Crossword Puzzles for Seniors
Print today’s puzzles
- Print all of today’s puzzles Everything printable today — word search, crossword, an anagram ladder, two logic puzzles, a poem and a reading — each puzzle followed by its own answers.
- Today’s word search Three big pages — the grid, the quote to fill in, and the answers.
- Today’s crossword Three big pages — the grid on its own with room to write, the clues in one wide column, and the answers.
- Today’s anagram puzzle Two big pages — the letters in boxes with room to write the words in, and the answers.
- Today’s logic puzzle The morning mystery — the clues, a grid big enough to pencil into, and the solution after it. Give it a few seconds to build.
This page is in large print, and so is every puzzle you open from it. The button turns it off — nothing else changes.
Play here, nothing to download
About these puzzles
These change every morning. Five fresh printables a day — today’s whole pack, today’s word search, today’s crossword, today’s anagram puzzle and today’s logic puzzle. Every one of them comes with its answers.
Each button opens the sheets already typeset large, with a Print button on the page. If you would rather keep the file than print it now, press Print and choose Save as PDF where the print box asks where to send it.
If you would rather solve on paper with a pen, print the crossword at full size with its answer key on the sheet.
Or solve it here. Tap a square, read the clue in full size, and type — correct letters lock in as you go.
A crossword should be a pleasant twenty minutes, not a squint. Ours is a five-by-five mini, which is short on purpose: long enough to be satisfying, short enough to finish over a cup of tea and not feel defeated by.
The part most large-print crosswords get wrong is the clue list. They enlarge the grid — the thing you look at — and leave the clues, the thing you actually read, in two cramped columns of small type. Here the clues come up in size with the grid and drop to one wide column.
What this is, in plain words
- No ads. No banners around the grid, nothing covering a clue, and no video you have to find and silence before you can think.
- No download needed to play. The crossword opens in the browser. There is no app to install first and no store account to remember.
- Large print. Bigger squares, bigger letters as you type them, and — the part that matters — bigger clues, at looser line spacing, in a single column.
- With answers. The printable version comes with its answer key, so you can settle an argument at the table without hunting for a solutions page.
- To play alone. No opponent and nothing to join. The clock counts up rather than down: it records how long you took, it never runs out, and it never stops the puzzle.
- No sign up. You can solve one right now without giving an email address. An account only exists to keep a streak, and the puzzle is identical without one.
Other ways to play
The large print crossword page has the day's puzzle on its own, and printable crosswords covers the paper side in more detail. Prefer hunting words to filling squares? Try word searches for seniors.
- Large Print Puzzles — Big type, printable sheets with answers, and puzzles you can play right here.
- Word Searches for Seniors — Big letters, a roomy grid, and a new word search every morning.
- Printable Crossword Puzzles for Seniors — Print it, solve it at the table, check it against the answer key.
- Games for Seniors with Dementia — Large, quiet, unhurried things to do together — free, and nothing to install.
Common questions
Are the clues difficult?
They lean literary rather than tricky — a famous quotation to finish, a writer or a painter, a plain definition. There is very little of the specialist crossword vocabulary that makes some grids feel like a private language, and no deliberate trick answers.
How long does one take?
Most people finish the five-by-five in two to five minutes. It is sized to be a small pleasure rather than an afternoon, and there is a new one every morning.
Can I do yesterday's?
Yes. Past days stay playable in the archive, in the same large type, and you can print any of them. Nothing expires and nothing is locked.
What if my hands are unsteady?
The squares are large and the tap area around each one is larger than the square looks, so a near-miss still lands. Typing works with an on-screen or a physical keyboard, and nothing is timed in a way that punishes a slow correction.