Space criss-cross

Fourteen space words crossed into a single grid: SUN, MARS and STAR holding TELESCOPE, SATELLITE and ASTEROID. ECLIPSE is clued as «when one space object blocks the light of another», which is the kind of definition that teaches the word while you solve it.

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1M2PLANETT3S4UNENO5C6JUPITEROVM7TELESCOPERT8GS9SATELLITEL10AST11EROIDXCY12PLUTO13SITP14MARSRE

What is on this sheet

Grid
9 × 19
Clues
14
Across
8
Down
6

Across

  1. 2. A large body that circles a star, like Earth
  2. 3. The star at the center of our solar system
  3. 6. The largest planet in our solar system
  4. 7. A tool used to see faraway objects in the sky
  5. 9. A device that circles a planet to send signals home
  6. 10. A small rocky object that orbits the sun
  7. 12. A small, icy dwarf planet far from the sun
  8. 14. The red planet, fourth from the sun

Down

  1. 1. A streak of light from a space rock burning up
  2. 4. All of space and everything that exists within it
  3. 5. A ball of ice and dust that grows a glowing tail
  4. 8. A huge group of stars, planets, and dust in space
  5. 11. When one space object blocks the light of another
  6. 13. A giant, glowing ball of gas seen in the night sky

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.

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