Easy Crossword Puzzles for Beginners

Many easy crossword puzzles use the freeform or criss-cross style grid, but these puzzles feature standard American-style grids just like the newspaper crosswords do. A good vocabulary exercise for beginners and ESL students, you can play them online or print and solve on paper.

If you like to do crossword puzzles that don't have you pulling your hair out, then here's a selection of puzzle books that are compiled with the novice or casual solver in mind.

These online crossword puzzles use common, everyday words to help second language learners develop their English vocabulary.

If completing a crossword puzzle brings you a sense of satisfaction then take the fast track to puzzledom's Pleasuredome with these easy-to-solve puzzles.

Renewable energy site brings you themed freeform crosswords. Word search puzzles also available.

Easy Monday New York Times crossword puzzles to play online or to print and solve at your leisure.

Tuesday New York Times crosswords are one of the easiest published by the New York Times. Play them online or print and solve.

Wednesday New York Times crossword puzzles are still fairly easy, but more difficult than Monday and Tuesday crosswords. These free crosswords may be played online with a Java-compatible browser or with AcrossLite, or printed and solved on paper.

Hundreds of online crossword puzzles of varying difficulties. Themes include animals, celebrities, geography, history, music, sports, television and more.

Dozens of easy crossword puzzles to solve online. Java.

A wide selection of crossword puzzles for all levels of ability. A good resource for teachers using crosswords as an educational tool.

Easy, themed puzzles based on events that happened on this day in history: crossword puzzles, criss-cross puzzles, word search puzzles, jumble words and jigsaw puzzles.