Free puzzles
These puzzles are all free to download, and you can print them for private use, not-for-profit newsletters and the like, and educational uses. If you wish to use them in a magazine or other publication, please contact me for licencing options.
The Science Collection
- Junior
- Animals Fit-In
- Animal Crossword and Fit-In
- Body Parts Word Search
- Marine Word Search
- Maths Word Search
- Materials Secret Shape
- Senior
Easy puzzles
Medium puzzles
- 1980s Music Word Search — Find your favourite 1980s song titles in this word search.
- Aquarium Word Search — Lots of aquarium fish in this one, and a hidden message!
- Archaeology Puzzle Sheet — This puzzle sheet was written for National Archaeology Week in Australia, and includes a word search puzzle and a crossword.
- Arty Crossword — A little crossword all about art and artists.
- Astronomy Word Search — Discover the cosmos with this puzzle.
- Aussie Crossword — This is a small crossword with lots of Australian words.
- Canberra 1965 Map Maze — from The Canberra Puzzle Book.
- Delicious Word Search — A "tasty" word search.
- Dinosaur Word Search— A dinosaur puzzle with an Australian flavour and a hidden word.
- Ecosystems Secret Shape— Find all the words and discover a hidden shape!
- Elements Word Search — Find the chemical elements, and reveal a secret word!
- Federation Find-a-Word — from The Canberra Puzzle Book.
- Italian Crossword — Translate English into Italian, and vice versa, to solve this crossword.
- Knitting Word Search — Find all your knitting terms here!
- Physics Word Search — Discover a famous scientist in this word search.
- Quick Break — One of my popular ‘quick’ crosswords. Available through my syndicator, Auspac Media.
- Recipes Word Search — Lots of tasty recipe names in this one.
- Science Word Search — Fields of study feature in this word search.
- Valentine's Day Secret Shape — My own puzzle invention. It combines a regular word search with the fun of colouring in, to discover a hidden picture. Available for syndication through Auspac Media, and as an ebook on Lulu for instant download.
Hard puzzles
- African Scramble Word Search — You need to unscramble the names of African countries and cities before you can find them in the grid.
- Around the World Quiz Word Search — answer the quiz questions to find out which words to look for in the grid.
- Christmas Crossword — The name says it all! Clues are on the tricky side, but not too hard.
- Elements Crossword — The answers are either the names or symbols of chemical elements.
- The Enigma Crossword — This one is just generally very hard! Tricky vocabulary.
- Gardener Crossword — A difficult gardening and botany themed crossword, syndicated through Auspac Media.
- Gourmet Crossword — A challenging food, cooking, and wine themed crossword. Auspac Media
- Indonesian Cross Quizzes — Two cross quizzes about Indonesia.
- National Parks Crossword — A crossword about Australia's national parks
- Puppy Secret List Word Search — It's hard because you only get a list of initial letters of the dog breed names!