November Crossword Puzzles for Kids

Print a criss-cross vocabulary crossword for November: Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, late fall outdoors and dates of the month.

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  • Acorn
  • Ballot
  • Chrysanthemum
  • Election
  • Eleventh
  • Frost
  • Gratitude
  • Harvest
  • Nine
  • Topaz
  • Turkey
  • Veterans

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Answer key: November Crossword

1B2F3ACORNRL4H5TOLAUSO6TR7GRATITUD8EOVKLPEE9N10VETERANSYIVZTNE11ELECTIONT12CHRYSANTHEMUM

Across 3 ACORN · 7 GRATITUDE · 10 VETERANS · 11 ELECTION · 12 CHRYSANTHEMUM

Down 1 BALLOT · 2 FROST · 4 HARVEST · 5 TURKEY · 6 TOPAZ · 8 ELEVENTH · 9 NINE

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Calendar, Sky and Birthstones 21

  • Archer Figure with a drawn bow that stands for the sign beginning on November 22
  • Autumn British word for the season Americans call fall
  • China Land where November's birth flower was first raised, some 3,500 years ago
  • Chrysanthemum November's birth flower, called a mum for short
  • Citrine November's second gem, named after the citron tree
  • Comet Icy visitor that returns every 33 years; Earth crosses its dust each November
  • December Month that November comes just before
  • Eleventh November is this in line, with one more to go
  • Leonids Meteors that peak in mid-November
  • Lion Animal of the star group November's meteors fly from
  • Nine The number hidden in November's name
  • Ninth November's place in the first Roman calendar
  • Penultimate Next to last, as November is among the months
  • Repeated What the hour from 1 to 2 in the morning is when the clocks go back
  • Sagittarius Star sign that takes over on November 22
  • Scorpio Star sign of anyone born from November 1 to 21
  • Standard "___ time": what most American clocks return to in early November
  • Storm "Meteor ___": a burst of a thousand or more shooting stars an hour, as in November 1833
  • Sunday Most American clocks go back an hour on the first one of November
  • Thirty How many days November has
  • Topaz Gem for people born in November

Election Day 25

  • Absentee Word for a voter who is away on the big day and mails the choice in
  • Australia Country that gave private voting its other name; Tasmania used the method in 1856
  • Ballot Voting slip; the word once meant a small ball
  • Candidate Person whose name is printed on the yard signs
  • Congress All 435 seats of its lower chamber are filled in November of each even-numbered year
  • Election Day in early November when leaders are chosen
  • Exit "___ poll": survey of people who have just left the voting place
  • Governor Whoever wins a state's highest office
  • Incumbent The current holder of an office
  • Landslide Win by a huge margin, named for a rush of earth down a hill
  • Majority Over half of all the votes
  • Mayor Leader who cuts the ribbon on a new town library
  • Midterm Kind of November voting held near the middle of a four-year White House stay
  • Monday The day for choosing leaders always comes one day after the first ___ of November
  • Oath Words a winner repeats, hand raised, before starting the job
  • Plurality More than any rival got, yet under half
  • Precinct Area whose residents all cast their choices in the same room
  • Recount What the losing side may ask for when two totals are a handful apart
  • Register Sign up on the voter rolls ahead of the deadline
  • Runoff Extra round between the top two finishers
  • Secret What your choice stays when you mark it alone behind a screen
  • Sticker Peel-off badge a grown-up wears home from the polls
  • Telegraph Invention tested in 1844 that pushed lawmakers to set one nationwide day for choosing electors
  • Tuesday Day chosen so that people could travel on the day before and be back for Wednesday's market
  • Turnout Share of the people allowed to take part who really did

Veterans Day and Thanksgiving 23

  • Armistice Truce signed in a railroad car in a French forest in 1918
  • Cornucopia Curved horn with squash and grapes tumbling out, on a table centerpiece
  • Cranberry Tart red fruit of acid bogs, boiled with sugar for the big dinner
  • Feast A meal big enough to need two tables
  • Gobble A tom's call, which gives him his other name
  • Gratitude The opposite of taking things for granted
  • Gravy It is ladled from a boat-shaped jug
  • Harvest Bringing in of corn and squash before the freeze
  • Kansas Home state of the congressman who presented the 1954 bill for the November 11 holiday
  • Leftovers The big meal, back again in the next day's sandwiches
  • Marines Their Corps counts November 10, 1775, as its birthday
  • Medal Ribboned disk pinned to a dress coat
  • Parade Flags, drums and old soldiers coming down the avenue
  • Pardon Mock act of mercy that sends a lucky bird to live out its days at a park or campus
  • Poult A tom's chick
  • Proclamation Lincoln's of 1863 set a yearly Thanksgiving for late November
  • Snood Soft strip that dangles from a tom's beak
  • Thursday Lincoln's 1863 holiday fell on the last one of November
  • Turkey Big bird whose male is called a tom
  • Uniform Pressed jacket and trousers with brass buttons and a name tape
  • Veterans Former soldiers and sailors, honored on November 11
  • Wattle Dangling skin on the head or neck of some birds
  • Wishbone Y-shaped bone that most birds have; its Latin name means little fork

Late Fall Outdoors 20

  • Acorn What a jay carries off from under an oak
  • Antlers Rack carried by a bull elk
  • Bare Like branches after the last leaf drops
  • Cider What a mill squeezes out of a load of apples
  • Deciduous Like an oak or maple, but not a pine: leafless for part of the year
  • Drizzle Rain so fine it only dampens your coat
  • Dusk Last light of day; it arrives an hour sooner by the clock in early November
  • Evergreen A pine or spruce is one; a maple is not
  • Firewood Cord of split oak under a tarp
  • Flannel A lumberjack's checked top is made of it
  • Flock Hundreds of starlings wheeling as one
  • Fog Gray blanket that swallows the far goalpost on a damp morning
  • Frost It whitens the car windshield overnight
  • Geese Their V-shaped lines cross the sky on the way south
  • Kindling Twigs and splinters laid under the logs to catch the match flame
  • Migration Trip that some birds make twice a year, to their breeding grounds and back
  • Mulch Wood chips tucked around the rose bushes before the first freeze
  • Pecan Nut of a tree that is native to the lands along the Mississippi; a favorite in pies
  • Squirrel Tree climber that hides nuts under the leaf litter
  • Woolly Like a thick sweater, or a sheep's coat

Dates in November 23

  • Articles "The ___ of Confederation", an early plan of government, were finished on November 15, 1777
  • Berlin City whose wall was opened on November 9, 1989
  • Capitol Where the lawmakers of the United States first sat in their new city on November 17, 1800
  • Carolina North ___ became the 12th state on November 21, 1789
  • Children "World ___ Day", November 20, recalls a United Nations declaration of 1959
  • Dakota North and South ___ both became states on November 2, 1889
  • Kindness Its world day, November 13, began in 1998
  • Mayflower Ship whose passengers reached Cape Cod in November 1620
  • Montana It became the 41st state on November 8, 1889
  • Oklahoma It became the 46th state on November 16, 1907
  • Pacific Ocean that Lewis and Clark's party first sighted on November 7, 1805
  • Score "Four ___ and seven years ago": opening words of a speech given on November 19, 1863
  • Species "On the Origin of ___": Darwin's book came out on November 24, 1859
  • Station "Space ___": its first long-stay crew arrived on November 2, 2000
  • Strait Sea lane between two shores; Magellan's fleet entered the one named for him on November 1, 1520
  • Suez Canal first celebrated with fireworks at Port Said on November 15, 1869
  • Television Its world day is November 21
  • Toilet "World ___ Day", November 19, has been an official United Nations day since 2013
  • Tolerance Its international day, declared by UNESCO, is November 16
  • Tomb A worker uncovered the first step down to Tutankhamun's on November 4, 1922
  • Washington It became the 42nd state on November 11, 1889
  • X-ray Kind of ray first noticed in a German laboratory on November 8, 1895
  • Zones "Time ___": the day they took effect, November 18, 1883, was called the Day of Two Noons

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grades 3 to 8. Calendar, sky, election, holiday and date clues were checked against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); the clock change also against NIST, Veterans Day against the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thanksgiving against the National Archives and the meteor shower against NASA, in October 2026. Election and clock clues describe the United States, and the weather is that of the Northern Hemisphere. Licence: own work

How it works

These November crossword puzzles for kids fit Letter or A4, with a word bank and the answer key. The first puzzle has 12 words, among them Turkey, Gratitude, Topaz, Chrysanthemum, Election, Veterans and Harvest.

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Five sets after the first words

Calendar, Sky and Birthstones has Scorpio, Citrine, Leonids and Penultimate. Election Day has Ballot, Precinct, Runoff and Incumbent. Veterans Day and Thanksgiving has Armistice, Marines, Wishbone and Cornucopia. Late Fall Outdoors has Acorn, Deciduous, Kindling and Migration. Dates in November has Montana, Oklahoma, Suez and Zones.

Facts to look up

Older classes can check the dates set against an almanac: North Dakota and South Dakota became states on the same day, November 2, 1889, and North American railroads began keeping time zones on November 18, 1883.

  • Thanksgiving and Veterans Day share one set here. The Thanksgiving crossword and the Veterans Day crossword, separate pages, have the rest.

Questions and answers

Are these printable November crossword puzzles free?

Yes, and there is no account to make. Press Print; the answer key comes out as the last sheet.

What grade are the November crossword puzzles for?

First November Words, with its word bank, suits grades 3 to 5. The five themed sets suit grades 4 to 8, and Election Day asks the most. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Why is November called November?

The name comes from the Latin word for nine. November was the ninth month of the early Roman calendar and kept its name after January and February were added. Nine and Ninth are answers.

What are the birthstone and birth flower for November?

The birthstones are topaz and citrine, and the birth flower is the chrysanthemum. All three are answers.

Why is Election Day in November?

A law of 1845 set it as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The harvest was in, the worst winter weather had not come, and Tuesday left Monday for travel to the polls.

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