19 crossword puzzles with answers

Across

1. 3 Bird that swims but cannot fly (7)
2. 5 Animal that swings through the trees (6)
3. 7 Big orange cat with black stripes (5)
4. 9 Australian animal that carries its baby in a pouch (8)
5. 10 Pet with long ears that hops (6)
6. 13 Striped black and white animal that looks like a horse (5)
7. 14 Bird that hoots at night (3)

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1. 1 Long animal with no legs (5)
2. 2 Green hopper that starts life as a tadpole (4)
3. 4 Big grey animal with a trunk (8)
4. 6 Tall animal with a very long neck (7)
5. 8 Ocean fish with rows of sharp teeth (5)
6. 11 Insect that makes honey (3)
7. 12 Desert animal with a hump (5)

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1. 3 Long yellow fruit you peel (6)
2. 5 Tiny white grains cooked in water (4)
3. 6 Hot food you eat from a bowl with a spoon (4)
4. 7 Round dish with tomato and cheese, cut into slices (5)
5. 8 Food made from milk, often yellow, sliced for a sandwich (6)
6. 10 Birthday treat you put candles on (4)
7. 11 White drink that comes from cows (4)
8. 12 Sweet, sticky food made by bees (5)

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1. 1 You toast a slice of it (5)
2. 2 Small green balls that grow in a pod (4)
3. 4 Red or green fruit that grows on a tree (5)
4. 7 Spaghetti is one kind (5)
5. 8 Orange vegetable that rabbits munch (6)
6. 9 Sour yellow fruit (5)
7. 13 A hen lays one (3)

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1. 1 Long soft seat for two or more people (4)
2. 3 You sleep in it at night (3)
3. 5 Room where meals are cooked (7)
4. 9 It dries you after a bath (5)
5. 11 Seat with a back and four legs (5)
6. 12 Glass you look out of (6)
7. 14 Top of the house that keeps the rain out (4)

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1. 2 It keeps food cold (6)
2. 4 Soft thing to rest your head on (6)
3. 6 It tells you the time (5)
4. 7 Steps that take you up to the next floor (6)
5. 8 Glass that shows your reflection (6)
6. 10 It gives light on a table or desk (4)
7. 13 You open it to go in or out (4)

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1. 2 The warmest season (6)
2. 3 Arch of colors when the sun shines through rain (7)
3. 5 Flash of light in a storm (9)
4. 8 A bright day with no clouds (5)
5. 9 White flakes that fall when it is very cold (4)
6. 10 White or grey shape floating in the sky (5)
7. 12 Frozen water (3)
8. 13 Water that falls from clouds (4)

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1. 1 It keeps you dry in the rain (8)
2. 2 Season when flowers start to bloom (6)
3. 4 Cloud close to the ground that makes it hard to see (3)
4. 6 Loud rumble in a storm (7)
5. 7 The coldest season (6)
6. 11 Moving air that blows a kite (4)

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1. 1 City of the Eiffel Tower (5)
2. 4 Largest of the oceans (7)
3. 7 Highest mountain above sea level (7)
4. 8 River that flows north through Egypt (4)
5. 10 Country that is also a continent (9)
6. 13 Capital of Spain (6)
7. 14 Island nation whose capital is Tokyo (5)

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1. 2 Mountain range that runs down western South America (5)
2. 3 European range that includes Mont Blanc (4)
3. 5 Country with the world's longest coastline (6)
4. 6 Nordic island of volcanoes and glaciers (7)
5. 7 Country of the pyramids of Giza (5)
6. 9 Largest country in South America (6)
7. 11 Largest hot desert in the world (6)
8. 12 South American river that carries more water than any other (6)

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1. 4 Glass block that splits white light into colors (5)
2. 6 Mountain that can erupt with lava (7)
3. 11 Particle with a negative charge (8)
4. 12 Path one body takes around another in space (5)
5. 13 Molecule that carries genetic instructions (3)
6. 15 Remains of ancient life preserved in rock (6)

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1. 1 Curved glass that bends light (4)
2. 2 Smallest unit of life (4)
3. 3 Element found in all known life; symbol C (6)
4. 5 It attracts iron and steel (6)
5. 7 Gas we need to breathe; symbol O (6)
6. 8 Smallest unit of an element (4)
7. 9 Scientist whose name is also a unit of force (6)
8. 10 Force that pulls things toward the ground (7)
9. 14 Substance with a pH below 7 (4)

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1. 5 Speed at which a piece is played (5)
2. 6 Instrument you hit with sticks (4)
3. 7 Composer who wrote nine symphonies and lost his hearing (9)
4. 10 Large instrument whose strings are plucked (4)
5. 12 Instrument usually strummed on six strings (6)
6. 13 Drama in which the story is sung (5)
7. 15 Austrian composer of The Magic Flute (6)

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1. 1 Three or more notes played together (5)
2. 2 Smallest of the orchestra's bowed string instruments (6)
3. 3 Woodwind instrument held sideways (5)
4. 4 Bowed string instrument played sitting, held between the knees (5)
5. 8 Brass instrument with three valves (7)
6. 9 Group of singers (5)
7. 11 Instrument with 88 keys (5)
8. 14 Style of music born in New Orleans (4)

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1. 1 Sport with a bow and arrows (7)
2. 4 Games held every four years (8)
3. 8 Sport of the World Series (8)
4. 9 Game with an oval ball and scrums (5)
5. 12 Game called football in most of the world (6)
6. 13 Jumping into a pool from a board, with style (6)
7. 14 Sport with a hole in one (4)
8. 15 Sliding down snowy slopes on two boards (6)

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1. 2 Bat-and-ball game with wickets (7)
2. 3 Game played with a puck on ice (6)
3. 5 Running race of 26.2 miles (8)
4. 6 Sport of the Tour de France (7)
5. 7 Riding waves on a board (7)
6. 10 Sport fought in a ring with gloves (6)
7. 11 Sport played at Wimbledon (6)

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1. 3 Empire that built Machu Picchu (4)
2. 4 President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation (7)
3. 5 Empire whose capital was Tenochtitlan (5)
4. 8 European revival of art and learning that began in Italy (11)
5. 11 NASA program that landed people on the Moon (6)
6. 12 Greek city-state famous for its soldiers (6)
7. 13 Liner that sank on its first voyage in 1912 (7)
8. 14 German who brought movable-type printing to Europe (9)

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1. 1 Ruler of ancient Egypt (7)
2. 2 Norse seafarers who raided and traded across Europe (7)
3. 6 Last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (9)
4. 7 French emperor defeated at Waterloo (8)
5. 9 Agreement that stopped the fighting of World War I in 1918 (9)
6. 10 Rome's great amphitheater (9)

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1. 3 Word made from initials, like NASA (7)
2. 5 Letters added to the end of a word (6)
3. 7 Word that describes a noun (9)
4. 9 Word that reads the same backward, like level (10)
5. 12 A, E, I, O or U (5)
6. 13 Word that sounds like another but means something else (9)

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1. 1 Letters added to the start of a word (6)
2. 2 Unit of sound; banana has three (8)
3. 4 Word that means the same as another (7)
4. 6 Figure of speech that says one thing is another (8)
5. 7 Word that means the opposite of another (7)
6. 8 Word that tells how, when or where, like quickly (6)
7. 10 Saying whose meaning is not in its words, like break a leg (5)
8. 11 Naming word (4)
9. 12 Doing word (4)

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1. 4 Hottest planet in the solar system (5)
2. 7 When one body blocks the light of another (7)
3. 8 First person to walk on the Moon (9)
4. 10 Rocky body orbiting the Sun, many between Mars and Jupiter (8)
5. 13 Explosion of a dying star (9)
6. 15 Space telescope launched in 1990 (6)

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1. 1 Cloud of gas and dust where stars form (6)
2. 2 Largest planet in the solar system (7)
3. 3 Shooting star (6)
4. 5 Instrument for seeing faraway objects (9)
5. 6 First artificial satellite, launched in 1957 (7)
6. 9 Planet best known for its rings (6)
7. 11 Icy body that grows a tail near the Sun (5)
8. 12 Vast system of stars, like the Milky Way (6)
9. 14 Dwarf planet beyond Neptune (5)

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1. 3 Author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (6)
2. 5 Shakespeare's prince of Denmark (6)
3. 6 Homer's epic of a long voyage home (7)
4. 10 Mary Shelley's scientist (12)
5. 12 Author of A Christmas Carol (7)
6. 13 Girl who fell down a rabbit hole (5)
7. 14 Author of The Hobbit (7)

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1. 1 Long work of fiction (5)
2. 2 Swiss girl who lives with her grandfather in the Alps (5)
3. 4 F. Scott Fitzgerald's great host (6)
4. 7 Bram Stoker's count (7)
5. 8 Detective of 221B Baker Street (8)
6. 9 Poem of fourteen lines (6)
7. 10 Short story with a moral, often about animals (5)
8. 11 Author of Pride and Prejudice (6)

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1. 4 Spooky spirit in a white sheet (5)
2. 6 Orange squash carved with a face (7)
3. 7 What you dress up in (7)
4. 9 She rides a broomstick (5)
5. 12 A jack-o'-___ glows on the porch (7)
6. 13 Month that ends with Halloween (7)
7. 15 All the bones of a body (8)

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1. 1 Creature with fangs who hates garlic (7)
2. 2 It glows full in the night sky (4)
3. 3 Figure wrapped in bandages (5)
4. 5 ___ or treat! (5)
5. 8 Eight-legged spinner of webs (6)
6. 10 Sweets you collect at the door (5)
7. 11 Big pot for a witch's brew (8)
8. 14 Flying animal that hangs upside down (3)

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1. 2 Day of the week it always falls on (8)
2. 6 Game many watch after dinner (8)
3. 7 Floats and balloons march in this (6)
4. 10 Bird roasted for the big dinner (6)
5. 12 Red berry made into a sauce (9)
6. 14 Settlers who held a harvest feast at Plymouth in 1621 (8)
7. 15 Sauce poured over the meat and potatoes (5)

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1. 1 The people around the table (6)
2. 3 Month of Thanksgiving in the United States (8)
3. 4 Ship that sailed from England to Plymouth in 1620 (9)
4. 5 What you give on the day (6)
5. 8 Bread mixture baked inside or beside the bird (8)
6. 9 Yellow kernels on a cob (4)
7. 11 Gathering in the crops (7)
8. 13 Pumpkin ___, a dessert baked in a crust (3)

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1. 3 He has a carrot nose (7)
2. 5 Wrapped gifts (8)
3. 7 Shiny strands on the tree (6)
4. 8 It glides over the snow (6)
5. 13 Santa comes down it (7)
6. 14 Spiced cookie made into houses and people (11)
7. 15 It sits on top of the tree (4)

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1. 1 Ring of greenery on the door (6)
2. 2 Song sung at Christmas (5)
3. 4 Plant you might be kissed under (9)
4. 6 Santa's little helper (3)
5. 9 Hung by the chimney to be filled (8)
6. 10 Decoration hung on a branch (8)
7. 11 Month of Christmas (8)
8. 12 Animals that pull the sleigh (8)

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1. 2 Six-sided ice crystal that falls from a cloud (9)
2. 4 What bears and hedgehogs do through the winter (9)
3. 8 Frosty figure built from three big snowballs (7)
4. 9 Gloves that keep your fingers together (7)
5. 12 Often the coldest month in North America (7)
6. 13 Hot chocolate drink (5)
7. 14 Ride it down a snowy hill (4)

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1. 1 Boots with blades for the ice (6)
2. 3 Where logs burn to warm a room (9)
3. 5 House made of blocks of snow (5)
4. 6 White crystals on the grass on a cold morning (5)
5. 7 Snowstorm with strong winds (8)
6. 10 Spike of ice hanging from a roof (6)
7. 11 Long strip of wool wrapped around your neck (5)

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1. 1 Tiny pieces of paper thrown to celebrate (8)
2. 7 A promise to yourself for the year ahead (10)
3. 8 Hang up a new one on January 1 (8)
4. 11 Hand-held firework that fizzes with sparks (8)
5. 13 The clock strikes twelve at ___ (8)

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1. 1 What people say as they raise their glasses (6)
2. 2 Bangs and sparkles that light up the night sky (9)
3. 3 Ten, nine, eight, seven... (9)
4. 4 The first month of the year (7)
5. 5 Horn or rattle sounded at twelve o'clock (10)
6. 6 Everyone watches its hands near twelve (5)
7. 9 Fill it with air and tie the end (7)
8. 10 Party ___, often a paper cone (3)
9. 12 Gathering with music, food and friends (5)

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1. 3 Someone you like to spend time with (6)
2. 8 Note you send in an envelope (6)
3. 9 Color of a ripe strawberry (3)
4. 11 Sweet treat in a heart-shaped box (9)
5. 13 Winged boy with a bow (5)

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1. 1 You write a message inside it (4)
2. 2 Shape on a Valentine's card (5)
3. 4 Red flowers often given on February 14 (5)
4. 5 Month of Valentine's Day (8)
5. 6 Being friendly, generous and caring (8)
6. 7 Cupid shoots one (5)
7. 10 "Roses are red, violets are blue" begins a famous one (4)
8. 11 Sugary treats like lollipops (5)
9. 12 Wrap your arms around someone (3)

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1. 4 Baby chicken that hatches from an egg (5)
2. 5 Day of the week Easter always falls on (6)
3. 6 Orange vegetable a rabbit nibbles (6)
4. 8 Carry the eggs you find in it (6)
5. 9 Small chewy candies shaped like beans (10)
6. 13 Long-eared animal that brings the eggs in the story (5)
7. 14 Search for hidden eggs (4)

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1. 1 Many Easter eggs are made of it (9)
2. 2 Cup-shaped spring flower (5)
3. 3 Yellow flower shaped like a trumpet (8)
4. 7 Tie it in a bow on the basket (6)
5. 10 Baby sheep (4)
6. 11 Hat decorated for a parade (6)
7. 12 Season of Easter (6)