August Crossword Puzzle

Print a criss-cross vocabulary crossword for August: heat and storms, field crops, the Perseids, Augustus and dates.

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Answer key: August Crossword

1T2P3SHADE4V5LEOUAAN6BACKPACKDAH7PERIDOTRI8SUNFLOW9ERTNI10CORNGR11HEAT12METEORTH

Across 3 SHADE · 5 LEO · 6 BACKPACK · 7 PERIDOT · 8 SUNFLOWER · 10 CORN · 11 HEAT · 12 METEOR

Down 1 THUNDERSTORM · 2 PEACH · 4 VACATION · 9 EIGHTH

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Heat, Storms and Dog Days 23

  • Anvil Top of a full-grown cumulonimbus, flat and wide like a smith's tool
  • Derecho Windstorm, named in 1888, that sweeps ahead of a fast band of summer thunderheads
  • Dog days Old name for the muggiest weeks of the year, when a certain bright star rose at dawn
  • Drought Rainless weeks that crack the soil and empty the creek
  • Evaporate To dry up into the air, as dew does by midmorning
  • Fan Whirring blades in a window that stir a sticky bedroom
  • Hail Icy stones that can dent a car roof in a summer storm
  • Haze What hangs over the valley when you can barely make out the ridge
  • Heat What rises in shimmering waves from a parking lot in August
  • Humid Like air so damp that a towel never dries
  • Hurricane Spiral storm with an eye, most common from mid-August to mid-October
  • Lightning Jagged white streak that shows the whole yard for an instant
  • Mirage Shimmering "lake" on the highway that retreats as you drive toward it
  • Monsoon Yearly wind pattern behind the summer downpours of the desert Southwest
  • Pool Fenced rectangle of blue water with a diving board
  • Rumble Long, low growl from the sky after a far-off flash
  • Shade A porch roof or a wide hat brim gives it
  • Sprinkler Lawn gadget whose spray kids run through to cool off
  • Sultry Sticky-hot, like the breathless hour before the clouds break
  • Sweat It darkens a T-shirt during a game in the sun
  • Swelter To suffer through a sticky, stifling afternoon
  • Thermometer Glass tube or dial that shows how hot the day has become
  • Thunderstorm Dark clouds, a flash, a boom and a downpour on a hot afternoon

Fields, Gardens and Night Songs 24

  • Blackberry Thicket berry, glossy and dark when ripe, that leaves purple fingerprints
  • Cicada Its whine from the treetops swells and fades through the hottest hours
  • Corn Tall field crop eaten on the cob
  • Cricket Black hopper under the porch whose song is quicker on a warm night
  • Cucumber Vine crop that turns into dill spears in a jar
  • Dragonfly Mosquito hawk: a pond hunter that catches its dinner in midair
  • East Direction the big yellow field blooms face once they are fully grown
  • Eggplant Plant of the nightshade family whose dark, spongy fruit the British call aubergine
  • Goldenrod Late bloomer whose mustard-yellow sprays nod along country roads
  • Grasshopper Leaper that bursts out of dry weeds a step ahead of your shoes
  • Hay What a farmer mows, rakes into rows and bales while the sun shines
  • Honey What a beekeeper spins out of the comb
  • Hummingbird Garden visitor weighing only a few grams, hanging in the air at a feeder
  • Katydid Bush singer whose three-beat song is spelled out in its common name
  • Monarch Orange-winged migrant of the milkweed patch whose last brood of summer leaves for Mexico
  • Nectarine Smooth, shiny-skinned fruit with a pit, sold beside its fuzzy relative
  • Okra Lady's fingers: a pod of hot-weather gardens
  • Peach Its fuzz comes off on your fingers and its juice runs down your chin
  • Silk Soft threads at the tip of an ear in a maize field
  • Sunflower Crop grown for birdseed and oil, with a flower head broad as a plate
  • Tassel Feathery top of a maize stalk, which sheds the pollen
  • Tomato It ripens from green to red on a staked vine and ends up in ketchup
  • Watermelon Picnic heavyweight with a rind thick enough to pickle
  • Wheat Bearded stalks that roll like waves across a prairie field

Calendar, Sky and Birthstones 21

  • Comet Dirty snowball with a tail; one of them sheds the grit behind August's sky show
  • Eighth August is the ___ of the twelve months
  • Fireball Showy flash that August's sky show is known for, slower to fade than the rest
  • Gladiolus Sword lily, a choice for August birthday bouquets
  • Leo Zodiac sign of the first three weeks of August
  • Meteor Brief bright streak that people call a falling star
  • Olivine Green mineral whose gem form is August's best-known birthstone
  • Peridot Gem of August birthdays, the color of an olive
  • Perseids Mid-August sky show that can top 50 streaks an hour
  • Perseus Greek hero whose star pattern lends its name to August's sky show
  • Poppy Silky-petaled plant listed with the sword lily for August birthdays
  • Radiant Point in the sky that a shower of shooting stars seems to spread from
  • Regulus Brightest star in the constellation of the lion
  • Sardonyx Layered gem of August birthdays, a reddish relative of onyx
  • Sirius The Dog Star, which outshines all others after dark
  • Spica Brightest star in the constellation of the maiden
  • Spinel Gem named an August birthstone in 2016
  • Thirty-one How many days August has, a day more than June
  • Triangle Figure traced by Vega, Deneb and Altair, about overhead at midnight in August
  • Virgo Second zodiac sign of August, pictured as a maiden
  • Winter Season that August belongs to in Australia and Argentina

Augustus and the Roman Year 18

  • Actium Sea battle off Greece in 31 BC, won by the heir of Julius Caesar
  • Augustus Roman ruler whose name the month has carried since 8 BC
  • Bricks What Rome's first ruler said he found the city built of
  • Dignified Meaning of the adjective august, spelled with a small a
  • Egypt Land whose conquest was one reason August got its name
  • Emperor Rank that the man August is named for was the first to hold in Rome
  • July The month before August, renamed in 44 BC
  • Latin Language that gave August both of its names
  • Marble Stone that Rome's first ruler boasted of leaving the city clad in
  • Myth What the tale is that August was stretched to 31 days to match Julius Caesar's month
  • Numa Second king of Rome in legend, who put January and February ahead of March
  • Octavian What historians call the first Roman ruler for the years 44 to 27 BC
  • Peace The long Roman calm that began in 27 BC is called the Roman ___
  • Romulus Brother of Remus and first king of Rome in legend
  • Senate Roman body whose decree gave August its present name
  • Sextilis What Romans called August before 8 BC
  • Sixth August was the ___ month of the first Roman calendar
  • Triumph Roman honor: a four-horse chariot ride to Jupiter's temple with the spoils of war

Dates in August 22

  • Backpack It rides between your shoulder blades, heavy with new notebooks
  • Colorado The Centennial State, which entered the Union in August 1876
  • Curiosity Six-wheeled science lab that reached Mars in August 2012
  • Eclipse The Moon hid the Sun from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21, 2017
  • Elephant Gray giant honored each August 12 with a world day of its own
  • Fair State ___: where a quilt, a jar of jam and a hog can all win best in show
  • Hawaii Newest of the fifty states, since August 21, 1959
  • Humanitarian World ___ Day, August 19, honors aid workers
  • Klondike Yukon creek country that drew a gold rush after a find on August 16, 1896
  • Krakatoa Island volcano in the Sunda Strait that blew apart in late August 1883
  • Louvre Where the Mona Lisa hung until a thief walked off with it on August 21, 1911
  • Neptune Planet that a spacecraft first flew past on August 25, 1989
  • Panama Isthmus nation where a passage for ships opened on August 15, 1914
  • Parchment Handwritten sheet of the Declaration of Independence, signed mostly on August 2, 1776
  • Parks National ___ Service, created on August 25, 1916
  • Penny Coin that got Lincoln's portrait on August 2, 1909
  • Raft Balsa-log vessel Kon-Tiki, which hit a Pacific reef on August 7, 1947
  • Signal An early electric traffic ___ was installed at a Cleveland corner in August 1914
  • Smithsonian Washington institution of many museums, born August 10, 1846
  • Vacation Time off, which many European workers take in August
  • Vote Ballot right written into the Constitution for women in August 1920
  • Voyager Name shared by twin spacecraft; number 2 lifted off on August 20, 1977

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 Perseids page, the hurricane clue against NOAA's National Hurricane Center, and the Parks and Vote clues against the National Park Service and the National Archives, in October 2026. The weather is that of the Northern Hemisphere. No faith's holiday is an answer. Licence: own work

How it works

The opening grid of this August crossword puzzle has 12 words, among them Heat, Vacation, Peridot, Sunflower, Thunderstorm and Meteor. School words are left to the back to school page: only Backpack is here.

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What the five other sets hold

Heat, Storms and Dog Days has Humid, Mirage, Anvil and Derecho. Fields, Gardens and Night Songs has Katydid, Goldenrod, Okra and Tassel. Calendar, Sky and Birthstones has Perseids, Sirius, Sardonyx and Regulus. Augustus and the Roman Year has Sextilis, Octavian, Actium and Senate. Dates in August has Hawaii, Krakatoa, Voyager and Smithsonian.

Dates a class can check

The dates set gives a class something to verify in an almanac: the National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916, and Hawaii joined the Union on August 21, 1959.

  • Weather clues describe August north of the equator. In Australia and Argentina the month is winter, and Winter is an answer for that reason.

Questions and answers

Is there a printable August crossword puzzle with an answer key?

Yes. Press Print and the answer key comes out as the last sheet, after the grid and its clues. It is free, with no account.

What grade is the August crossword puzzle for?

Grades 4 to 6 for First August Words, by our reckoning, and grades 5 to 8 for the themed sets, with Augustus and the Roman Year the hardest. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Why is August called August?

The Romans first called it Sextilis, the sixth month of a year that began in March. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of the emperor Augustus. Sextilis, Sixth and Augustus are all answers.

What are the birthstone and birth flower for August?

The birthstones are peridot, sardonyx and spinel, and the birth flowers are the gladiolus and the poppy. All five are answers, along with Olivine, the mineral whose gem form is peridot.

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