My Crossword Maker Logo
Powered by BrightSprout
Save Status:
or to save your progress. The page will not refresh.
Controls:
SPACEBAR SWITCHES TYPING DIRECTION
Answer Key:
Edit a Copy:
Make Your Own:
Crossword Word Search Worksheet
Rate This Puzzle:
Log in or sign up to rate this puzzle.

A Rose by Any Other Name

Plants grow throughout all of literature. What answers can you cultivate?
Across
“I am… a ________; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.” – The Broken Heart by dramatist John Ford
What Scarlett O'Hara was nearly Named
In _______ for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, a mentally challenged man undergoes an operation that turns him into a genius.
Type of tree that Billy nicknames "The Big Tree" in Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
The seeds of this fruit is what condemns Persephone to her time in Hades.
Anne of Green Gables wonders if the souls of good ones might be amethysts.
While Peter Rabbit was stealing vegetables from Mr. McGregor’s garden, his sisters were picking these down the lane in the tale by Beatrix Potter.
Barbara Kingsolver’s book, The ___________ Bible, is about a missionary family serving in the Congo
What Jack climbed.
A tree found in the Lewis Carroll poem, "The Jabberwocky."
Mentioned in the Harry Potter series, this plant has a mythology all its own, related to the fact that its screams are fatal to any who hear them.
The World Tree of Norse mythology.
Forgetting the proper password of “Open Sesame,” Cassim says “Open ______” when trying to escape from the thieves’ cave in “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.”
This flower causes Dorothy to fall asleep, and would have led to her death if the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman had not carried her out of the field.
James travels in this giant piece of fruit, escaping from his wicked aunts.
“Life is like an _____. / You peel it off one layer at a time; / And sometimes you weep.” – Carl Sandburg
In the Disney movie, Pinocchio was made from oak, but in the book, he was carved from this type of wood.
In Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, the van Luydens grow what type of flower at thieir Skuytercliff estate.
Down
According to Otto the farmhand, roadside plants grown from seeds scattered by Mormons traveling in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia.
In _______ and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood, Phryne Fisher investigates a death related to the Kabbalah and alchemy.
What the young man buys in the Stephen King short story, “The Man Who Loved Flowers.”
In Greek mythology, the man cursed to be so enamored with his own reflection that he died and then was transformed into a flower.
In A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie, this plant is at the root of character Molly Kendall’s strange blackouts.
The one thing that could kill Baldur the Beautiful in Norse mythology, as Frigg failed to get this plant’s promise not to harm him.
You either rest on them, or you may have won them in the ancient Olympics.
Jay pines after her in The Great Gatsby.
The type of tree that the Lorax seeks to protect in the Dr. Seuss book.
She is one of Titania’s fairies in a Midsummer’s Night Dream.
What the titular character of Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina" is born within.
She is the native princess in Peter Pan, named for a bright orange flower (two words).
Her parents agreed to give her to a woman who grows the most amazing rampion in her garden.
In Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Briony’s name is a version of the name of a type of this vegetable.
The race of tree people from J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
In Hamlet, what Ophelia told Gertrude symbolized remembrance.
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Squealer claims that milk and _____ are good for pigs, even though many of the pigs dislike them.
In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, two characters plant this type of seeds with the superstitious belief that if the flowers bloom, Pecola's baby will survive.
Flower referenced by Walt Whitman in the line, “With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love.”
In 2013, Joyce Carol Oates won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection for Black _____ and White Rose: Stories.
In mythology, a type of tree spirit that could leave their trees and take a human-like form.
The location of Agatha Christie’s A Pocketful of Rye is at ___tree Lodge.