Summer Crossword Puzzle - Free

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Here's a free Summer crossword puzzle, a fun way to exercise your brain. Solve it online or print it out.

To solve it online, click the Solve Online button under the picture of the puzzle. This opens the crossword in a pop-up window.

This puzzle is part of the free online brain games collection. For a list of all my free crosswords, visit the Easy Printable Crossword Puzzles page.

Summer Crossword Puzzle Instructions

If you like this crossword puzzle, check out the other word games on this site, including Hangman Classic and the free online word searches collection.

HOW TO PLAY. Using your memory and logic skills, use the provided clues to figure out the words hidden in the puzzle. The hidden words are arranged in a criss-cross grid, where the word overlap each other at common letters.

For the online version of the Summer crossword, click any row or column to highlight it and display the clue. The clue is shown at the top of the puzzle.

If you have a guess for the answer for the clue, type it in the grid. As you work on the puzzle, you can go back and change any of the words you've typed in previously.

To print the crossword to solve it on paper, click the gear icon in the upper right of the puzzle window. Then click the "Printable Version" option to display the printable crossword.

To see the full solution for the Summer crossword online, choose the "Show the Puzzle Solution" option in the gear menu.

The puzzle solution is also provided with the printable version. The solution appears on page 2.

Best of luck solving the puzzle!

Fun Facts About Summer

A summer crossword puzzle can be solved in any season, of course. But if it happens not to be summer right now, here are a few interesting facts from Wikipedia about the hottest season to put you in the mood to solve this puzzle:

The summer solstice, or longest day of the year, occurs between June 20 and June 22 in the Northern Hemisphere. Each year thousands of people gather at Stonehenge in England to celebrate the summer solstice.

In the Southern Hemisphere, summer holidays include Christmas and New Year's Day.

Meteorologists divide the seasons, including summer by the exact month. From their point of view, summer occurs during the full months of June, July, and August.

Summer lasts from May 1 to August 1 on the Irish calendar.

Many public holidays around the world happen in summer. For example, Canada Day (July 1), Swiss National Day (August 1), Bastille Day (France - July 14), and Memorial Day (USA - Last Monday of May).

The expression "dog days of summer" goes back to the ancient Greeks. They blamed these hottest days, which fall between July 3 and August 11, on Sirius and named them after the Dog Star (Sirius) in the Canis Major constellation.

Summer is generally a low point for television viewing. The exception is childrens' shows, due to most children being on vacation from school during this season.