Pyramid Crossword Puzzle

by Julie Richer
President, Mountain Lake Software, Inc.

Read the article Understanding Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and then print out this puzzle and have fun solving it. After you've completed your answers, click here to see the answer page.

Across	Down
1. __ I Were a Rich Man	1. anger
3. Egyptian sun-god	2. overweight
4. evil brother of Osiris	4. snoops
6. opposite of "down"	5. opposite of "him"
7. made from elephant's tusk	8. where pharaohs' tombs are
9. thought	9. not busy
10. cut	11. papyri
13. Mohammed ___	12. farm tool
15. opposite of "go"	13. morning (abbreviation)
18. hawk-headed god	14. put inside
19. hollow-stemmed plant	16. ancient capital of Egypt
22. Egyptian symbols	17. Mr. ___ (talking horse)
24. not contaminated	20. dam site on Nile River
26. Elias ____, sewing machine	21. destroy
inventor	22. him
28. help	23. ___-ho-ho
29. California and Florida,	24. average in golf
for example	25. street (abbreviation)
30. plus	27. stop
32. vase	29. Abu _____
33. apart	31. leave
35. opposite of	32. new
"off"	33. creative work
36. embalmed people	34. ____ Sea
40. writing tool	35. he married Isis
41. earth's star	36. greater than
42. magic texts to protect dead	37. slang: modus operandi
on their way to afterlife	38. charged particles
46. wife of Osiris	39. flying ____ (alone)
48. Egyptian river	43. not many
49. train tracks (abbreviation)	44. child of Isis
50. belonging to me	45. before (poetic)
51. ____ Straits (band name,	46. hero
or bad situation)	47. window part
52. not fake	50. mother
54. Frosty, the ____ man	52. a pocket full of ___
55. _______ Stone	53. cinder
59. a time to celebrate	56. knight's title
61. do, re, mi, fa, sol, ___	57. King ___ (nickname)
62. sides of a room	58. went fast
63. sister of Isis	59. sound of laughter
64. hieroglyphs are	60. __ apple a day
sacred ____	61. __, How a Rose...

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