June Crossword Puzzle

Print a criss-cross vocabulary crossword for June: graduation, roses and fireflies, the solstice, Juno and dates.

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Answer key: June Crossword

1C2C3DAD4FLAGMIP5PEARLE6VFA7SOLSTICEYA8JTU9G10RADUATIONOOO11SUNSHINEE

Across 3 DAD · 4 FLAG · 5 PEARL · 7 SOLSTICE · 9 GRADUATION · 11 SUNSHINE

Down 1 CAMP · 2 CAP · 4 FIREFLY · 6 VACATION · 8 JUNO · 10 ROSE

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Graduation and the Last Bell 22

  • Alumni What the class becomes the minute the ceremony is over
  • Applause Clapping that swells as each name is read
  • Autograph A name scrawled on the last page in a friend's handwriting
  • Bell The last one of the year sets a whole building free
  • Camp Bunks, a lake and a mess hall, for a week or all of July
  • Cap Flat-topped hat that flies into the air when the ceremony ends
  • Commencement Name on the printed program for the June ceremony; it means a start
  • Diploma Paper in a folder, handed over with a handshake on stage
  • Field day Afternoon of sack races, relays and tug-of-war on the playground
  • Finals Exam week that stands between a twelfth grader and the summer
  • Gown Robe in the class color that hides your good clothes in all the photos
  • Graduation Ceremony with a march, some music and a handshake on stage
  • Mortarboard Flat square hat that takes its name from a mason's tray
  • Podium Low block that lifts one person above the rest of the band
  • Procession Slow march into the gym, two by two
  • Report card Envelope of grades carried home on the last day
  • Salutatorian Graduate ranked second in the class
  • Speech Five minutes of advice into a microphone
  • Tassel Dangling cord that the whole class flips from right to left together
  • Vacation Weeks with no homework, starting when the building empties in June
  • Valedictorian Head of the class by grade point, and by custom its closing speaker
  • Yearbook Hardcover record of twelfth grade, face after face, club after club

Roses, Berries and Fireflies 24

  • Apricot Velvet-skinned cousin of the plum, in season by June
  • Asparagus Garden crop cut as finger-thick stalks while they are still tender
  • Beetle "June bug" is a common name for this kind of insect, a brown one that turns up as summer starts
  • Blueberry Small round fruit with a dusty skin, good in pancakes
  • Bullfrog Big pond frog named for a call like the bellow of a farm animal
  • Cherry Stemmed red fruit hung over an ear as a pretend earring
  • Clover Small pink or white pom-pom flower in an unmown lawn
  • Fawn Baby of the doe, wobbly on its legs for the first days
  • Firefly Lightning bug: it blinks over the lawn at twilight
  • Fledgling Bird fresh out of the nest and still a clumsy flier
  • Glow What embers and lightning bugs do in the dark
  • Honeysuckle Twining vine that shares June birthdays with a thorny garden favorite
  • Hurricane Weather forecasters start a six-month watch for this on June 1
  • Ladybug Spotted red dome that tickles as it climbs your wrist
  • Lavender Herb of the sage family, grown for its oil
  • Lemonade What a kid with a card table and a pitcher sells for a quarter
  • Lettuce What goes under the tomato on a burger, or into the salad bowl first
  • Mosquito Its whine in your ear means that a bite may follow
  • Peony Bush whose bowl-sized blooms flop over after a week of glory
  • Picnic Sandwiches on a blanket, with ants on the way
  • Radish Round red root that bites back when you crunch it
  • Rose Flower of June birthdays, sold by the dozen
  • Strawberry June's best-loved fruit, sliced over shortcake
  • Thorn What pricks a thumb reaching into a bramble

Calendar, Sky and Birthstones 21

  • Alexandrite June gem famous for changing color when the light changes
  • Arctic Sea and land at the top of the globe, bright all night in late June
  • Arietids Daytime shower of meteors that peaks around June 7
  • Castor Brother of Pollux in Greek myth; both names shine in Gemini
  • Crab Animal of Cancer, the sign from June 22
  • Longest Kind of day the north has around June 21
  • Midnight Hour at which the June sun can still be seen in the farthest north
  • Mollusk Shell builder with a soft body and no backbone
  • Moonstone June gem with a floating blue sheen, a kind of feldspar
  • Nacre Shimmering shell lining, the same stuff that June's gem is made of
  • Pearl Round white gem of June birthdays, weighed in carats like a diamond
  • Polar ___ night: in late June the Sun stays below the horizon inside the Antarctic Circle
  • Sixth June's place in the year, the last of the first half
  • Solstice Late-June turning point; the word means the Sun standing still
  • Stonehenge English ring of great sarsens lined up with sunrise at midsummer
  • Sunshine What pours through the window at five on a June morning
  • Tilt What a globe's stand gives it: a lean of about 23 degrees
  • Tropic ___ of Cancer: line on the globe that the noon Sun reaches in late June and never passes
  • Twins Pair pictured for Gemini, the sign through June 21
  • Winter Season that June opens in Cape Town and Auckland
  • Zenith Top of the sky's dome, opposite the ground under your feet

Juno and the Roman Year 17

  • Fourth Place of June in the earliest Roman year
  • Geese Sacred birds whose noise, in legend, warned Rome of a night attack
  • Germanicus Name that June carried for a short time from AD 65
  • Hearth Where the family fire burns; Rome honored the goddess of it each June
  • Hera Greek counterpart of the goddess who named June
  • Juno Goddess called Regina, whose name June still carries
  • Jupiter Husband of June's goddess and ruler of the gods of Rome
  • Marriage What June's goddess watched over, along with childbirth
  • Mars Roman god of war, son of June's goddess
  • Mint Coin factory; Rome's first stood beside a temple of June's goddess
  • Money English word that grew from a Roman title of June's goddess
  • Nero Emperor in whose honor June was briefly renamed in AD 65
  • Ovid Roman poet who was told to hold his daughter's wedding after June 15
  • Peacock Bird with eye-spots in its train, the emblem of June's goddess
  • Queen Rank of June's goddess among the gods of Rome
  • Twenty-nine Length in days of the old Roman June, one short of today's
  • Vesta Roman goddess whose festival ran from June 7 to June 15

Dates in June 24

  • Arkansas It became state number 25 on June 15, 1836
  • Asteroid Minor planet; the day named for these falls on June 30
  • Bicycle Two-wheeler given a United Nations day, June 3, in 2018
  • Charter Deed from a king; the most famous was sealed in an English meadow on June 15, 1215
  • Dad Pop, who gets breakfast in bed one Sunday each June
  • Drive-in Parking lot with a giant screen; the first opened in New Jersey on June 6, 1933
  • Environment Earth's air, seas and wild places, taken together; June 5 has been its world day since 1973
  • Flag ___ Day, June 14, marks a vote of Congress in 1777
  • Highway Interstate ___ System, started by a law signed on June 29, 1956
  • Kentucky Once the western end of Virginia, it became the fifteenth state on June 1, 1792
  • Liberty Statue of ___, which reached New York in crates on June 17, 1885
  • New Hampshire Its yes on June 21, 1788, made nine states for the Constitution
  • Normandy Province across the Channel from England, reached by a great fleet on June 6, 1944
  • Oceans World ___ Day, June 8, is for the salt water that covers most of the globe
  • Refugee Someone who has had to flee home; the United Nations marks June 20 for them
  • Ride Sally ___, first American woman to fly in space, who lifted off on June 18, 1983
  • Runnymede Field near Windsor where a king and his barons made terms in June 1215
  • Stripes Thirteen of these, in two colors by turns, were ordered by Congress on June 14, 1777
  • Tennessee The Volunteer State, the sixteenth, in the Union since June 1, 1796
  • Tightrope High wire on which Blondin crossed the Niagara Gorge on June 30, 1859
  • Tunguska Siberian blast of June 30, 1908, that leveled a forest
  • Typewriter Writing machine for which Sholes and two partners won a patent on June 23, 1868
  • Venus Planet that crossed the face of the Sun in June 2004 and June 2012
  • West Virginia With Nevada, one of two states that joined during the Civil War; its day was June 20, 1863

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 hurricane clue against NOAA's National Hurricane Center, and the flag clues against the Department of Veterans Affairs sheet on Flag Day, in October 2026. School clues describe schools in the United States, and the weather is that of the Northern Hemisphere. Father's Day has one word; no faith's holiday is an answer. Licence: own work

How it works

This June crossword puzzle starts with a dozen words, among them Solstice, Graduation, Pearl, Rose, Flag and Vacation. One whole set is graduation and the last day.

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Five more sets

Graduation and the Last Bell has Diploma, Tassel, Mortarboard and Valedictorian. Roses, Berries and Fireflies has Honeysuckle, Fledgling, Bullfrog and Peony. Calendar, Sky and Birthstones has Tropic, Nacre, Moonstone and Stonehenge. Juno and the Roman Year has Peacock, Vesta, Ovid and Germanicus. Dates in June has Stripes, Runnymede, Tunguska and Tightrope.

Look these up

Older classes can test two clues against an almanac: Congress adopted the flag on June 14, 1777, and Magna Carta was sealed on June 15, 1215.

  • Father's Day has one word here, Dad. The Father's Day crossword, a separate page, has the rest.

Questions and answers

Does the June crossword puzzle print with an answer key?

Yes. The answer key is the last sheet of the print, after the grid and the clues. Free, with no account.

What grade is the June crossword puzzle for?

Start grades 4 to 6 on First June Words. Graduation and the Last Bell suits grades 5 and up, and Juno and the Roman Year asks the most. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Why is June called June?

The Romans named the month for Juno, the queen of their gods and a goddess of marriage. Juno, Queen and Marriage are all answers.

What are the birthstone and birth flower for June?

In the United States the birthstones are pearl, moonstone and alexandrite, and the birth flowers are the rose and the honeysuckle. All five are answers, along with Nacre, the material a pearl is made of.

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