Farm Crossword Puzzle Printable

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Farm Crossword

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Answer key: Farm Crossword

1G2C3E4GGA5HOEOTI6APPLE7CAR8ROTKO9FOAL10CS11PASTURELE12FARMER

Across 3 EGG · 5 HOE · 6 APPLE · 7 CARROT · 9 FOAL · 11 PASTURE · 12 FARMER

Down 1 GATE · 2 CHICK · 4 GOAT · 8 ROOSTER · 10 CALF

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Farm Animals 18

  • Bull Grown male of the mooing kind
  • Cattle One word for cows, bulls and calves together
  • Chicken Bird that pecks and scratches in the yard
  • Cow She says moo and chews her cud
  • Donkey Long-eared worker whose loud call is a bray
  • Duck Quacking swimmer with a flat bill
  • Goat Nimble climber with a beard and horns
  • Goose Long-necked bird that honks
  • Honeybee Insect kept in boxes to make something sweet and to pollinate crops
  • Horse Animal that says neigh and is measured in hands
  • Llama Long-necked South American relative of the camel, used to carry packs
  • Mule Cross of two animals: its mother neighs and its father brays
  • Oxen Big, strong animals trained to pull loads in pairs
  • Pig Animal with a flat snout that roots in the mud and says oink
  • Pony Small, sturdy riding animal, a good size for a young rider
  • Rooster Male bird whose call is written cock-a-doodle-doo
  • Sheep Grazer that says baa and gets a haircut about once a year
  • Turkey Big bird that gobbles

Animal Families 31

  • Billy Father of kids
  • Boar Father of piglets
  • Brood Family of hatchlings raised together by one mother bird
  • Calf The young of cows
  • Chick Fluffy yellow hatchling
  • Colt Young male among horses
  • Drake Male among ducks
  • Duckling Downy hatchling that follows its mother to the water
  • Ewe Mother of lambs
  • Filly Young female among horses
  • Flock Group of hens, geese or woolly grazers
  • Foal The young of horses
  • Gander Male among geese
  • Gosling The young of geese
  • Heifer Young female of the mooing kind, before she has young of her own
  • Hen Clucking mother bird
  • Herd Group of cows or horses
  • Jenny Female among donkeys
  • Kid The young of goats
  • Lamb Woolly youngster that bleats beside its mother
  • Litter All the newborn piglets of one mother, counted together
  • Livestock Animals kept on the land for work or for food
  • Mare Mother of foals
  • Nanny Mother of kids
  • Piglet One of the squealing young of hogs
  • Poult The young of turkeys
  • Poultry Birds kept for eggs and meat
  • Ram Father of lambs, often with curled horns
  • Sow Mother of piglets
  • Stallion Father of foals
  • Tom Male among turkeys

Crops and Garden 36

  • Alfalfa Deep-rooted legume with purple flowers, mown and dried to feed cows
  • Apple Crisp red, green or yellow fruit with a core
  • Bale Big tight bundle of dried grass, round or square, tied with twine
  • Barley One of the first cereals ever farmed, now used mostly for animal feed and malt
  • Beet Dark red root vegetable
  • Cabbage Leafy vegetable that grows in a tight round head
  • Carrot Long orange root with a leafy green top
  • Chaff Light, dry scraps that the wind blows away at threshing
  • Clover Three-leaved plant that puts nitrogen back in the ground
  • Cob The core that kernels grow on
  • Corn Tall plant with yellow kernels on ears
  • Cotton Plant grown for the soft white fluff in its bolls
  • Crop Plants grown in quantity to sell or to eat
  • Ear The part of a maize plant that holds the kernels
  • Grain The small, hard seeds gathered from cereal plants
  • Hay Mown grass dried in the sun and stored as animal feed
  • Husk Dry outer wrapper peeled away to get at the kernels
  • Kernel One of the yellow bits of maize; heat makes one kind pop
  • Oats Cereal rolled to make oatmeal and also fed to animals
  • Peanut Its pods ripen under the ground, though it is a legume and not a true nut
  • Peas Green seeds shelled from a pod
  • Potato Starchy tuber dug from under the ground
  • Pumpkin Big, round, orange fruit picked in the fall
  • Rice Cereal whose lowland fields are flooded a few centimeters deep
  • Rye Cereal that stands cold weather and poor ground better than the others
  • Seed Small beginning of a plant, with food stored inside its coat
  • Sheaf Bundle of cut cereal stalks bound together after reaping
  • Soil Top layer of earth that roots grow in
  • Soybean Plant from East Asia grown for oil and animal feed
  • Sprout A young plant's first shoot as it comes up
  • Stalk The tall main stem of a cereal plant
  • Straw Dry stalks left after threshing, used for bedding
  • Turnip White root vegetable, purple where it pokes above the ground
  • Vine Long stem that trails over the ground or climbs, as on a grape plant
  • Weed Plant growing where nobody wants it
  • Wheat Golden cereal that most bread is made from

Machines and Tools 29

  • Baler Machine that presses dried grass into tight bundles
  • Bridle Headgear with a bit and reins for guiding a ridden animal
  • Cart Two-wheeled vehicle for hauling
  • Churn Tub worked by a crank or a plunger until cream turns solid
  • Combine Big harvesting machine that does the cutting, threshing and cleaning as it drives along
  • Flail Hand tool of two hinged sticks for beating seeds out of the stalks
  • Halter Rope or strap headgear for leading an animal
  • Harness Set of straps that hitches an animal to its load
  • Harrow Frame of teeth or disks dragged over plowed ground to break up clods
  • Hoe Flat blade on a long handle for chopping weeds
  • Mower Grass-cutting machine driven back and forth across the land
  • Pail Bucket with a handle
  • Pitchfork Long-handled tool with thin tines for tossing dried grass
  • Planter Machine that drops seeds in rows
  • Plow Blade pulled through the ground to turn it over before planting
  • Rake Row of teeth on a long handle for gathering cut grass
  • Saddle Leather seat strapped on for riding
  • Scythe Long curved blade swung with two hands to mow
  • Shears Big clippers used to cut off a woolly coat
  • Shovel Scoop on a handle for digging and lifting
  • Sickle Short curved blade held in one hand for cutting stalks
  • Spade Flat-bladed tool pushed into the ground with a foot
  • Sprinkler Device that waters the land with a spray
  • Thresher Machine that beats the seeds loose from the stalks
  • Tractor Powerful vehicle that pulls heavy machinery
  • Trailer Wheeled platform towed behind a pulling vehicle
  • Wagon Four-wheeled vehicle for hauling heavy loads
  • Wheelbarrow One-wheeled load carrier pushed by its two handles
  • Yoke Wooden bar across the necks of a pair of pulling animals

Barns, Fields and Fences 36

  • Acre Land measure of 43,560 square feet, 640 of them to a square mile
  • Barn Large building for housing animals and storing feed and machinery
  • Cellar Root ___: cool underground room for storing vegetables
  • Coop Small house where hens are shut in safe at night
  • Corral Fenced ring for rounding up and holding horses or cows
  • Dairy Place where what the milking cows give is kept and made into food
  • Farmhouse Home of the family that works the land
  • Fence Barrier of rails or wire that keeps animals in
  • Field Open piece of land that is plowed and planted
  • Furrow Narrow trench cut in the ground for planting
  • Gate Hinged barrier you swing open to drive through
  • Granary Storehouse for threshed cereal
  • Greenhouse Glass house where seedlings get an early, warm start
  • Hedge Row of bushes planted as a living boundary
  • Hive Box where a colony of bees lives and stores its sweet food
  • Hutch Box-like cage for rabbits
  • Loft Upper floor under the roof, where dried grass is stored
  • Manger Open box that holds feed for horses or cows to eat from
  • Meadow Grassy land left to grow tall, then mown
  • Nest Hollow bed where a bird lays
  • Orchard Land planted with pear, peach or cherry trees
  • Paddock Small fenced plot where horses exercise
  • Pasture Grassland where the cows are turned out to eat
  • Pen Small enclosure for animals
  • Pond Pool of still water where animals come to drink
  • Ranch Large spread of grazing land for raising cows or horses
  • Roost Perch where birds settle for the night
  • Scarecrow Figure in old clothes set up to frighten birds away from seeds
  • Shed Simple building for storing tools
  • Silo Tall tower, often round, filled with stored feed
  • Stable Building with stalls for horses
  • Stall One animal's own compartment inside a building
  • Sty Enclosure where hogs are kept
  • Trough Long open container that holds water or feed for animals
  • Well Deep hole that reaches water under the ground
  • Windmill Tower with turning blades, used to pump water or to grind

Farm Work and Farm Food 32

  • Bushel Dry measure equal to four pecks or eight gallons
  • Butter Yellow spread that forms when cream is beaten long enough
  • Cheese Food made by separating curds from whey and pressing them
  • Chores Daily jobs such as feeding and cleaning out
  • Cider Cloudy fall drink pressed from apples
  • Compost Rotted plant waste dug in to feed the ground
  • Drought Long spell without enough rain for plants to grow
  • Egg Breakfast food that comes in its own shell
  • Farmer Person who works the land for a living
  • Farmhand Hired worker on the land
  • Fertilizer Plant food added to the ground
  • Fleece A woolly coat cut off in one piece
  • Flour Powder ground from cereal, used for baking
  • Fodder Dried or stored food for animals
  • Graze To feed on growing grass
  • Harvest Bringing in the ripe plants at the end of the growing season
  • Hatch To come out into the world by cracking a shell
  • Honey Thick golden sweetener taken from the comb
  • Irrigate To bring water to dry land through ditches, pipes or sprinklers
  • Manure Animal dung spread on the land to feed it
  • Market Place where a grower sells produce
  • Milk White drink squeezed from an udder
  • Mill Building where cereal is ground to powder
  • Mulch Loose cover of chips, leaves or bark laid on the ground to hold in moisture
  • Rancher Owner of a large spread where grazing animals are raised
  • Reap To cut ripe cereal plants at the end of the season
  • Shepherd Person who tends and guards woolly grazers
  • Silage Green feed preserved by fermenting it in an airtight store
  • Till To work the ground to get it ready for planting
  • Veterinarian Doctor called when an animal is sick
  • Wool Fiber spun into yarn for sweaters
  • Yield The amount that a piece of land or an animal produces

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for elementary classes. Every word and meaning was checked in Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org), and the facts about animals, crops and tools in English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 4.0), in October 2026. The words follow American usage, so Corn means maize and Cider is the fresh-pressed drink. No clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This farm crossword puzzle printable opens on words a young child knows: Barn, Tractor, Cow, Hay. It is a vocabulary crossword, and six more sets carry a farm unit from animal families to harvest.

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Six sets and an easy one

Farm Animals has Donkey, Oxen and Llama. Animal Families has young and parents: Calf, Ewe, Gander, Poult. Crops and Garden has Barley, Husk and Sheaf. Machines and Tools has Combine, Harrow and Scythe. Barns, Fields and Fences has Silo, Paddock and Trough. Farm Work and Farm Food has Graze, Silage and Bushel.

Animal clues without a giveaway

The family clues never give another answer away: the young of goats is Kid, the mother of lambs is Ewe, and a Mule is the cross whose mother neighs and whose father brays. Corn means maize, as on American farms.

  • After a farm visit, print Barns, Fields and Fences: children solve clues for things they saw, such as Silo, Coop and Trough.

Questions and answers

Is there a free printable farm crossword puzzle with an answer key?

Yes, free and with no sign-up. Print gives the puzzle first and the answer key last, so you can hand out one and keep the other. The sheets fit Letter or A4.

What age is the farm crossword for?

Easy Farm Words suits grades 1 to 3 and the other sets grades 3 to 6, in our judgment, which is not a published standard.

Is there a farm animals crossword?

Yes. Choose Farm Animals under Clue set for Pig, Goose and Donkey, or Animal Families for young, mothers and fathers, such as Foal, Mare and Stallion. Pets and wild animals are in the animal crossword.

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