lampstand lit during the festival
Hanukkah123456789101112131415

Across

  • 2 Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  • 3 Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil
  • 6 City where the rededicated Temple stood
  • 9 Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  • 11 Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  • 12 Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  • 14 Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  • 15 Branched lampstand lit during the festival

Down

  • 1 Hebrew month when the festival begins
  • 4 Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  • 5 Items added one per night, right to left
  • 7 Helper candle that lights the others
  • 8 Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  • 10 Number of nights in the celebration
  • 11 What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  • 13 One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition

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
Hanukkah1K2GIMEL3GE4LTS5CA6JERU7SALE8MATHEA9NUN10EKAVCD11DREIDELMCLEGSAAEDHS12BLESSINGITHECE13OA14SUFGANIYOTLIO15MENORAH
  1. 1 down: KISLEV. Hebrew month when the festival begins
  2. 2 across: GIMEL. Winning letter on the top: take the whole pot
  3. 3 across: GELT. Chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil
  4. 4 down: LATKES. Fried potato pancakes served with applesauce
  5. 5 down: CANDLES. Items added one per night, right to left
  6. 6 across: JERUSALEM. City where the rededicated Temple stood
  7. 7 down: SHAMASH. Helper candle that lights the others
  8. 8 down: MACCABEES. Family of fighters who reclaimed the Temple
  9. 9 across: NUN. Letter on the top meaning the player takes nothing
  10. 10 down: EIGHT. Number of nights in the celebration
  11. 11 across: DREIDEL. Four-sided spinning top used in a holiday game
  12. 11 down: DEDICATION. What the holiday's Hebrew name means
  13. 12 across: BLESSING. Prayer recited before the flames are kindled
  14. 13 down: OIL. One day's supply that lasted eight, per tradition
  15. 14 across: SUFGANIYOT. Jelly-filled doughnuts eaten for the holiday
  16. 15 across: MENORAH. Branched lampstand lit during the festival

About Hanukkah

Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees reclaimed it, and the holiday begins on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. Its eight nights are counted by the menorah, whose ninth candle, the shamash, lights the others. Oil runs through the traditions: latkes fried in a pan, jam-filled sufganiyot, and the story behind the lamp itself. Clues here cover the dreidel letters nun and gimel, gelt, blessings, and the meaning of dedication.

Reach for this in December when a class, a family table, or a religious school group wants the vocabulary behind the candles.

What is in this crossword

A 17 by 22 crossword with 9 across and 7 down, on the subject of Hanukkah.

Grid
17 x 22
Across
9
Down
7
Longest answer
DEDICATION (10 letters)

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