Kids Across/Parents Down
The Original Crossword Puzzle for Kids and Their Favorite Adults™
The across clues are for kids and the down clues are for grown-ups!
Kids Across
1. Giddyup!: When these animals want to get somewhere fast, they gallop
4. If you're planning to be on the run, it's a good idea to put these in your sneakers 6. If you've ever "spotted" this jungle cat when he's on the run, you know he's the fastest animal in the world 8. One time around a track by a runner (or what a baby sits on when a grownup in a chair is holding her)
9. Two roller skates that need each other
11. A triathlon is a _____ to see who can run, cycle and swim the fastest
12. You can't see me, but I can send a kite soaring or make a sprinter's braids fly backward. What am I?
14. It's a bird, it's a plane...: This hero of movies and comic books is "faster than a speeding bullet"
16. Step on it!: An accelerator is a car's ___ pedal 18. Did you know?: When you see a chimp ______, he probably isn't happy -- that look on his face is often a sign that he is afraid
20. To throw the football down the field (or what a marathon runner must to the others if he wants to take the lead) 23. It's the button on the remote a person presses if she just can't wait to see the end of a movie: fast _____ 24. What a police officer turns on in an emergency to warn drivers that he's speeding their way
Parents Down
1. Slapshot sport
2. A herd in a hurry, all headed the same way 3. Roadrunner's constant challenge: "Catch ___ if you can!"
4. Typical motivator of the fight or flight response 5. European mode of transportation that can reach speeds of over 150 mph 7. Getting there: It may not be a bullet 5D, but it always beats the local
10. State whose NASCAR action and famed Speedway have made it the "racing capital of the world" (abbr.) 12. Mercury's magical footwear feature that allowed him to literally take off running 13. It's the only direction that a skier can speed
15. Rough waters only a rafter could love 17. Fablemaster who spun the tale of a crafty tortoise who trumped a hare
19. In a game of laser tag, it travels at the speed of light 21. Meteor that appears in a sudden streak (or basketball player on a roll): shooting ___ 22. Old adage that explains why weekends seem so fleeting: "Time flies when you're having ____"