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Solar System12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 7 The blue planet we call home
  • 8 Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  • 9 Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  • 10 Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  • 13 Demoted to dwarf status in 2006
  • 14 The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  • 16 Path a planet takes around the Sun

Down

  • 1 Giant with a Great Red Spot
  • 2 When one body hides another from view
  • 3 Smallest planet, closest to our star
  • 4 Ice giant that spins on its side
  • 5 Ringed beauty of the outer planets
  • 6 Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • 11 Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  • 12 Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  • 15 Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969

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Solar System1JU2EP3M4UC5S6AI7EARTHRLASTRAIT8TELESCOPE9NEPTUNERUUSRR10GRA11VITYSENOYEIN12CD13PLUTOS14MARS15ME16ORBITON
  1. 1 down: JUPITER. Giant with a Great Red Spot
  2. 2 down: ECLIPSE. When one body hides another from view
  3. 3 down: MERCURY. Smallest planet, closest to our star
  4. 4 down: URANUS. Ice giant that spins on its side
  5. 5 down: SATURN. Ringed beauty of the outer planets
  6. 6 down: ASTEROID. Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  7. 7 across: EARTH. The blue planet we call home
  8. 8 across: TELESCOPE. Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  9. 9 across: NEPTUNE. Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  10. 10 across: GRAVITY. Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  11. 11 down: VENUS. Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  12. 12 down: COMET. Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  13. 13 across: PLUTO. Demoted to dwarf status in 2006
  14. 14 across: MARS. The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  15. 15 down: MOON. Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969
  16. 16 across: ORBIT. Path a planet takes around the Sun
Solar System12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 2 The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  • 4 The blue planet we call home
  • 6 Ice giant that spins on its side
  • 7 Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969
  • 11 Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  • 12 Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  • 13 Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  • 15 Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  • 16 Giant with a Great Red Spot

Down

  • 1 Path a planet takes around the Sun
  • 3 Ringed beauty of the outer planets
  • 5 Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  • 8 Smallest planet, closest to our star
  • 9 Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • 10 When one body hides another from view
  • 14 Demoted to dwarf status in 2006

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Solar System1O2MARSB3SI4EARTHT5C6URANUS7MOON8MRM9A10E11NEPTUNE12VENUSCRT13TELESCOPEEIU14PRP15GRAVITYLOSY16JUPITERTDO
  1. 1 down: ORBIT. Path a planet takes around the Sun
  2. 2 across: MARS. The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  3. 3 down: SATURN. Ringed beauty of the outer planets
  4. 4 across: EARTH. The blue planet we call home
  5. 5 down: COMET. Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  6. 6 across: URANUS. Ice giant that spins on its side
  7. 7 across: MOON. Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969
  8. 8 down: MERCURY. Smallest planet, closest to our star
  9. 9 down: ASTEROID. Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  10. 10 down: ECLIPSE. When one body hides another from view
  11. 11 across: NEPTUNE. Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  12. 12 across: VENUS. Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  13. 13 across: TELESCOPE. Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  14. 14 down: PLUTO. Demoted to dwarf status in 2006
  15. 15 across: GRAVITY. Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  16. 16 across: JUPITER. Giant with a Great Red Spot
Solar System123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969
  • 3 Ice giant that spins on its side
  • 5 Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  • 9 Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  • 11 The blue planet we call home
  • 12 Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  • 14 Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  • 15 Ringed beauty of the outer planets

Down

  • 1 The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  • 2 Demoted to dwarf status in 2006
  • 4 Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • 6 Path a planet takes around the Sun
  • 7 Giant with a Great Red Spot
  • 8 Smallest planet, closest to our star
  • 10 Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  • 13 When one body hides another from view

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
Solar System1MOON2PALR3UR4ANUS5C6OMETS7JROT8MUB9TELESCOPE10VIRRI11EARTHTOCTNIU12NEPTUN13EDRRSCYL14GRAVITYP15SATURNE
  1. 1 across: MOON. Our natural satellite, walked on in 1969
  2. 1 down: MARS. The red one, home to Olympus Mons
  3. 2 down: PLUTO. Demoted to dwarf status in 2006
  4. 3 across: URANUS. Ice giant that spins on its side
  5. 4 down: ASTEROID. Rocky lump in the belt between Mars and Jupiter
  6. 5 across: COMET. Icy visitor with a glowing tail
  7. 6 down: ORBIT. Path a planet takes around the Sun
  8. 7 down: JUPITER. Giant with a Great Red Spot
  9. 8 down: MERCURY. Smallest planet, closest to our star
  10. 9 across: TELESCOPE. Tube that brings distant worlds closer
  11. 10 down: VENUS. Cloud-covered world named for a goddess of love
  12. 11 across: EARTH. The blue planet we call home
  13. 12 across: NEPTUNE. Farthest planet, deep blue and windy
  14. 13 down: ECLIPSE. When one body hides another from view
  15. 14 across: GRAVITY. Invisible pull that keeps worlds in line
  16. 15 across: SATURN. Ringed beauty of the outer planets

About Solar System

Eight planets circle the Sun, along with dwarf planets like Pluto, millions of asteroids concentrated between Mars and Jupiter, and comets that grow tails only when solar heat vaporizes their ice. Jupiter alone outweighs every other planet combined. Saturn's rings, made mostly of water ice, span far wider than they are thick. Gravity holds all of it in orbit, and even Earth's Moon slowly drifts away, a few centimeters each year, measured by lasers bounced off mirrors left by Apollo astronauts.

Reach for this in an elementary or middle school astronomy unit, or after a clear night spent picking out planets with a telescope.

What is in this crossword

A 19 by 16 crossword with 7 across and 9 down, on the subject of Solar System.

Grid
19 x 16
Across
7
Down
9
Longest answer
TELESCOPE (9 letters)

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