- The Crossword Puzzle is 1 of 8 word puzzles and activities.
- Get a printout of the Crossword. The Crossword answers are also printable.
- Use the word definitions to fill-in the best word choice on the puzzle. All words contain a word roots. Scan and email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
- Common Core alignment to a Crossword puzzle is to three key phrases: "Precise Meaning", "Spell Correctly" and "Grade Level". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c Spell Correctly: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: L.2.2d+e, L.3.2e+f, L.4.2d, L.5.2d, L.6.2b, L.7.2b, L.8.2c, L.9-10.2c, L.11-12.2b Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4
ACROSS:
# 3 – characterized by movement or caused by motion
# 5 – keen insight; shrewdness
# 7 – a person who is attracted to foreign people, cultures, or customs
# 8 – cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish; ruddy
# 12 – with one’s identity hidden, disguised or unknown
# 15 – empty; showing a lack of ideas or intelligence; purposeless
# 16 – characterized by deference; fawning; sycophantic
# 17 – belief that all existence is senseless
# 18 – composed of the same kind or nature; not heterogeneous
DOWN:
# 1 – the use of sly language, reasoning etc. to trick or deceive
# 2 – an example serving as a model; pattern
# 4 – Injurious to health; harmful; injurious
# 6 – not meant to be taken seriously or literally
# 9 – a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight
# 10 – characteristic of an ointment; excessively suave or smug
# 11 – characterized by excessive talk; garrulous; wordy
# 13 – of the nature of a situation of great peril; extremely steep
# 14 – mournful or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated manner
