Easy Sports Crossword #1

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Easy Sports Crossword #1

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1 DownWorld's most popular sport, called football abroad

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About This Free Printable Crossword

Warm up young fans with this easy sports crossword, a 9x9 grid of nine answers drawn from the sports kids play at recess and watch on weekends. Baseball, hockey, and the world's most popular game all make appearances, along with the gear that goes with them. The clues are one simple sentence each, written so early readers can sound out both the question and the answer.

Gym teachers use it as a rainy-day station, coaches hand it out on long bus rides to tournaments, and parents keep it for the seventh inning stretch that never ends. Print on letter or A4 paper; the answer key comes on its own page so nobody peeks by accident. It is a solid choice for a sports-themed birthday party activity table, too. When your all-star finishes, the medium sports crosswords in our collection bring longer answers and tougher crossings, and the rest of our free printable crossword puzzles cover every other interest in the house.

How to Print This Crossword Puzzle

  1. Choose Letter or A4 paper to match your printer, and a clue size that fits your solvers.
  2. Press Print Puzzle for the blank grid and clues, or Print Answer Key for the solved page. To download a PDF, choose “Save as PDF” as the destination.
  3. Print as many copies as you need — free for classrooms, families, libraries, and road trips. The answer key always prints separately.

Answer Key

The answers live on their own page: press Print Answer Key above, or use View answer key to check the solved grid on screen without printing. Stuck on a single word? The answer key lists every across and down answer next to its clue.

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