Printable Computer Crossword Puzzles With Answers

Print a criss-cross crossword of short computer terms such as Byte and Loop; the answer key prints last.

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Read each clue and write the answer in the squares that start at its number, one letter in each square.

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  • Array
  • Cloud
  • Copy
  • Loop
  • Paste
  • Robot
  • Tab
  • Toner

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Answer key: Computer Crossword

1TABO2CN3LOO4PEPA5AR6RAYSOTBE7CLOUDT

Across 1 TAB · 3 LOOP · 5 ARRAY · 7 CLOUD

Down 1 TONER · 2 COPY · 4 PASTE · 6 ROBOT

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Hardware 30

  • Adapter Go-between that lets one kind of plug fit another kind of socket
  • Cable Bundle of wires in a plastic sleeve
  • Charger Brick and cord that refill a battery
  • Chip Black rectangle with rows of metal legs on a circuit sheet
  • Desktop Machine that stays on a table; also the background view you see first
  • Drive Part that keeps everything when the power is off: hard or solid-state
  • Fan Spinning blades that keep the insides cool
  • Hardware Every part you can touch
  • Headset Earphones joined to a mouthpiece
  • Hub Small box that turns one socket into several
  • Keyboard Rows of lettered buttons that begin Q, W, E, R, T, Y
  • Laptop Folding portable machine with a hinge
  • Memory What a machine with more RAM has more of
  • Microphone Part that picks up your voice
  • Modem Box that links a home to its service provider's line
  • Monitor Display that shows what the machine is doing
  • Motherboard Main circuit sheet that every other part plugs into
  • Mouse Palm-sized pointer mover with two buttons and a wheel
  • Port Socket on the side where a plug fits
  • Printer Inkjet or laser, it feeds sheets from a tray
  • Processor CPU: the part that does the calculating
  • Router Box that passes signals between a home's machines and the outside world
  • Scanner Glass-topped copier of photos and drawings into the machine
  • Speaker Part that plays sound out loud
  • Stylus Slim wand for sketching or signing on glass
  • Tablet Flat touch slate without a hinge
  • Toner Fine black powder that a laser machine uses in place of ink
  • Touchscreen Display that answers to a fingertip
  • Trackpad Smooth rectangle where one finger steers and two fingers slide a page
  • Webcam Small lens above the display for video calls

Software 30

  • Account Your personal space on a service, opened by signing in
  • App Short word for a program on a phone
  • Browser Where a web address is typed and pages appear
  • Clipboard Where a cut or copied item waits to be pasted
  • Crash Sudden stop that may lose unsaved work
  • Cursor On-display marker moved by your hand: an arrow, a hand or an I-beam
  • Database Organized store of records that can be searched and sorted
  • Firewall Guard that blocks unwanted traffic in and out
  • Font Style of lettering
  • Icon Small picture that stands for a program
  • Install Put a new program onto a machine
  • Login Name-and-secret-word step at the start of a session
  • Malware Any program written to do harm
  • Menu List of choices that drops down
  • Password Secret typed as a row of dots
  • Popup Small box that appears on top without being asked
  • Reboot Turn it off and on again
  • Screenshot Picture of exactly what the display shows
  • Scroll Roll the wheel to slide what you are reading
  • Settings Where brightness, sound and language are changed
  • Shortcut Ctrl plus C, for example
  • Software Word for everything a machine runs, as opposed to what it is built from
  • Spreadsheet Table of cells named A1, B2 and so on, good at adding up
  • Template Starter file with the headings and layout already in place
  • Toolbar Strip of small buttons along the top
  • Update Newer version that replaces what you have
  • Username The public half of a sign-in
  • Virus Unwanted program named for the way a germ spreads
  • Wallpaper Picture that covers the background view
  • Window Framed box on the display that can be resized, shrunk or closed

Files and Folders 28

  • Archive Old files packed away for safekeeping
  • Attachment Extra item, such as a snapshot, that travels along with a typed note
  • Backup Spare kept somewhere else in case the first is lost
  • Bit Single 0 or 1
  • Byte Unit of eight binary digits, enough for one letter
  • Cloud Faraway computers that keep your files so any machine can reach them
  • Compress Shrink a big file before sending it
  • Copy Make a second one just like the first
  • Delete Remove for good
  • Directory Older name for a container of files
  • Document Letter, essay or report typed and kept as one file
  • Draft Unfinished version
  • Duplicate Make an exact twin of a file
  • Extension The txt or jpg at the tail of a name
  • Filename What a file is called
  • Folder Named container, drawn like a yellow paper holder
  • Format Kind of file, such as picture, sound or text
  • Paste Drop in what was cut or copied
  • Path List of containers that leads to a file, joined by slashes
  • Preview Quick look before opening or printing
  • Rename Give a new title
  • Restore Rescue an item from the bin and put it back where it was
  • Save What the little floppy-disk button does
  • Storage Room for keeping files, measured in gigabytes
  • Sync Short for the step that makes your phone and your other machines match
  • Thumbnail Postage-stamp-sized picture in a gallery grid
  • Trash Bin where removed items wait before they are gone for good
  • Undo Curved-back-arrow button that reverses your latest change

The Internet 33

  • Bandwidth How much can flow through a connection each second
  • Blog Site of dated posts, newest first
  • Bookmark Kept address that you can return to with one press
  • Broadband Fast, always-on connection
  • Buffer Pause while a video loads ahead
  • Cache Stock of recently used pages kept close for speed
  • Cookie Small note a site leaves on your machine to remember you
  • Domain Name at the heart of a web address, ending in .org or .com
  • Download Bring a file from far away onto your machine
  • Email Message sent to an address with an @ sign
  • Emoji Small picture character such as a smiling face
  • Encrypt Scramble a message so only the right reader can unlock it
  • Homepage First page of a site
  • Hotspot Place, or phone, that shares a connection by radio
  • Hyperlink Underlined words that take you to another page when pressed
  • Inbox First stop for a message that has just come in
  • Internet Global system that carries the web, messages and video calls
  • Network Two or more machines able to talk to one another
  • Offline Not connected
  • Online Connected
  • Phishing Trick message that fishes for secret details
  • Podcast Audio show delivered in episodes
  • Privacy Control over who sees your personal details
  • Refresh Circular-arrow button: fetch the newest version of what you are viewing
  • Search Type a question and get a list of results
  • Server Powerful computer that sends pages to those who ask
  • Spam Unwanted bulk messages; a filter sends them aside
  • Stream Play a song or a show without first fetching the whole thing
  • Tab One of several pages open side by side along the top
  • Upload Send a photo from your phone up to a site
  • URL Web address, for short
  • Website Group of related pages at one address
  • Wireless Connected with no cord, by radio waves

Coding Words 34

  • Algorithm Step-by-step plan for solving a problem
  • Array List of items reached by position: first, second, third
  • Boolean Value that is only true or false, named for a 19th-century English mathematician
  • Bracket One of a pair: ( ), [ ] or { }
  • Bug Mistake that makes a program misbehave; a moth found in a 1947 machine made the word famous
  • Command Single instruction to carry out
  • Comment Note for people that the machine skips
  • Compile Translate a whole program into machine language before it runs
  • Condition The "if" test that decides which way to go
  • Constant Value that never changes while the program runs
  • Decompose Split one hard task into several easy ones
  • Error Red line of text that reports a mistake
  • Event Something that sets instructions going, such as a press or a timer
  • Execute Run, as a machine does with its instructions
  • Flowchart Plan drawn with ovals, rectangles, diamonds and arrows
  • Function Reusable recipe with a name; call it and it does its job
  • Indent Push a line in from the margin
  • Input What goes in: a press, a number, a sensor reading
  • Integer Whole number
  • Iterate Go around again; repeat
  • Keyword Reserved word such as if, else or while
  • Logic Reasoning with and, or and not
  • Loop Instructions that run again and again
  • Nested Describes a repeat tucked inside another repeat
  • Operator Plus sign, minus sign or equals sign, for example
  • Output Results shown, printed or played
  • Parameter Blank in a recipe that is filled in each time it is used
  • Pseudocode Plan written in plain words before the real thing
  • Robot Machine that follows a program to move and sense
  • Script Short program; in block coding, one stack of joined blocks
  • Sequence Steps in the right order
  • String Run of characters, such as a word in quotation marks
  • Syntax Rules a line must follow to be understood, down to the last comma
  • Variable Name such as score or lives whose stored number can go up and down

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for computer labs and first coding classes: hardware, software, files and folders, the internet, and coding words. Every answer is an entry in Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org), and each technical fact was checked against English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 4.0) in October 2026. No company, product or programming language is named. No clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

These printable computer crossword puzzles come with answers: the key prints as the last sheet. They are vocabulary crosswords for a computer lab or a first coding class: hardware, software, files and folders, the internet and coding words.

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Five sets and a short one

Short Computer Words keeps answers to 5 letters or fewer: Byte, Loop, Icon, Spam. Hardware has Motherboard, Processor and Trackpad. Software has Firewall, Spreadsheet and Clipboard. Files and Folders has Extension, Thumbnail and Directory. The Internet has Hyperlink, Bandwidth and Phishing. Coding Words has Algorithm, Boolean and Pseudocode.

No brand names

The bank names no company, product or programming language, so the computer terms fit any lab, whatever machines it has.

Questions and answers

Where are the answers to the computer crossword?

On the last sheet of the print: the answer key shows the filled grid. Every clue and answer of the bank is also listed on this page under Show all clues and answers.

Is this a computer terms crossword puzzle, printable for middle school?

Yes, in our judgment, which is not a published standard: the five themed sets suit about grades 4 to 8, and Short Computer Words, with its word bank, suits grades 3 and 4.

Which computer terms are in the puzzle?

Parts such as Keyboard, Router and Processor; everyday words such as Folder, Password and Download; and coding words such as Loop, Variable and Algorithm.

Can I print only the coding words?

Yes. Choose Coding Words under Clue set, then Print. That set runs from Bug, Loop and Input to Boolean, Parameter and Pseudocode.

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