Christmas Symbols Printable Crosswords

While doing some research on homeschooling, I came across a printable crosswords with the theme being 'Christmas Symbols' over on about.com.

There are ten words to find and should keep you busy for a few minutes at least. As usual, it's in PDF format and can easily be reproduced.

You can download this printable crosswords directly from this link.

BeeKeepers #21 - 'High Hopes' Printable Crosswords

The BeeKeeper has done it again! This time he brings us printable crosswords puzzle #21, 'High Hopes'.

Well, it’s Wednesday again, and like that rubber tree, we’re bouncing back with another free crossword puzzle. Our team of ace reviewers has rated this one as having a Tuesday/Wednesday difficulty level, so it should be accessible to most casual solvers as well as the seasoned veterans in the audience.

I can't wait to get started on this one during lunch today! Thanks, BeeKeeper, for another great printable crosswords!

Merv Griffin's Crosswords(TM) Online Game in 2008

The creators of hit shows such as Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, the William Morris Agency, has licensed Oberon Media to create an online version of the game in early 2008.

"Merv loved new technologies," said Ron Ward, Vice Chairman of MGE and The Griffin Group of Companies. "He had great appreciation for the financial potential in expanding Crosswords online and was eager to participate in creating the downloadable product."

"An extremely addictive game on television, Crosswords is an ideal vehicle for online play," said Josh Raphaelson of Program Partners. "Oberon was our partner of choice to bring the game to life online."

If your a fan of the hit television show, you will surely enjoy a computer version that you can play at your leisure!

You can read more in the press release.

Polar Express Printable Crosswords

Well, we still haven't finished off all the left-over turkey and ham yet, but I'm seeing Christmas lights in the neighbor's windows, I heard three different renditions of Jingle Bells while grocery shopping, and my daughter made a Christmas tree out of construction paper at school yesterday.

So to try and get myself (and maybe you) in to the holiday spirit, here is a Christmas printable crosswords for you to do titled Polar Express. It's an easy one that you can probably get done fairly quickly, or would be good to keep the kids occupied for a few minutes. It's in PDF format and can easily be printed. Enjoy!

The Polar Express Printable Crosswords Puzzle

Crosswords Addiction

I just ran across a great short-film on YouTube. It's called Crossword Addiction and was created by Mark Hill and was created as a submission to Showdown in Chinatown in April 2007. Can you relate? I know several people that can!

Christmas Word Search

Being the crossword-doing-word-search-finding-blogger that I am, I have started another blog specifically for Christmas word searches. I have a huge collection of free printable Christmas word searches that I'll be sharing with you all on a daily basis.

These will be an excellent resource for teachers to use over the next few weeks before the Christmas holidays begin. It will also be an excellent resource for parents who will be home with their children for up to two weeks, and need to keep them out of their hair!

However we won't be catering to just teachers, parents, and children. I'll also be posting some more difficult Christmas word search puzzles for the adults to do in their spare time as well.

Please visit Christmas Word Search today! You could also subscribe to the site's RSS feed to have new Christmas word searches delivered to you every day!

Merry Christmas!

Create Printable Crosswords On Your Website For Free

Fellow unix geek and word search enthusiast Phil Paradis has written a Perl program that will allow you to create printable crosswords!

This is great news if you run your own web site. Using Phil's script, you can easily automatically generate printable crosswords on your own web site, based upon input from the user. For example, the webmaster could build a form to allow it's users to input a combination of words and hints, and have your web site create and display the word search for the user to immediately use. Pretty cool!

This UNIX Perl console application generates crossword puzzles from a list of words and clues. It's intended to serve as a backend to programs which gather input data from users, then format the resulting puzzle into a human-readable format.

Hopefully we'll be able to implement this on this site, and start sharing and trading your original printable crosswords!

You an find Phil's scripts here.