Dinosaurs crossword
Stomp back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. This crossword hides fearsome giants and gentle plant eaters alike, waiting to be named from their clues. Perfect for any young palaeontologist in the making.
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Clues in this dinosaurs crossword
The 14 clues below fill the grid above. Each answer length is shown to help younger solvers; the full answer key prints on the second page.
- Fast hunting dinosaur with a curved claw (6 letters)
- Ancient bone or print preserved in rock (6 letters)
- Plant eater with plates along its back (11 letters)
- Dinosaur with three horns and a frill (11 letters)
- Flying reptile of the dinosaur age (11 letters)
- Long-necked giant that ate leaves (10 letters)
- Sharp curved nail on a dinosaur toe (4 letters)
- A baby dinosaur hatched from one (3 letters)
- A dinosaur that ate only plants (9 letters)
- Word for animals that died out long ago (7 letters)
- What a dinosaur skeleton is made of (5 letters)
- Long back end a dinosaur swung for balance (4 letters)
- The loud sound a big dinosaur might make (4 letters)
- One small plate of a reptile skin (5 letters)
Dinosaurs by letter count
Stuck on a crossword clue? Here are dinosaurs grouped by how many letters they have, so you can match the answer to the squares.
| Letters | Dinosaurs |
|---|---|
| 4 letters | Claw, Tail, Roar, Bone |
| 5 letters | Scale, Crest |
| 6 letters | Raptor, Fossil |
| 7 letters | Extinct, Reptile |
| 9 letters | Iguanodon, Herbivore, Carnivore |
| 10 letters | Allosaurus, Diplodocus |
| 11 letters | Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Pterodactyl, Spinosaurus |
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- What is an 11-letter dinosaur?
- Stegosaurus, triceratops, pterodactyl and spinosaurus each have eleven letters.
- What is a 10-letter dinosaur?
- Allosaurus and diplodocus are ten-letter dinosaurs.
- What is a 9-letter dinosaur?
- Iguanodon is a nine-letter dinosaur; herbivore and carnivore also have nine letters.
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- Yes. Generate the dinosaurs puzzle above, with its 14 clues and a full answer key, and print it at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Can I change the dinosaurs clues?
- Yes. The generator is pre-filled with a themed clue list, but you can edit any clue, add your own, or change the title and generate a fresh grid. It runs entirely in your browser.
- Can I make a dinosaurs crossword book to sell on KDP?
- Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. Publisher Studio drafts a clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF, so you can publish a themed book.