September Crossword Puzzle

Print a criss-cross vocabulary crossword for September: the classroom, the harvest, the equinox, Roman numbers and dates.

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September Crossword

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Answer key: September Crossword

1SEV2APPLECNO3HARV4EST5BNQUU6P7S8APPHIRE9LUNN10ASTEROCBUXIOMLR11NINTH

Across 2 APPLE · 3 HARVEST · 7 SAPPHIRE · 10 ASTER · 11 NINTH

Down 1 SEVEN · 2 ACORN · 4 EQUINOX · 5 BUS · 6 PENCIL · 8 AUTUMN · 9 LABOR

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Back in the Classroom 22

  • Alphabet A through Z on a paper banner above the board
  • Bus Its stop arm swings out and its red lights flash at the curb
  • Cafeteria Where the lunch line ends at a cash register
  • Chalk It squeaks on the board and powders a sleeve
  • Cursive Loopy script in which the pen seldom leaves the page
  • Eraser It leaves pink crumbs where a wrong answer used to be
  • Freshman Newcomer to the high school hallways, a year behind the sophomores
  • Homeroom First stop of the morning, where the roll is called
  • Kindergarten Grade before first, an idea named in Germany in 1840
  • Locker Narrow steel door in a row of hundreds, each with a combination
  • Lunchbox Latched case with a sandwich, a napkin and maybe a note
  • Pencil It starts the year long and ends it as a chewed stub
  • Principal School leader who signs the report cards and reads the announcements
  • Recess A burst of tag and four square between lessons
  • Roster Sheet on the attendance clipboard
  • Schedule Grid on a slip of paper that says where to be in third period
  • Semester One of the two terms in many academic calendars
  • Sharpener Crank on the wall that leaves curls of wood shavings
  • Supplies Glue sticks, folders and markers on the shopping list
  • Syllabus Handout that maps a course from September to the final
  • Teacher Grown-up who learns a whole room of new names in week one
  • Yellow Hue of a ripe banana and, since a meeting in 1939, of the school fleet

Harvest, Leaves and Flyways 28

  • Acorn Nut in a scaly cup that drops from an oak
  • Apple Fruit shined on a sleeve and left on the desk in the first week
  • Aster Late bloomer of September birthdays, named for its flower's shape
  • Barley Crop for which the Anglo-Saxons are said to have named September
  • Chrysalis Hanging case in which a butterfly-to-be spends its quiet weeks
  • Cider What the mill's wooden press squeezes out, brown and cloudy
  • Combine Machine whose name tells that it does several field jobs at once
  • Cranberry Tart red fruit of northern bogs
  • Dew It soaks your sneakers on the walk across the grass
  • Flyway Aerial highway that traveling flocks follow year after year
  • Fog Gray blanket in the valley that the sun burns off by midmorning
  • Forget-me-not Its name is a three-word request; Alaska put it on the list of state symbols
  • Geese Honkers that cross the evening sky in a long V
  • Goldenrod Tall weed whose mustard-colored plumes line the roadsides as classes start
  • Grain What pours from a wagon into the silo: wheat, oats or rye
  • Grapes Fruit whose picking stands for September in Roman art
  • Harvest The year's big job on a farm, when loaded wagons roll in from the fields until dark
  • Hurricane Named whirlwind from the tropics, likeliest around September 10
  • Leaf It lets go of its twig and spins to the sidewalk
  • Maple Tree with hand-shaped leaves that blaze red in fall
  • Migrate What warblers and hummingbirds do while you are busy with homework
  • Monarch The common tiger, by another of its names: a traveler seen heading south in fall
  • Morning glory Twining vine among September's birth flowers, named for the hour it opens
  • Orchard Where a family fills a bag at a pick-your-own farm
  • Pumpkin Orange globe swelling on a vine between the corn rows
  • Squirrel Gray acrobat of the branches, busy burying nuts
  • Swallow Fork-tailed flier that lines up on the wires before a long trip
  • Web Orb of silk that catches the dawn light in a hedge

Calendar, Sky and Birthstones 20

  • Autumn Season that forecasters start on September 1
  • Berlin City whose observatory first picked out the eighth planet, in September 1846
  • Corundum Mineral behind both September's blue gem and its red twin
  • Daylight What the north loses a few minutes of each September day
  • Dusk Dim half hour when the porch lights come on
  • Equator Where latitude is counted from
  • Equinox Around September 22, the hours of light and dark balance
  • March Sydney's September weather is most like New York's in this month
  • Moon Its full phase in early fall is named for late work in the fields
  • Neptune Giant world found on September 23, 1846, close to where a mathematician said to look
  • Ninth September's rank in the year, with three months still to come
  • Ruby Red gem that is the same mineral as September's blue one
  • Sapphire Gem of September birthdays, best known in deep blue
  • Scales Balance pictured for Libra, whose turn begins September 23
  • Spring What September 1 brings to Sydney and Buenos Aires
  • Sunset Orange end of the day, noticeably earlier by the last week of September
  • Thirty Count of the days in September
  • Twilight Soft glow that lingers after the sun is down
  • Verse The old one that begins with September's name teaches how long each month is
  • Virgo Star sign of everyone born from September 1 to 22

Seven and the Roman Year 17

  • Actium Naval clash in the Ionian Sea on September 2, 31 BC
  • Augustus Ruler born on September 23, 63 BC, for whom the eighth month was renamed
  • Banquet Public meal that Romans laid for their chief god on the 13th of September
  • Calends Day one of September, to a Roman
  • Chariot Two-wheeled racing cart of Rome's largest stadium
  • Charlemagne Frankish ruler whose calendar called September the wood month
  • Eight What the oct in October stands for
  • Eleven Days dropped from September 1752 in Britain and its colonies
  • Games Roman ___: races and shows that filled half the ancient September
  • Gregorian Calendar that the British Empire adopted in 1752
  • Ides Roman name for the 13th of September
  • Julian Name of the reform that lengthened September from 29 days
  • Jupiter Chief Roman god, feasted in public on September 13
  • Latin Language in which the month's name is a number
  • Nine What the nov in November stands for
  • Seven Number hidden in the name September
  • Ten What the dec in December stands for

Dates in September 19

  • Bakery Where the Great Fire of London began, soon after midnight on September 2, 1666
  • California The 31st state, a free state since September 9, 1850
  • Citizen What a newcomer becomes at a swearing-in; September 17 honors each one
  • Constitution Document whose 39 signers put down their pens on September 17, 1787
  • Court Supreme ___, given six justices by a law of September 24, 1789
  • Debris What searchers saw on their screens on September 1, 1985: pieces of the Titanic
  • Democracy Rule by the people, with a United Nations day on September 15
  • Grandparents Nana and Pop-Pop, whose national day follows the first Monday of September by six days
  • Labor ___ Day: a Monday off for workers as September begins
  • Literacy Being able to read and write, honored by UNESCO each September 8
  • Ozone Gas of the high layer protected by a treaty signed on September 16, 1987
  • Paris City on the Seine where Britain recognized American independence on September 3, 1783
  • Peace International Day of ___, September 21, opens with a bell at the United Nations
  • Philadelphia City of Independence Hall, busy with pens on September 17, 1787
  • Saturn World where the Cassini craft ended its long tour with a plunge on September 15, 2017
  • Sequoia The country's second national park, created on September 25, 1890
  • Tourism Travel for pleasure, with a world day on September 27
  • Victoria Only ship of Magellan's fleet to finish the trip around the world, on September 6, 1522
  • Voyager Spacecraft number 1 of this name left for the outer planets on September 5, 1977

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

How it works

Twelve words open this September crossword puzzle, among them Bus, Equinox, Harvest, Sapphire, Aster and Labor. One whole set is the classroom in the first weeks.

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The sets behind the first twelve

Back in the Classroom has Homeroom, Syllabus, Cursive and Sharpener. Harvest, Leaves and Flyways has Orchard, Barley, Chrysalis and Cranberry. Calendar, Sky and Birthstones has Corundum, Virgo, Neptune and Twilight. Seven and the Roman Year has Chariot, Jupiter, Eleven and Calends. Dates in September has Constitution, California, Ozone and Saturn.

An almanac check

Two dates for older classes to confirm: 39 delegates signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850.

  • Labor Day has one word here, Labor. The Labor Day crossword, a separate page, has the rest.

Questions and answers

Can I print the September crossword puzzle with its answers?

Yes. Press Print: the grid and clues come first and the answer key is the last sheet. It is free and needs no account.

What grade is the September crossword puzzle for?

First September Words and Back in the Classroom work from about grade 4. The other sets fit grades 5 to 8, and Seven and the Roman Year is the hardest. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Why is September called September when it is the ninth month?

Its name holds the Latin word for seven. September was the seventh month of the oldest Roman calendar, which began in March, and it kept the name after January and February were added. Seven and Ninth are both answers.

What are the birthstone and birth flower for September?

The birthstone is the sapphire, and the birth flowers are the aster, the morning glory and the forget-me-not. All four are answers, along with Corundum, the mineral that sapphire is a variety of.

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