Muscles Crossword Puzzle

About the Muscles Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers muscles throughout the human body, including major muscles used for movement and smaller muscles found in the face and torso. Look for names such as biceps, deltoid, masseter, and diaphragm, alongside terms like flexor and extensor. It is suited to students learning anatomy, health topics, or the names of muscles involved in everyday movement.

This crossword draws on 41 clues about Muscles. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Moves a limb away from the body's midline (8 letters)
• •Cheek muscle used when blowing (10 letters)
• •Threadlike contractile unit in tissue (5 letters)
• •Rear-thigh muscle group (9 letters)
• •Jaw-closing muscle used for chewing (8 letters)
• •Major one lies over the chest (10 letters)
• •Four-part group at the front of the thigh (10 letters)
• •Turns the palm upward (9 letters)

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