Free crossword generator, with an answer key
Type your answers and clues, press generate, and print a puzzle plus its answer key. No sign-up, no watermark. The same engine behind our Publisher Studio.
Harder grades use longer answers and give fewer crossing letters.
Smaller grids print larger.
1 answer did not fit this grid and were left out: WOLF. Try a larger grid or an easier grade.
Customise colours
Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the grid.
Two pages: the puzzle with its numbered clues, and a full answer key with the grid filled in. The answers interlock across and down, sized for clean large-print printing.
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This makes one puzzle. Sign up to build a full crossword book for Amazon KDP: describe a theme and the studio drafts an answer bank into hundreds of puzzles, as print-ready PDFs. We carry your title into the studio.
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The puzzle and its answer key, as they print.
How to make a crossword
- 1Type a title and your clues. Give the puzzle a title, then add one clue per line as ANSWER: clue. Each answer must be 3 to 13 letters.
- 2Generate the grid. Press Generate. Your answers interlock across and down in a large-print grid, numbered automatically, with the same engine our Publisher Studio uses.
- 3Print the two pages. Press Print. You get two pages: the puzzle with its clues on page one and a filled answer key on page two, sized for clean printing or a PDF.
Short of ideas? Browse our free printable crossword puzzles with answers for ready-made grids you can print today.
Publishing a whole book?
This tool makes one puzzle for home or the classroom. To make a crossword book you can sell on Amazon KDP, 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. Generate once, export unlimited sizes.
See the KDP crossword makerQuestions
- Is this crossword generator free?
- Yes. Type your answers and clues, generate a puzzle and print the puzzle plus its answer key, with no sign-up and no watermark. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Does it include an answer key?
- Yes. Every puzzle prints as two pages: the puzzle with numbered clues on page one and a full answer key, with the grid filled in, on page two.
- Can I sell crossword books I make with a generator?
- The free tool makes one puzzle at a time for personal and classroom use. To make a book you can sell on Amazon KDP, our Publisher Studio drafts a whole clue bank with AI and generates hundreds of graded puzzles, at any KDP trim size, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior PDF and a matching answer-key PDF.
- What size are the pages?
- The free tool prints at 8.25 by 11 inches, a large-print page, with clue type set large for easy reading. In Publisher Studio you can export the same book at any KDP trim, from 5.06 by 7.81 up to 8.27 by 11.69, without regenerating.