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Planets123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Natural satellite circling a planet
  • 2 Ice giant that rolls on its side
  • 6 Shadow event when one body blocks another
  • 8 The only planet known to hold life
  • 9 Force keeping worlds on their paths
  • 10 Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  • 12 Curved path a world takes around a star
  • 13 Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  • 14 Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  • 15 Spinning that gives a world its day

Down

  • 1 Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  • 3 Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  • 4 Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  • 5 Giant with a centuries-old storm spot
  • 7 Reclassified as a dwarf in 2006
  • 11 Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter

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Planets1MOONA2URANU3S4NRA5J6ECLI7PSE8EARTHUPLUPTU9GRAVITY10VENUSTNT11AN12ORBIT13TELESCOPERT14MERCURYR15ROTATIONID
  1. 1 across: MOON. Natural satellite circling a planet
  2. 1 down: MARS. Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  3. 2 across: URANUS. Ice giant that rolls on its side
  4. 3 down: SATURN. Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  5. 4 down: NEPTUNE. Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  6. 5 down: JUPITER. Giant with a centuries-old storm spot
  7. 6 across: ECLIPSE. Shadow event when one body blocks another
  8. 7 down: PLUTO. Reclassified as a dwarf in 2006
  9. 8 across: EARTH. The only planet known to hold life
  10. 9 across: GRAVITY. Force keeping worlds on their paths
  11. 10 across: VENUS. Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  12. 11 down: ASTEROID. Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  13. 12 across: ORBIT. Curved path a world takes around a star
  14. 13 across: TELESCOPE. Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  15. 14 across: MERCURY. Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  16. 15 across: ROTATION. Spinning that gives a world its day
Planets123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Natural satellite circling a planet
  • 4 Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  • 5 Shadow event when one body blocks another
  • 6 Force keeping worlds on their paths
  • 8 Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  • 9 Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  • 12 Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  • 13 Giant with a centuries-old storm spot
  • 15 Ice giant that rolls on its side

Down

  • 2 Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  • 3 The only planet known to hold life
  • 7 Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • 10 Spinning that gives a world its day
  • 11 Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  • 14 Curved path a world takes around a star

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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Planets1MOO2N3EE4MARS5ECLIPSERT6GR7AVITY8SATURNSHNT9ME10RCURYEOR11V12TELESCOPEAIN13JUPITERDUIS14OO15URANUSBIT
  1. 1 across: MOON. Natural satellite circling a planet
  2. 2 down: NEPTUNE. Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  3. 3 down: EARTH. The only planet known to hold life
  4. 4 across: MARS. Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  5. 5 across: ECLIPSE. Shadow event when one body blocks another
  6. 6 across: GRAVITY. Force keeping worlds on their paths
  7. 7 down: ASTEROID. Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  8. 8 across: SATURN. Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  9. 9 across: MERCURY. Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  10. 10 down: ROTATION. Spinning that gives a world its day
  11. 11 down: VENUS. Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  12. 12 across: TELESCOPE. Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  13. 13 across: JUPITER. Giant with a centuries-old storm spot
  14. 14 down: ORBIT. Curved path a world takes around a star
  15. 15 across: URANUS. Ice giant that rolls on its side
Planets12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 2 Force keeping worlds on their paths
  • 4 Reclassified as a dwarf in 2006
  • 9 Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  • 14 Ice giant that rolls on its side
  • 15 Curved path a world takes around a star
  • 16 Giant with a centuries-old storm spot

Down

  • 1 The only planet known to hold life
  • 3 Spinning that gives a world its day
  • 5 Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • 6 Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  • 7 Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  • 8 Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  • 10 Shadow event when one body blocks another
  • 11 Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  • 12 Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  • 13 Natural satellite circling a planet

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
Planets1EAR2G3RAVITYOH4PLUTOAT5AI6M7S8V9T10ELESCOPE11NAECTNRET12MN13MLECP14URANUS15ORBITR16JUPITERRSOPORUNSNSIYNEDE
  1. 1 down: EARTH. The only planet known to hold life
  2. 2 across: GRAVITY. Force keeping worlds on their paths
  3. 3 down: ROTATION. Spinning that gives a world its day
  4. 4 across: PLUTO. Reclassified as a dwarf in 2006
  5. 5 down: ASTEROID. Rocky chunk in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  6. 6 down: MERCURY. Smallest planet and the one nearest our star
  7. 7 down: SATURN. Ringed beauty, sixth from the star
  8. 8 down: VENUS. Cloud-covered world, hottest in the solar system
  9. 9 across: TELESCOPE. Tool for bringing distant worlds into view
  10. 10 down: ECLIPSE. Shadow event when one body blocks another
  11. 11 down: NEPTUNE. Deep blue world farthest from the center of our system
  12. 12 down: MARS. Rusty red neighbor explored by rovers
  13. 13 down: MOON. Natural satellite circling a planet
  14. 14 across: URANUS. Ice giant that rolls on its side
  15. 15 across: ORBIT. Curved path a world takes around a star
  16. 16 across: JUPITER. Giant with a centuries-old storm spot

About Planets

Eight planets circle the Sun, and no two are alike. Mercury is a cratered ball of rock with almost no atmosphere, while Jupiter is a gas giant so large that every other planet could fit inside it. Saturn's rings are made mostly of ice. Uranus tips so far on its side that it rolls along its orbital path. Neptune, invisible without a telescope, was found by mathematicians who predicted where to look before anyone saw it.

Reach for this during an astronomy or solar system unit, or on any evening when a bright point of light in the sky starts an argument about which planet it is.

What is in this crossword

A 24 by 15 crossword with 10 across and 6 down, on the subject of Planets.

Grid
24 x 15
Across
10
Down
6
Longest answer
TELESCOPE (9 letters)

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