Muscles in motion
Themed · Original draft · Review pending · Criss-cross style
Muscles in motion
Eight clues identifying selected human skeletal muscles.
Broad muscle covering the back of the neck and upper shoulders (9)
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About this muscular system crossword
Four Across answers meet four Down answers identifying selected human skeletal muscles in a 10×11 criss-cross. Clues use body location, muscle action and head counts; two upper-arm names use familiar shortened wording. Some letters have only one clue direction. Use the definitions and crossing letters to check the longer names. The printable key matches this standalone practice grid.
Subject vocabulary · Topic knowledge can help with some clues.
10 × 11 grid · 8 clues · Criss-cross style
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Muscles in motion
Themed · 10 × 11 · ClueFill · Unreviewed original draft
Across
1. Broad muscle covering the back of the neck and upper shoulders (9)
2. Two-headed upper-arm muscle, in everyday wording (6)
6. Temple-region muscle that helps pull the lower jaw backward (10)
7. Shoulder muscle that helps lift the arm out to the side (7)
Down
1. Three-headed upper-arm muscle, in everyday wording (7)
3. Long straplike thigh muscle running from outer hip to inner knee (9)
4. Calf muscle lying underneath the gastrocnemius (6)
5. Cheek muscle that raises the lower jaw during chewing (8)