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Weather crossword
Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Across
- 4 Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
- 6 Icy coating on a cold morning windshield
- 7 Light, fine rainfall
- 9 Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 11 Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 12 Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 13 Long stretch with far too little rain
- 14 Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 15 Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
Down
- 1 Gentle moving air
- 2 Seasonal wind bringing months of heavy rain to South Asia
- 3 Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 5 Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 8 Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 10 Amount of moisture in the air
- 11 Instrument that measures air pressure
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Show the answer key
- 1 down: BREEZE. Gentle moving air
- 2 down: MONSOON. Seasonal wind bringing months of heavy rain to South Asia
- 3 down: HAIL. Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 4 across: SLEET. Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
- 5 down: THUNDER. Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 6 across: FROST. Icy coating on a cold morning windshield
- 7 across: DRIZZLE. Light, fine rainfall
- 8 down: LIGHTNING. Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 9 across: CUMULUS. Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 10 down: HUMIDITY. Amount of moisture in the air
- 11 across: BLIZZARD. Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 11 down: BAROMETER. Instrument that measures air pressure
- 12 across: METEOROLOGY. Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 13 across: DROUGHT. Long stretch with far too little rain
- 14 across: TORNADO. Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 15 across: HURRICANE. Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
Across
- 2 Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 5 Seasonal wind bringing months of heavy rain to South Asia
- 6 Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 9 Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 10 Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 12 Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
- 13 Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 16 Gentle moving air
Down
- 1 Instrument that measures air pressure
- 3 Long stretch with far too little rain
- 4 Icy coating on a cold morning windshield
- 7 Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 8 Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 11 Amount of moisture in the air
- 14 Light, fine rainfall
- 15 Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
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: BAROMETER. Instrument that measures air pressure
- 2 across: BLIZZARD. Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 3 down: DROUGHT. Long stretch with far too little rain
- 4 down: FROST. Icy coating on a cold morning windshield
- 5 across: MONSOON. Seasonal wind bringing months of heavy rain to South Asia
- 6 across: METEOROLOGY. Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 7 down: LIGHTNING. Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 8 down: CUMULUS. Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 9 across: HAIL. Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 10 across: THUNDER. Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 11 down: HUMIDITY. Amount of moisture in the air
- 12 across: HURRICANE. Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
- 13 across: TORNADO. Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 14 down: DRIZZLE. Light, fine rainfall
- 15 down: SLEET. Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
- 16 across: BREEZE. Gentle moving air
Across
- 1 Long stretch with far too little rain
- 3 Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 4 Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 8 Instrument that measures air pressure
- 9 Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 10 Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
- 12 Light, fine rainfall
Down
- 2 Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 5 Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 6 Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 7 Gentle moving air
- 8 Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 10 Amount of moisture in the air
- 11 Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
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 across: DROUGHT. Long stretch with far too little rain
- 2 down: THUNDER. Rumbling sound that follows a flash in the sky
- 3 across: CUMULUS. Puffy, cotton-ball cloud of fair days
- 4 across: METEOROLOGY. Scientific study of the atmosphere
- 5 down: LIGHTNING. Sudden electric bolt during a storm
- 6 down: TORNADO. Violently spinning funnel of air touching the ground
- 7 down: BREEZE. Gentle moving air
- 8 across: BAROMETER. Instrument that measures air pressure
- 8 down: BLIZZARD. Heavy snow driven by fierce wind
- 9 across: HAIL. Ice pellets falling from a storm cloud
- 10 across: HURRICANE. Huge tropical storm with an eye at its center
- 10 down: HUMIDITY. Amount of moisture in the air
- 11 down: SLEET. Wintry mix of rain and ice, in five letters
- 12 across: DRIZZLE. Light, fine rainfall
About Weather
Weather is the atmosphere's short-term behavior, and most of it comes down to heat, moisture, and pressure moving air around. Thunder is the sound of air expanding explosively after a lightning stroke heats it, which is why you hear it after you see the flash. A barometer tracks air pressure, and a falling reading often warns of a storm hours ahead. A monsoon is not a single rainstorm but a seasonal reversal of prevailing winds that soaks whole regions for months.
Reach for this during an earth science unit on the atmosphere, or on a rainy afternoon when the sky outside is doing the teaching.
What is in this crossword
A 26 by 16 crossword with 9 across and 7 down, on the subject of Weather.
- Grid
- 26 x 16
- Across
- 9
- Down
- 7
- Longest answer
- METEOROLOGY (11 letters)