Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- SQUEEGEE
- The word 'squeegee' traces back to at least the 1840s, probably from an older term for a wooden pressing tool used on ships. Window washers on tall buildings still rely on the same basic design today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- VINEGAR
- White vinegar cuts through grease and mineral deposits without leaving a residue, which is why it became a standard glass cleaner long before commercial sprays arrived in the 1950s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COBWEB
- A cobweb is technically an abandoned spider's web, dusty and tangled, as opposed to the fresh, sticky kind still in use. The corner of a ceiling is almost always where they settle first.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LINEN
- Washing and line-drying bed linen on the first warm spring day is one of those small rituals that feels entirely out of proportion to how good it actually makes a bedroom smell.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Spring cleaning word search, free and large-print. Tackle the BROOM, the DUSTER, and those long-forgotten COBWEB corners in this satisfying sweep.
About Spring Cleaning
Something about throwing open a window in March, letting the cold, clean air push out everything that's been sitting since November. The old idea was practical: before vacuum cleaners, a whole household's worth of coal soot had built up over winter, and the first mild week was the one chance to beat the rugs and wash the curtains before summer dust arrived. That urgency is mostly gone now, but the feeling of pulling out a stuck drawer, clearing the clutter, and watching a window go from grimy to gleaming never really gets old.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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