Easter criss-cross

Fourteen Easter words interlocked, DYE and HEN under MARSHMALLOW, DUCKLING and CHOCOLATE. MEADOW is «an open field covered with grass and wildflowers» — half the clues are spring rather than sweets, so the grid keeps its shape as a nature puzzle too.

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What is on this sheet

Grid: 12 × 15
Clues: 14
Across: 7
Down: 7

Across

1. A baby duck with soft down, often seen near a pond
4. The colorful, blooming part of a plant
5. A trumpet-shaped yellow flower that blooms in spring
7. A soft, fluffy white candy often shaped like a chick
9. An adult female chicken that lays eggs
12. A woven container used to collect and hide eggs
13. A liquid coloring used to decorate eggs

Down

2. A sweet brown treat molded into rabbit and egg shapes
3. Thin green strips used to line a holiday basket
6. A long-eared mammal that lives in an underground burrow
8. The season when flowers bloom and animals are born
10. A woven home built by birds to hold their eggs
11. An open field covered with grass and wildflowers
12. The furry character said to deliver treats on this holiday

About this puzzle

The grid has no black squares: it is whatever shape fourteen interlocking words make, and each word crosses at least one other. The clues are the same ones used everywhere else on this site for those words, written plainly for a classroom. Print it and the answer key comes on the second page; open it in the maker to swap in your own words and clues.