Sports crossword puzzle
Twelve clues from the world of sport: ball games, water, gloves, a very long race and the people and places around the game.
The grid and the clues
12 clues to solve: 6 across and 6 down.
Across
- 2. Official who enforces the rules during a match (7)
- 4. Sport where eleven players a side kick a ball into a net (6)
- 6. Sport where you score by shooting the ball through a hoop (10)
- 7. Water sport with strokes like freestyle and butterfly (8)
- 9. Sport of clubs, greens and eighteen holes (4)
- 10. Champions wear it around the neck: gold, silver or bronze (5)
Down
- 1. Racket sport played over a net; Wimbledon is its most famous event (6)
- 3. Long-distance running race of about 42 kilometers (8)
- 4. Large arena where matches are played in front of a crowd (7)
- 5. A group of players competing on the same side (4)
- 6. Combat sport with gloves, rounds and a ring (6)
- 8. What a striker scores when the ball crosses the line (4)
What does it cover?
Not just the sports themselves. Some answers are games you play, others are the race you train months for, the official you argue with, the thing you score and the arena you score it in. The longest answer is ten letters, and long answers are a gift in a crossword: once two or three crossings are in place there is usually only one word that fits.
Who is it for?
Anyone who watches or plays. The clues describe each sport by its rules and its icons, so you do not need to follow any particular league or season, and the puzzle will read the same in ten years. It sits in the middle of our difficulty range: harder than the animal crossword, friendlier than the science one.
Print it
Grab the free puzzle PDF above, print it in black and white, and keep the separate answer key PDF for the final whistle.
