Candy Crossword Puzzle

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Answer key: Candy Crossword

1LICORI2CE3GAU4BRMUADBM5PR6FBEEOU7LOLLIPOPDEPG8CG9VALENTINEOURC10MARSHMALLOWOI11HALLOWEEN12TAFFY

Across 1 LICORICE · 7 LOLLIPOP · 9 VALENTINE · 10 MARSHMALLOW · 11 HALLOWEEN · 12 TAFFY

Down 2 CARAMEL · 3 GUMDROP · 4 BUBBLEGUM · 5 PEPPERMINT · 6 FUDGE · 8 COCOA

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Hard Candy and Lollipops 28

  • Anise Sweet-smelling seed used to flavor hard candies and cookies
  • Apple Candy ___: fruit on a stick in a hard sugar shell
  • Barley ___ sugar: old-fashioned clear amber hard candy
  • Brittle Thin, hard sheet of cooked sugar studded with peanuts
  • Butterscotch Buttery hard candy first made famous in Doncaster, England
  • Cane Candy ___: striped hooked stick of the winter holidays
  • Cinnamon Spice of dried aromatic bark, used in fiery hard candies
  • Comfit Seed or nut with a sugar coating
  • Dragée Candy with a hard sugar shell around a nut or a soft center
  • Drop Lemon ___: small round hard candy with a tart taste
  • Gobstopper British name for a big hard sweet meant to be sucked slowly
  • Honeycomb Light, crunchy candy full of air holes, made by adding baking soda to hot syrup
  • Horehound Bitter herb that gives an old-fashioned hard candy its taste
  • Humbug Striped British boiled sweet with a minty taste
  • Jawbreaker Candy too hard to bite: it has to be licked down slowly
  • Lollipop Candy with a built-in handle, made for licking
  • Lozenge Small sweet tablet, at first diamond-shaped
  • Mint Small candy that leaves the breath fresh
  • Nonpareil One of the tiny sugar balls scattered on a chocolate disk
  • Pastille Flavored candy, often round and somewhat flat
  • Peppermint Herb whose oil gives candy canes their cool taste
  • Ribbon ___ candy: hard strip folded back and forth, seen at Christmas
  • Rock ___ candy: big sugar crystals grown on a string or stick
  • Sprinkles Cake and candy topping that the British call hundreds and thousands
  • Sucker American word for hard candy on a stick
  • Toffee Butter-rich candy that cools hard and is cracked into pieces
  • Wintergreen Cool taste from a North American evergreen plant
  • Wrapper Twist of paper or plastic around one piece of candy

Chewy, Gummy and Soft 26

  • Bear Animal shape of a famous chewy fruit candy first made in Germany
  • Bubblegum Chewy pink stuff made for blowing, not swallowing
  • Caramel Soft, dense, chewy candy made by boiling sugar with butter and cream
  • Chicle Tree sap long used as the main ingredient of chewing gum
  • Corn Candy ___: tri-colored fall sweet shaped like a kernel
  • Divinity Fluffy pale candy of the American South with a heavenly name
  • Dulce de leche Sweetened dairy cooked slowly to a thick brown spread
  • Fondant Soft, creamy sugar paste used as a filling or icing
  • Gelatin Gelling ingredient of most chewy fruit candies
  • Gumball Round chew that rolls out of a coin machine
  • Gumdrop Brightly colored chew, fruit or spice flavored, with a sugar crust
  • Gummy Word for a chewy fruit candy often shaped like an animal
  • Halva Dense sweet made from sesame paste
  • Honey Bees' sweet, used in candy long before refined sugar
  • Jelly bean Small oval candy with a thin sugar shell and a soft center, a favorite at Easter
  • Licorice Chewy candy, classically black, sold in ropes and tubes
  • Marshmallow Squashy pillow of whipped sugar, named for a swamp plant
  • Marzipan Nut dough that can be tinted and modeled like clay
  • Molasses Thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane as sugar is made
  • Nougat Chewy candy whipped light and studded with roasted nuts
  • Pectin Fruit substance that sets jellies and some chews
  • Praline French-born nut candy that became a creamy patty in New Orleans
  • Sour Sharp taste of candy dusted with citric acid
  • Taffy Seaside candy in twisted wax-paper wrappers; one kind is named for salt water
  • Turkish delight Soft cubes of sweet gel dusted with powdered sugar
  • Worm Long wiggly shape of a popular chewy candy

Chocolate, Fudge and Nuts 24

  • Almond Oval nut often sugar-coated for weddings
  • Bar Flat slab of chocolate, often molded in squares
  • Bonbon Small sweet covered in chocolate; the word came over from France
  • Cacao Tree whose Latin name, Theobroma, means food of the gods
  • Carob Mediterranean tree whose ground pods stand in for chocolate
  • Cashew Curved nut that grows at the end of a tropical fruit
  • Chip Teardrop-shaped bit of chocolate sold by the bag for baking
  • Cocoa Unsweetened powder left when the fat is pressed out of roasted beans
  • Coconut Shredded filling from the fruit of a tropical palm
  • Cordial Chocolate shell with a liquid center, most famously around a cherry
  • Dark Kind of chocolate with a deep, slightly bitter taste
  • Fudge Creamy candy beaten as it cools so that it sets smooth, not grainy
  • Ganache Silky chocolate-and-cream mixture inside many filled chocolates
  • Hazelnut Round nut blended with chocolate in the Italian sweet gianduja
  • Milk Most eaten kind of chocolate; a Swiss maker first got the dairy to blend in 1875
  • Mocha Blend of coffee and chocolate tastes
  • Peanut Legume, not a true nut, roasted for candy
  • Pecan Nut of a tree native to the south-central United States, used in creamy Louisiana candies
  • Pod Leathery fruit that holds the seeds chocolate is made from
  • Pretzel Knot-shaped baked snack, sometimes sold in a chocolate shell
  • Raisin Wrinkled fruit that candy makers cover in chocolate
  • Truffle Rich chocolate ball that shares its name with a prized underground mushroom
  • Vanilla Seed pods cured until brown and fragrant give this flavoring
  • Walnut Nut of a hardwood tree; its name is also a deep brown color

In the Candy Kitchen 27

  • Batch One kettleful: all the candy from a single cooking
  • Boil What sugar syrup does furiously in the pot
  • Caramelize Turn brown and buttery-tasting when heated, as sugar does
  • Coat Cover all over with a thin layer
  • Confectioner Candy maker; a fine powdered sugar is named for this trade
  • Crack Hard ___: name of the candy stage at which syrup is 99 percent sugar
  • Crystal Tiny regular solid that sugar forms as syrup cools
  • Dip Lower a center briefly into liquid chocolate
  • Dissolve First step of candy making: sugar does this in water before the heat goes up
  • Enrobe Candy makers' word for coating a center in chocolate
  • Extract A few drops of this, such as lemon or orange, scent a whole pot
  • Floss Candy ___: British name for spun sugar on a stick
  • Glucose Simple sugar that candy makers use in the form of a thick syrup
  • Kettle Big metal pot in which candy is cooked
  • Melt Go soft and runny, as chocolate does in a pocket
  • Mold Form that turns liquid candy into stars, coins or animals
  • Pan Shallow metal dish in which candy cools and sets
  • Panning Tumbling candy centers in a drum to build up a shell
  • Pour Empty hot syrup from the pot onto the slab
  • Pull Stretch and fold warm candy over and over to work in air
  • Recipe Card that tells how much sugar and how long to cook
  • Spatula Flat-bladed tool for turning and lifting candy on a slab
  • Spin Whirl liquid sugar into fine threads
  • Starch Powder into which shapes are stamped, then filled with warm gel, to make gummies
  • Stir Circle a spoon through the pot so that nothing scorches
  • Temper Bring chocolate up and down in heat so that its crystals line up
  • Thermometer Clip-on gauge that tells a candy maker the heat of the pot

Holidays and Parties 24

  • Advent ___ calendar: a little door, often with a chocolate behind it, for each December day
  • Basket Easter ___: what children carry to gather hidden eggs
  • Bunny Long-eared chocolate shape of spring
  • Conversation ___ hearts: small candies stamped with short messages
  • Cotton candy Sugar confection that resembles the white fiber in its name
  • Egg Hollow chocolate shape for a spring hunt
  • Favor Party ___: small gift a guest takes home
  • Gelt Foil-wrapped chocolate money of Hanukkah
  • Halloween Holiday whose colors are orange and black
  • Heart Outline seen on valentines and candy boxes in February
  • Jar Glass container on a candy shop counter
  • Lolly British short word for hard candy on a stick; in Australia, any candy
  • Mithai Word for the sugary treats of South Asia, shared at Diwali
  • Penny ___ candy: cheap treats once sold by the piece
  • Piñata Papier-mâché figure that blindfolded guests swing at with a stick
  • Pumpkin Fall gourd that gives its shape to a soft creme candy
  • Scoop Tool for lifting loose candy out of a bin
  • Skull Sugar ___: decorated candy of the Day of the Dead in Mexico
  • Stocking Hung up empty on December 24, found full of candy the next morning
  • Sweets British word for candy
  • Tooth Sweet ___: a love of sugary food
  • Treat Small pleasure, such as a piece of candy after dinner
  • Trick or treat Children's call at the door on October 31
  • Valentine Card or gift given on February 14

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for a class party or a party table, in five sets: hard candy, chewy candy, chocolate and nuts, the candy kitchen, and holidays. Word meanings were checked in Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0) and candy facts in English Wikipedia in October 2026. Every answer is a kind of candy or a candy word; no brand is named, and no clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This candy crossword puzzle starts with Lollipop, Caramel, Fudge, Licorice and Taffy in a grid of 12 easy answers. It is a vocabulary crossword for Letter or A4.

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Five sets beyond the easy one

Hard Candy and Lollipops has Butterscotch, Jawbreaker and Humbug. Chewy, Gummy and Soft has Nougat, Marzipan and Turkish delight. Chocolate, Fudge and Nuts has Truffle, Ganache and Hazelnut. In the Candy Kitchen has Temper, Caramelize and Enrobe. Holidays and Parties has Gelt, Piñata and Trick or treat.

One page for October and February

Holidays and Parties mixes Halloween and Valentine's Day with Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali and the Day of the Dead. At a party table, younger guests can take the easy set while older ones try In the Candy Kitchen.

Questions and answers

Is the candy crossword puzzle free to print with an answer key?

Yes, and nothing to sign up for. The key prints last on its own sheet, so it can stay with the host until the table has finished.

What age is the candy crossword for?

Easy Candy Words suits grades 2 to 4, with answers such as Mint, Fudge and Taffy. The other sets suit grades 4 and up, and adults at a party table will pause over Dragée and Comfit. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

What is the difference between taffy and toffee?

Taffy is pulled and stretched, which fills it with tiny air bubbles and leaves it light and chewy. Toffee is sugar boiled with butter and cooled until it is hard. Each has its own clue here.

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