Let’s solve this crossword puzzle step by step using the clues and the word bank.
We’ll go clue by clue, matching each to a word from the Word Bank:
Word Bank:
- Matilda
- holiday
- lettuce
- simile
- carnivore
- thermometer
- centre
- oxygen
- busy
- year
- colours
- winter
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Across Clues:
1. A synonym for middle.
→ “Centre” is a synonym for middle (especially in British spelling).
✔ Answer: centre
4. A cold season
→ That’s “winter”.
✔ Answer: winter
7. A gas that you breathe in.
→ We breathe in “oxygen”.
✔ Answer: oxygen
9. Take your temperature with this
→ You use a “thermometer”.
✔ Answer: thermometer
10. A book by Roald Dahl
→ From the word bank, “Matilda” is a famous book by Roald Dahl.
✔ Answer: Matilda
11. The opposite of doing nothing.
→ Opposite of doing nothing = being “busy”.
✔ Answer: busy
12. An animal that eats meat only
→ That’s a “carnivore”.
✔ Answer: carnivore
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Down Clues:
2. A green ingredient of a salad.
→ “Lettuce” is green and used in salads.
✔ Answer: lettuce
3. A comparison in poetry using the words as or like
→ That’s a “simile”.
✔ Answer: simile
5. Twelve months
→ That’s a “year”.
✔ Answer: year
6. green, yellow, red
→ These are “colours”.
✔ Answer: colours
8. When you don’t have to go to school.
→ That’s a “holiday”.
✔ Answer: holiday
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Now let’s double-check if all answers fit the grid lengths (we can’t see the exact grid squares, but we can assume the word bank matches the clue lengths):
All words from the bank are used exactly once — perfect!
Final Answer:
Across:
1. centre
4. winter
7. oxygen
9. thermometer
10. Matilda
11. busy
12. carnivore
Down:
2. lettuce
3. simile
5. year
6. colours
8. holiday
Parent Tip: Review the logic above to help your child master the concept of printable crossword puzzles for 6th graders.
