April Crossword Puzzle Printable

Print a criss-cross vocabulary crossword for April: showers and rainbows, seeds and blossoms, the Lyrids, Roman festivals and dates.

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Answer key: April Crossword

1D2ARBORI3S4SEED5POET6RYRA7FO8DIAMONDUNOT9UMBR10ELLAOA11SHOWERST12CHICK

Across 2 ARBOR · 4 SEED · 5 POETRY · 8 DIAMOND · 9 UMBRELLA · 11 SHOWERS · 12 CHICK

Down 1 DAISY · 3 SPROUT · 6 RAINBOW · 7 FOOL · 10 EARTH

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Showers, Puddles and Rainbows 23

  • Cloud Gray ceiling that slides in before the first drops
  • Downpour Cloudburst that drums on the roof and sends everyone running for a doorway
  • Drizzle Wet weather so fine that you feel it before you see it
  • Galoshes Wet-weather footwear with a funny old name, worn over your regular pair
  • Gauge Rain ___: tube with a scale that tells how wet the night was
  • Gutter Where rain collects along the eaves before it rattles down the spout
  • Mist It beads a spider web without ever seeming to fall
  • Overcast Forecast word for a sky with no blue in it
  • Petrichor Scent that rises from soil and rock when a dry spell ends
  • Prism Clear wedge on the science shelf that paints stripes of red, green and blue on the wall
  • Proverb Short old saying, such as the one that promises May flowers
  • Puddle Sidewalk pond that shows the sky until a boot lands in it
  • Rainbow Bright arch said to end at a pot of gold
  • Raincoat Yellow slicker with a hood and a row of snaps
  • Raindrop One bead of water racing another down the windowpane
  • Showers "Sweet April ___ do spring May flowers," wrote a poet of the 1500s
  • Spectrum Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and the rest, laid out side by side
  • Splash What a bike tire throws up your back on a wet street
  • Sunshower Rain that falls while the sun is out
  • Thunder It shakes the windows a moment after the flash
  • Tornado Whirlwind for which a broad belt of the American heartland is nicknamed
  • Umbrella It blooms over your head when the first drops fall
  • Violet Last color named in the list that begins red, orange, yellow

Seeds, Blossoms and Hatchlings 23

  • Bee Fuzzy visitor that leaves an apple bloom dusted with yellow
  • Blossom What an orchard wears for one week before the fruit sets
  • Bluebell It spreads a hazy carpet under the trees of an old British wood
  • Cherry Tree whose bloom along the Tidal Basin opens a festival in the American capital
  • Chick Peeping newcomer under the heat lamp
  • Daisy April's lawn flower; its name comes from "day's eye"
  • Dandelion Lawn flower nicknamed a clock for the puffball it becomes
  • Duckling Web-footed baby, third in line on the pond
  • Garden Fenced plot where rows of peas and lettuce go in
  • Germinate To wake and begin growing, as a bean does in a damp paper towel
  • Kit A doe rabbit's baby
  • Lamb Wobbly newborn that trots after a ewe
  • Lilac Doorway bush whose heavy purple bunches perfume a whole yard
  • Magnolia Tree whose bowl-shaped flowers often appear on bare branches
  • Nectar What a hummingbird's long bill is built to reach
  • Pollen Tree dust that turns a parked car yellow overnight
  • Sapling Whip-thin young oak or maple, staked against the wind
  • Seed It rattles in its packet until the soil warms up
  • Sprout Pale curl that lifts a crumb of soil on its way up
  • Sweet pea Scented climber, the other flower of April birthdays
  • Tadpole Pond wriggler with gills and a tail that will hop one day
  • Tendril Green corkscrew by which a vine holds on to its trellis
  • Tokyo City whose mayor sent the American capital a gift of flowering trees in 1912

Calendar, Sky and Birthstones 20

  • Aldebaran Alpha Tauri, a giant star some 67 light-years from the Sun
  • Autumn Season that April belongs to in Australia and Chile
  • Carat Gem weight: five of them make one gram
  • Carbon Element number 6, which April's gem is made of
  • Comet Thatcher, seen in 1861 and not due back until about 2283, is one
  • Diamond April's gem, so hard that it tops the scale used for minerals
  • Facet Each tiny window on a cut gem
  • Fourth April's place in the year, right after third
  • Hercules Strongman constellation beside the one where April's shooting stars begin
  • Kimberlite Rock, named for a South African town, that holds April's gem
  • Lyra Small constellation that gives April's shooting stars their name
  • Lyrids Shooting stars of late April, watched for some 2,700 years
  • October Month whose weather in the north matches April's in the south
  • Pleiades Group of young stars about 444 light-years away, in the bull
  • Ram Male sheep with spiral horns, the star sign of early April
  • Sparkle What dew does on the lawn at sunrise, and a cut gem does all day
  • Taurus Sign of the bull, which takes over on April 20
  • Ten Score of April's gem at the top of the Mohs hardness scale
  • Thirty The length of April in days
  • Vega Bright star near the point where April's shooting stars seem to begin

Venus and the Roman Year 18

  • Aphrodite Greek goddess whose name some scholars hear in the word April
  • Bud Swelling knob on a twig; Romans said April was named for what it does next
  • Cereal What you pour milk on; the word goes back to a deity of the Roman fields
  • Ceres Deity of the crops, feasted by the Romans for seven days each April
  • Etruscan Ancient people of Italy whose language may have named the month
  • Flora Roman goddess of flowers, whose festival began in the last days of April
  • Grain Wheat and barley, the care of the deity feasted in mid-April
  • Julian Calendar of the 40s BC that gave April back its 30th day
  • Latin Language of the people who named April
  • Numa King said to have shortened the Roman April by a day
  • Rome City whose legendary birthday is April 21
  • Romulus Twin who, in legend, marked out a new city on April 21
  • Second April's place in the earliest Roman year, which began with March
  • Shepherd Herder whose flock was cleansed at the Roman festival of April 21
  • Tiber River of the hills where, in legend, a city was laid out on April 21
  • Twenty-nine Days in the Roman April before Julius Caesar's reform
  • Venus Love deity whose feast began the April of the Caesars
  • Wolf Fierce foster mother of the city's infant founders, in the old story

Dates in April 27

  • Apollo Program whose mission number 13 left for the Moon on April 11, 1970
  • Arbor ___ Day: J. Sterling Morton's idea, now kept on the last Friday of April
  • Book World ___ Day, April 23, a UNESCO day for reading
  • Earth Soil, or the whole world that gets its own day on April 22
  • Fish "April ___": the French name for a trick played on April 1
  • Fool April ___: what the prankster shouts on the 1st
  • Haiku Seventeen-beat poem with a word for the season in it
  • Hoax A 1957 TV report of a "spaghetti harvest" was a famous April 1 one
  • Hubble Telescope carried aloft on April 24, 1990, to look out from above the air
  • Iceberg What the liner Titanic struck late on April 14, 1912
  • Jazz Music with an international day of its own each April 30
  • Lantern Two in a Boston steeple gave the alarm on April 18, 1775
  • Lexington Town whose militia mustered before sunrise on April 19, 1775, to meet the British
  • Limerick Five-liner of nonsense with a galloping beat
  • Louisiana Eighteenth state, since April 30, 1812
  • Mint Coin factory that Congress set up by a law of April 2, 1792
  • Nebraska Treeless prairie state where counties and individuals competed for planting prizes on April 10, 1872
  • Oath What George Washington took on a New York balcony on April 30, 1789
  • Orbit One trip around the planet, first made by a person on April 12, 1961
  • Poetry Art of the sonnet and the ode, given its own month since 1996
  • Pony ___ Express: horseback mail relay whose first riders set out on April 3, 1860
  • Prank A sign taped to a friend's back on April 1, for one
  • Seattle City whose world's fair, with its new Space Needle, began on April 21, 1962
  • Senator Office held by Gaylord Nelson when he proposed a teach-in for April 22, 1970
  • Shuttle Winged craft Columbia, which first flew on April 12, 1981, was one
  • Tambora Indonesian volcano whose eruption of April 1815 was the most powerful on record
  • Taxes What Americans send in forms for by April 15

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grades 4 to 8. Calendar, sky, Roman and date clues were checked against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), the shooting-star clues also against NASA's Lyrids page, and the Earth Day and Arbor Day clues against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Arbor Day Foundation, in October 2026. The weather is that of the Northern Hemisphere. April Fools' Day has four words; no faith's holiday is an answer. Licence: own work

How it works

This printable April crossword puzzle opens on a grid of 12 words, among them Showers, Umbrella, Diamond, Daisy, Earth and Poetry. No faith's holiday is an answer in any set.

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From galoshes to Tambora: the other sets

Showers, Puddles and Rainbows has Galoshes, Petrichor, Prism and Gauge. Seeds, Blossoms and Hatchlings has Lilac, Magnolia, Tendril and Duckling. Calendar, Sky and Birthstones has Lyrids, Carat, Taurus and Aldebaran. Venus and the Roman Year has Ceres, Flora, Shepherd and Etruscan. Dates in April has Nebraska, Lexington, Hubble and Tambora.

Two dates to verify

A class can look these up: Earth Day was first held on April 22, 1970, and the first American Arbor Day was April 10, 1872, in Nebraska.

  • April Fools' Day has four words here: Fool, Prank, Hoax and Fish. The April Fools crossword, a separate page, has the rest.

Questions and answers

Does the April crossword puzzle printable come with answers?

Yes. The answer key prints as the last sheet, behind the grid and the clue list. Nothing to pay and nothing to sign up for.

What grade are the April crossword puzzles for?

Fourth to sixth graders can manage First April Words. The themed sets fit grades 5 to 8, and Venus and the Roman Year asks the most. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Where does the saying about April showers come from?

An English farmer-poet of the 1500s, Thomas Tusser, wrote the couplet "Sweet April showers do spring May flowers". Showers and Proverb are both answers.

What are the birthstone and birth flower for April?

The birthstone is the diamond, and the birth flowers are the daisy and the sweet pea. All three are answers, along with Carbon, the element a diamond is made of.

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