English
word games - advanced
level
EFL /
ESL -
level B2 - C1
Advanced
level EFL/ESL: word games and crosswords
Interactive
American
CROSSWORD
Themed
vocabulary
puzzle
Expand your vocabulary - a thematic crossword for students of English
as a foreign language, or
English as a second language. All the answers have something
to do with the USA.
Interactive
crossword - can be filled in on screen. Put in just one
letter per
square.
The
crossword grid below will stick to the top of your screen, so that you
can see the grid and the clues at the same time
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CLUES ACROSS
5. Also known as a Native American.
6. The sport of the Wild West.
8. Major American party supporting Donald Trump.
10. The time zone for New York (initials).
11. The two houses of the American parliament.
13. The Big Apple..
14. Scandal that unseated President Nixon.
18. Capital of the American automobile industry.
19. A hundred of them in a "buck".
21. The US flag has stars and ......
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CLUES
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1. Big international organisation with its HQ in NY.
2. Possibly America's favourite food.
3. In Britain, they'd be called lorries.
4. Music most popular with rural white Americans.
7. A classic type of American restaurant.
8. A little one is the capital of Arkansas.
9. Headquarters of the US Department of Defense
12. Texas has just one of them on its flag.
15. Adjective describing Superior, Huron or Erie.
16. Slang
term for a dollar
17. Major American weekly newsmagazine.
20. All across America - from coast ..... coast
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,
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