Football Frenzy

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Team sport played with a ball and goalposts (8)
  2. 6. A play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone (9)
  3. 7. Formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle (plural) (8)
  4. 9. A player who kicks the football (6)
  5. 11. The act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team (12)
  6. 14. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (plural) (8)
  7. 15. One who loves and defends his or her country (plural) (8)
  8. 16. A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. The act of retaining something (7)
  2. 2. A score in American football (9)
  3. 3. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (plural) (7)
  4. 5. The person who plays ___ (11)
  5. 8. A pause from doing something (7)
  6. 10. To attack suddenly and without warning (5)
  7. 12. Any final competition to determine a championship (plural) (8)
  8. 13. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang (plural) (7)