Crossword Puzzles for Learning English Grammar and Vocabulary

Crossword puzzles have enchanted and mesmerized young and old alike over the centuries, with their seemingly simple yet complex design and endless possibilities of different degrees of challenges. There are people who do crossword puzzles just to pass time, and on the other end of the spectrum, there are others who do it extremely seriously, as though their life depended on it.

Crosswords are rectangular or square-shaped grids in which letters are to be filled in to form words which are the answers to the clues given. The words could be either across or down the grid. Some of the squares are shaded so as to separate the words from each other.

Crosswords originated in the United States in the 19th century and have since become a worldwide sensation, with many languages other than English adopting it. It is no doubt that crossword puzzles are a great way to learn the English language, because they combine both the fun element and the problem solving method of language learning. Let us look at some crossword puzzles and try to solve them.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1:

Use the clues to solve the crossword puzzles given below.

Down
1. Place without water
2. Rodest pest
3. Anger
4 Scattered all over
7. A small river
9. Not this one but the …………. One
12. The sort of house a mother would be proud of
13. Spoil the work
15. Abbreviation

Across
1. Find them in cars
5. Use it to listen
6. Dishes of meat and vegetable cooked together in water
8. Look for one on the end of your foot
10. The name of a book
11. Article
13. Not you
14. Listen to the kitten
15. People like to race them
16. Little connector
17. Past tense, rhymes with a number under ten

Answers

CROSSWORD PUZZLE 2:

Use the clues to solve the crossword puzzles given below.

Across
1. Good enough for a photo
6. livelihood
8. close at hand
10. definite article
11. the bones of a boat
14. total
15. container
17. covered area next to the house

Down
1. length of timber
2. invention
3. not down
4. very fast
5. common
7. shining
9. another form of public transport
12. Plural of is
13. Frozen water
16. After nine

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE 3:

Find the antonyms of the words given as clues.

Across
1. fake
2. unjustly
3. frees
4. catch
5 happiness
8. over
12. untie
13. no

Down
1. accepted
6. concrete
7. fastens
8. down
9. above
10. accept
11. indirectly

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE 4:

Find the past tense form of the verbs given as clues, to fill in the puzzle below.

Across
1. read
2. tied
3. die
4. eat
5. date
8. dose
12. free
13. do

Down
1. round
6. attain
7. hear
8. sit
10. dream
11. strand

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE 5:

Find the past participle form of the verbs given as clues, to answer the puzzle below.

Across
1. swing
2. eat
4. tee
6. pose
9. find
11. do

Down
1. sleep
3. untie
5. go
7. speak
8. dine
10. feed

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