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Olympics crossword
Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Across
- 2 Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 3 Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 4 Runner-up's medal
- 8 Competitor on the beam or vault
- 9 Metal awarded for first place
- 11 Race of 26.2 miles
- 13 Song played as the winner's flag rises
- 14 Flame carried by relay to the host city
Down
- 1 Third-place prize
- 4 Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 5 Spear thrown for distance
- 6 Winter sled ridden feet first
- 7 Three-step stand for medal winners
- 10 Sprint with barriers to clear
- 12 Cartoon character representing the Games
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- 1 down: BRONZE. Third-place prize
- 2 across: RINGS. Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 3 across: ATHENS. Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 4 across: SILVER. Runner-up's medal
- 4 down: SWIMMER. Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 5 down: JAVELIN. Spear thrown for distance
- 6 down: LUGE. Winter sled ridden feet first
- 7 down: PODIUM. Three-step stand for medal winners
- 8 across: GYMNAST. Competitor on the beam or vault
- 9 across: GOLD. Metal awarded for first place
- 10 down: HURDLES. Sprint with barriers to clear
- 11 across: MARATHON. Race of 26.2 miles
- 12 down: MASCOT. Cartoon character representing the Games
- 13 across: ANTHEM. Song played as the winner's flag rises
- 14 across: TORCH. Flame carried by relay to the host city
Across
- 2 Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 4 Metal awarded for first place
- 5 Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 9 Race of 26.2 miles
- 10 Spear thrown for distance
- 12 Winter sled ridden feet first
- 13 Cartoon character representing the Games
- 14 Team race with a baton
Down
- 1 Flame carried by relay to the host city
- 3 Runner-up's medal
- 4 Competitor on the beam or vault
- 6 Sprint with barriers to clear
- 7 Three-step stand for medal winners
- 8 Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 11 Song played as the winner's flag rises
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 down: TORCH. Flame carried by relay to the host city
- 2 across: ATHENS. Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 3 down: SILVER. Runner-up's medal
- 4 across: GOLD. Metal awarded for first place
- 4 down: GYMNAST. Competitor on the beam or vault
- 5 across: SWIMMER. Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 6 down: HURDLES. Sprint with barriers to clear
- 7 down: PODIUM. Three-step stand for medal winners
- 8 down: RINGS. Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 9 across: MARATHON. Race of 26.2 miles
- 10 across: JAVELIN. Spear thrown for distance
- 11 down: ANTHEM. Song played as the winner's flag rises
- 12 across: LUGE. Winter sled ridden feet first
- 13 across: MASCOT. Cartoon character representing the Games
- 14 across: RELAY. Team race with a baton
Across
- 2 Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 6 Three-step stand for medal winners
- 8 Race of 26.2 miles
- 10 Runner-up's medal
- 11 Spear thrown for distance
- 14 Metal awarded for first place
- 15 Winter sled ridden feet first
- 16 Cartoon character representing the Games
Down
- 1 Competitor on the beam or vault
- 3 Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 4 Third-place prize
- 5 Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 7 Team race with a baton
- 9 Sprint with barriers to clear
- 12 Song played as the winner's flag rises
- 13 Flame carried by relay to the host city
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 down: GYMNAST. Competitor on the beam or vault
- 2 across: ATHENS. Greek city where the modern Games began in 1896
- 3 down: SWIMMER. Pool athlete doing the butterfly
- 4 down: BRONZE. Third-place prize
- 5 down: RINGS. Five interlocking symbols on the flag
- 6 across: PODIUM. Three-step stand for medal winners
- 7 down: RELAY. Team race with a baton
- 8 across: MARATHON. Race of 26.2 miles
- 9 down: HURDLES. Sprint with barriers to clear
- 10 across: SILVER. Runner-up's medal
- 11 across: JAVELIN. Spear thrown for distance
- 12 down: ANTHEM. Song played as the winner's flag rises
- 13 down: TORCH. Flame carried by relay to the host city
- 14 across: GOLD. Metal awarded for first place
- 15 across: LUGE. Winter sled ridden feet first
- 16 across: MASCOT. Cartoon character representing the Games
About Olympics
The modern Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896, reviving a festival held in ancient Olympia centuries earlier. The five interlocking rings, adopted in the early twentieth century, stand for the inhabited continents joined in competition. Athletes still run the marathon, throw the javelin and clear hurdles, while winter programs added sports like the luge, raced feet first on a small sled. Winners hear their national anthem from the top step of the podium.
Reach for this during an Olympic year, when a class or family is following the events and wants the vocabulary of the Games at hand.
What is in this crossword
A 17 by 22 crossword with 8 across and 7 down, on the subject of Olympics.
- Grid
- 17 x 22
- Across
- 8
- Down
- 7
- Longest answer
- MARATHON (8 letters)