Crosswords Puzzles

Crossword Puzzles are a fun, quick, formative assessment tool, to help monitor progress of what the student has learnt and can recall from the topic content and glossary terms and definitions. (Bloom: Knowledge, Recall).

Opportunity for individual, group work, and collaborative learning. Puzzle variety for a diverse range of students and knowledge depth.

  • Ideal for “Do Nows”, early finishers, use across multiple years.
  • Perfect for diverse ability classrooms, substitute teachers, time fillers.
  • Teaching strategies: Differentiated Teaching, Collaborative Learning, Workbooks etc

Crossword Puzzle features:

  • Nix Prep Printables >> Print and go!
  • Printer friendly – B&W or Color – Low ink use.
  • 25+ researched keyword terms and clues for each topic.
  • Multi versions of puzzles: class variety, individual work, reduce cheating.
  • Varying levels of challenges, difficulty, test depth of knowledge.
  • Solutions provided for all puzzles.
  • More Crossword Puzzles from RBS.
  • RSS Feed / Blog of our latest Crossword Puzzles

Crossword Puzzle types*:

  • Standard Crossword Puzzles – No help ^
  • Standard Crossword Puzzles – First Letter help ^
  • Anagram Crossword Puzzles ^
  • Mystery Crossword Puzzles ^
    • ^ featuring versions with and without Wordlists.
  • Clueless Crosswords – Solve the Coded Message
  • Communicative Crossword Puzzles (1×1 or Group Work)

Crossword Puzzle Printables



  • * Please Note:
  • Current for resources mid 2023+
  • Older Crossword Packs may vary slightly in content.
  • Currently we plan to update older resources from early 2025 – purchase now and get the free updates later