Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle to Print or Solve

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Thanksgiving Crossword

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Answer key: Thanksgiving Crossword

1RECIPEOL2C3LEFTOVERSSA4WISH5BONEUB6OTEV7PIE8TURKEYEERN9CIDERYA10NAPKIN

Across 1 RECIPE · 3 LEFTOVERS · 4 WISHBONE · 7 PIE · 8 TURKEY · 9 CIDER · 10 NAPKIN

Down 1 ROLLS · 2 CRANBERRY · 5 BUTTER · 6 OVEN · 7 PECAN

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The Meal 20

  • Apron You tie it on to keep your clothes clean while you cook
  • Butter Yellow spread for warm bread
  • Casserole Baked dish such as green bean ___
  • Cider Apple drink pressed in the fall
  • Cranberry Sour red bog berry served as a jellied side dish
  • Drumstick The lower leg of a cooked bird
  • Feast A very large, special meal
  • Gravy Sauce made from the drippings of the roast
  • Leftovers Food still on hand the day after the big meal
  • Napkin Cloth or paper square you wipe your mouth with
  • Oven Kitchen box where the roast cooks for hours
  • Pecan Nut in a sweet, sticky Southern dessert
  • Pie Baked dessert in a crust; apple and pumpkin are favorites
  • Platter Large flat dish the roast is served on
  • Recipe Written steps for cooking a dish
  • Rolls Small round breads passed around in a basket
  • Stuffing Bread mixture baked inside the bird or in a dish beside it
  • Turkey Big bird roasted for the holiday meal
  • Wishbone Forked bone two people pull apart to make a wish
  • Yams Sweet potatoes, as many US recipes call them

1621 and the History 20

  • Anchor Heavy hook a ship drops to stay in one place
  • Cape Cod Hook-shaped arm of land where the 1620 ship first stopped
  • Colony Settlement ruled from a distant homeland
  • Corn Tall crop whose ears grow wrapped in green husks
  • Crew Sailors who work a ship together
  • Eels Snakelike fish that were part of the local diet in 1621
  • Fishing Catching food with a hook, a line or a net
  • Harvest Gathering in the crops at summer's end
  • Mayflower Ship that brought 102 passengers to Massachusetts in 1620
  • November Month when the United States keeps the holiday
  • Pilgrims English families who sailed in 1620 to make a new home
  • Plymouth Massachusetts settlement founded in 1620
  • Proclamation Official announcement a president makes each year to name the day
  • Rudder Flat blade at the back of a ship that steers it
  • Sail Big sheet of cloth that catches the wind to move a ship
  • Thursday Day of the week of the holiday, fixed as the fourth one of the month in 1941
  • Treaty Written peace agreement between two nations
  • Venison Deer meat, on the menu at the 1621 celebration
  • Voyage Long trip by sea
  • Winter Harsh season of 1620 to 1621 that half the colonists did not survive

Giving Thanks and Autumn 20

  • Acorn Nut that grows on an oak tree
  • Autumn Season also called fall
  • Cornucopia Horn of plenty, spilling over with fruit and vegetables
  • Donate To give food or money to people in need
  • Family Parents, children, aunts and cousins, all together
  • Football Sport many families watch on the holiday afternoon
  • Gather Come together in one place
  • Gourd Hard, bumpy fruit dried and used for decoration
  • Grace Short prayer of thanks said before eating
  • Grateful Word that means the same as appreciative
  • Guest Someone invited to your home for dinner
  • Host Person whose home the party is held in
  • Leaves They turn red and gold and drop from the trees
  • Parade Marching bands and giant balloons move down the street in it
  • Share To give part of what you have to others
  • Squash Hard-skinned vegetable such as butternut
  • Thankful Feeling glad for what you have
  • Tradition A custom passed down from parents to children
  • Volunteer Person who helps without being paid, as at a food bank
  • Welcome Glad greeting for someone who arrives at your door

How this list was compiled: 60 clues written for this site in three sets: the meal, the 1621 harvest and the history of the holiday, and giving thanks. History clues keep to what English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) states, checked in September 2026: no legend is given as fact, and no answer is the name of a person or a people. No clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This Thanksgiving crossword puzzle has three sets: the meal, 1621 and the history of the holiday, and giving thanks. It is a vocabulary crossword, and the history clues keep to checked facts, such as the 102 passengers of the Mayflower.

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What the history set holds

1621 and the History runs from the Mayflower, Cape Cod and Plymouth to the corn, venison and eels of 1621, the yearly proclamation and the fourth Thursday fixed in 1941. No legend is given as fact.

Thanksgiving day crossword printables

Print gives Letter or A4 with the answer key last. New puzzle draws another grid from the same set, so each child at the table can get a different one.

  • For grades 1 to 3, choose The Meal, take clues away with their crosses until 8 are left and tick Word bank under the clues in More options.

Questions and answers

Is there a Thanksgiving crossword with answers?

Yes. Every print ends with the answer key on a sheet of its own, and Show all clues and answers, under the puzzle, lists all 60 clues with their answers.

Where can I get a free printable Thanksgiving crossword for the family table?

Here, with no sign-up. Press Print for one sheet, or New puzzle and Print again for a different grid at each place. Large print in More options holds a puzzle to 8 words for young or older eyes.

Which grades is the Thanksgiving day crossword puzzle for?

The Meal and Giving Thanks and Autumn suit grades 2 to 5. 1621 and the History suits grades 3 to 8 and adults. These bands are our judgement, not a published standard.

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