Free printable rebus puzzles
1 – For once in my life (four ones in my life)
2 – Forget it
3 – Try to understand
4 – Travel overseas or overseas travel
5 – Breakfast
6 – Downtown
7 – Eyeshadow
8 – Stepfather
9 – Once upon a time
10 – Potatoes (pot 8 O’s)
11 – 3D movie
12 – Top secret
1 – Trip around the world or around the world trip
2 – Lemonade
3 – Long legs
4 – advice
5 – Spaceman
6 – Big bad wolf
7 – Many thanks or thanks a lot
8 – Download
9 – No idea
10 – Comfortable
11 – Forty years
12 – Excuse me
1 – Forehead
2 – Good looking
3 – Waterfall
4 – Wake up
5 – Tuna fish
6 – Foreign language
7 – Seahorse
8 – Middle-aged
9 – Broken heart
10 – Seesaw
11 – Miss you or missing you
12 – Teabag
How to solve rebus puzzles
Being that we are dealing with puzzles, not traditional rebuses that are meant to be easily read, they can get quite tricky. That being said, here are a few pointers on how to go about solving them.
Prepositions are your friend, especially prepositions of place and movement. Think of words such as in, on, around, before, after, up, down, around. Let’s look at some examples of this. If you had a picture of a rainbow with the word somewhere written above it, it can be deciphered as somewhere over the rainbow. The word seat written backwards, TAES, could be solved as back seat. Similarly, a picture of an old man with the word beauty written to the right of it could be read as age before beauty.
Adjectives help a lot and are often shown using pictures. A fire could represent hot. A picture of a rock could stand for the word hard, and an empty wallet could be used to show the word poor. Other examples include the word “shot” written in big letters to mean big shot, or a picture of a horse above a mountain could be used to express the term high horse.
Compound nouns are also often used. If you were to put a picture of a light and house side by side, you would make the word lighthouse. Note that most rebuses are read from left to right, so the light would be on the left to make it read correctly. Another example would be putting an arm next to a chair to make armchair.
Homophones and homographs are extremely common as well. These are words that sound the same but have different meanings, or are spelt the same and have different meanings. The number 2 can be used to show to, two, or too. The letter C could mean sea or see, a picture of the sun could be used for the word son, and a picture of a bank could substitute for a river bank and so on. Words that sound similar are sometimes used, for instance, eyes could appear for ice and 4’s for force. i
Plurals appear in many puzzles for various reasons. If you see the words many many many many – it could mean many times. A sequence of 1s (11111) could be read as once as a phonetic wordplay. Many irregular nouns (and verbs) also change pronunciation when they become plural, which can be used as a fun trick in rebuses. Or, it could be as basic as a picture of multiple dogs to show dogs not dog to show the S in a word or phrase.
Colors can also be used. The word thumb, for example, written in green would mean green thumb. The letter E in red could stand for ready, and a splash of green paint next to the letters NV could be translated as green with envy. Currently, the puzzles on this page are only in black and white however, this makes them easier for most people to print and solve.
These are rather simple examples, be warned, things can get much more complicated, particularly when many of these ideas are combined and stitched together. At least by now you should have an understanding of some of the concepts that can make up rebuses. Now you have a good head start to go ahead and tackle this huge set of rebus puzzles, relax and enjoy a healthy mind workout!
Initially, English learners may find them quite hard, but once they get the hang of them, they find them much easier. In a classroom learning environment, it is best to introduce the concepts behind the rebus puzzles before handing them out. Give examples on the board like – CHmadeINA (made in China), IN_VADERS (space invaders), and (I love you) by drawing an eye, a heart, and the letter U.
You may also need to give clues for some of the harder ones, and you can also make it a group or class exercise and have students work together. Sometimes it works well to draw the 12 blank rectangles on the board, and if a student or team has an answer, they can run up and write it themselves.
1 – Four-wheel drive
2 – Apple pie
3 – Up to you
4 – Robin Hood
5 – Design
6 – Engineer
7 – Vegetables
8 – Afternoon tea
9 – Camping overnight
10 – Time to go
11 – Long time no see
12 – Polite
1 – Fishing hook
2 – Farm animal/Animal farm
3 – Touchdown
4 – Honeybee
5 – Cornerstone
6 – Love at first sight
7 – Freeze over
8 – Caveman/Mancave
9 – Catwalk
10 – Hiking in the woods (High King)
11 – Sandbox
12 – Lovebirds
A short history of rebus puzzles
1 – Crossbow
2 – Eggs over easy
3 – Coffee break
4 – Multiple choice
5 – Come into season
6 – I’ll get over it
7 – Raincheck
8 – I’m bigger than you
9 – Illegal (ill eagle)
10 – Double agent
11 – Rock n roll
12 – Good afternoon
1 – Look me in the eye
2- Electric blanket
3 – Banknote
4 – One foot in the door
5- Bookcase
6 – Five kilograms overweight
7 – Highway
8 – Way to go
9 – Toothpick
10 – Underdogs
11 – Heartbeat
12 – Light rain
1 – Sunroof
2 – X-ray
3 – Doghouse
4 – Excuse me
5 – French fry/French fries
6 – Pardon me
7 – Mousetrap
8 – Turnip
9 – Phone numbers
10 – Uproar
11 – Thunderstorm
12 – Weekend
1 – Cuba
2 -Eiffel Tower
3 – Supermarket
4 – Laundromat
5 – Angkor Wat
6 – Tunnel
7 – Iran
8 – Boxing ring
9 – Mount Rushmore
10 – Finland
11 – Micronesia
12 – Hairdresser
1 – Microscope
2 – One night stand
3 – Eye sockets
4 – Houseplant
5 – Neighbourhood
6 – Failure
7 – Headquarters
8 – Blanket
9 – Cut corners
10 – Cocktail
11 – Tennis shoes
12 – Summary
1 – Teacup
2 – Fly screen
3 – Metaphor
4 – Leftover/Turnover
5 – Bad influence
6 – Backhand
7 – Sunken
8 – Wise guy
9 – Stay indoors
10 – Crystallise/Crystallize
11 – Elbow
12 – New Zealand
1 – Unbroken
2 – Highchair
3 – Foul language
4 – Summer
5 – Cattle (cat ill)
6 – Four seasons
7 – Mutate
8 – Coloring/ For coloring
9 – Indian food
10 – The underdog
11 – The birds and the bees
12 – Tripod.
1 – Pecan nuts
2 – Seasoning
3 – Karaoke (carry ok)
4 – Easel
5 – Horsefly
6 – Shotgun
7 – Discount
8 – Shoplift
9 – Sidekicks
10 – Gum tree
11 – Keep your eyes on the ball
12 – Fortunate
1 – Shake a leg
2 – Hot under the collar
3 – Sweet tooth
4 – An old hand
5 – A bone to pick
6 – To be in a pickle
7 – Fingers crossed
8 – See eye to eye
9 – Backburner
10 – Sixth sense
11 – Breaking point
12 – On second thought
1 – Word of mouth
2 – A chain of events
3 – Sleep on it
4 – Jockey for position
5 – Hit the hay
6 – All in a days work
7 – Door to door
8 – Draw blood
9 – A flash in the pan
10 – A barrel of laughs
11 – Two ships passing in the night
12 – Safe and sound
1 – Holy man
2 – Be on time
3 – Trillion
4 – Peasants
5 – Backpedal
6 – Forecast
7 – Noodles
8 – Surface
9 – Launder money
10 – Peace on earth
11 – Hand in hand
12 – Beetroot
1 – India (In D ah)
2 – Lunatics
3 – Mayonnaise
4 -Elbows
5 – Administrator
6 – Entree
7 – Leftovers
8 – Domino
9 – Rampant
10 – Cold beer
11 – Canine
12 – July (jewel eye)
1 – Capacitator
2 – Integrate
3 – Noisy
4 – No one to call
5 – Fishwife
6 – Escape
7 – Seasoning
8 – Spacesuit
9 – Wide awake
10 – Limestone
11 – Snowed
12 – Canoe
1 -Ninjas
2 – Open
3 – Tinfoil
4 – Vetoed
5 – Snow/Snot
6 -Sequel (Sea quill)
7 – Teepees
8 – Rainbow
9 – Spearhead
10 – Wreath (W + reef)
11 – Reptiles
12 – Coconut palm
1 – Justice
2 – Careers (car ears)
3 – Eyeliner
4 – Shorten
5 – Infantry (in fan tree)
6 – Exit
7 – Tyrant (tire/tyre ant)
8 – Tender
9 – Shelf life
10 – Everything’s all right
11 – Relieves (RE leaves)
12 – Defense (D fence)
1 – Warm up
2 – Mess around
3 – Bite back
4 – Get into
5 – Blow up
6 – Die down
7 – Pop up
8 – Care for
9 – Catch on
10 – Peel away
11 – Bear with
12 – Aim at
1 – Badger
2 – Tombstone
3 – Mountaineer
4 – Lobster (lob + star)
5 – Millimeters
6 – Canine (K9)
7 – Checkpoint
8 – Lilypad
9 – Household
10 – Subject
11 – Express
12 – Beacon
1 – Ceramic
2 – Oasis
3 – Forage (four+rage)
4 – Racketeers (rack+e+tears)
5 – Diploma
6 – Ingrown nail
7 – Corrode
8 – Policy
9 – Kilometer
10 – Cashew
11 – Romantic
12 – Generate/Generating
1 – Sweatbox
2 – Passerby
3 – Warplanes (warp+lanes)
4 – Emergency
5 – Saturn
6 – Discoveries
7 – Intermediate
8 – Publicant
9 – Dragon
10 – Jasmine tea
11 – Infinity
12 – Advanced
1 – I forget
2 – Heat
3 – Prologue
4 – Informal
5 – Pirate
6 – Coincides
7 – Catacomb
8 – Ghostwriter/ Ghostrider
9 – Streetlight
10 -Drainpipe
11 – Footnote/Soul music
12 – Jungle
1 – Empty
2 – Ballerina
3 – Straw hat
4 – Backpacking
5 – Curtain
6 – Photo finish
7 – Patent
8 – Please
9 – Handrail/Handrails
10 -Resound
11 – Chills
12 – Government
1 – Determine/Detergent
2 – Sharpen
3 – Entire
4 – Algae
5 – Radish/Sorcerer (Saucer + Ra)
6 – Bumper sticker
7 – Pliers
8 – Login
9 – Cargo pants
10 – Pottery
11 – Spy (S + pie)
12 – Chairlift
1 – Hippo
2 – Clarinet
3 – Sandwich
4 – Decent/Descent
5 – Exchanges
6 – Kingfisher
7 – Bandages (banned ages)
8 – Correlate
9 – Thunderclap (Th under clap)
10 – Dandelion
11 – Industry
12 – Roman Empire
1 – Blacklist
2 – Backseat driver
3 – Economic
4 – Abandon ship
5 – Forensics
6 – Up in arms
7 – Saddle (sad + dill)
8 – Dog bowl
9 – Meteor
10 – Caterpillar
11 – Half price/Cut price
12 – Divine
1 – Never mind/ Don’t mind
2 – Odd jobs
3 – Disintegrate
4 – Ransack
5 – Narwhal
6 – Parent
7 – Moonscape
8 – Decoy
9 – Fuselage
10 – Cool
11 – Frighten
12 – Escapee
1 – Furnace
2 – Wetland
3 – Radios/Two-way radio
4 – Explain (X + planer)
5 – Bedtime story/ Bedtime reading
6 – Hardball
7 – Minibar/Searchbar
8 – Notoriety
9 – Engulf/Driven
10 – Superpower
11 – Wink
12 – Flippers/Callers
1 – Bakersfield
2 – Houston (Hue stun)
3 – Pittsburgh
4 – Garland
5 – San Diego
6 – Milwaukee
7 – Jacksonville
8 – El Paso
9 – Wichita
10 – Spokane
11 – Colorado Springs
12 – Chesapeake
1 -South Carolina
2 – Georgia
3 – Wisconsin
4 – Pennsylvania
5 – Rhode Island
6 – Connecticut
7 – Kansas
8 – Maine
9 – Ohio
10 – Tennessee
11 – Hawaii
12 – Minnesota
1 – Bolivia
2 – Bahrain
3 – Israel
4 – Ukraine (ewe + crane)
5 -Madagascar
6 – Canada (can + adder)
7 – Pakistan
8 – Haiti (Hi + E.T.)
9 – Russia (rush + a)
10 – Colombia (call om beer)
11 – Tonga
12 – Yemen
1 – Condor
2 – Hispanic
3 – Pillowcase (pill + okays)
4 – Address
5 – Schoolbook
6 – Moisture
7 – Hot plate (hot + pl x eight)
8 – Drywall/Wall hanging
9 – Bleak/Bunions
10 – Incubate ( In Q Bait)
11 – Orchid (Orc + Kid)
12 – Daybreak/Midday break
1 – Jackfruit
2 – Banana (Bar + Na + Na)
3 – Wonton
4 – Cabbage (cab + age)
5 – Spinach
6 – Squid
7 – Raisins
8 – Escargot
9 – Pate
10 – Paella (pay + Ela)
11 – Quiche
12 – Quail
1 – Lemur
2 – Undergrowth
3 – Motorway (motor + weigh)
4 – Hebrews
5 – Rodeo
6 – Hyperbole
7 – Archaeology
8 – Wisecracker
9 – Bloodstream
10 – Intertwine
11 – Croquet (crow + kay)
12 – Nocturnal
1 – Polo
2 – Pilates
3 – Crochet
4 – Wakeboarding
5 – Aikido
6 – Backpacking
7 – Horse riding
8 – Origami
9 – Hopscotch
10 – Baking
11 – Carpentry
12 – Rugby
1 – Whale (weigh + ill)
2 – Bandicoot
3 – Porcupine
4 – Stick Insect
5 – Manatee
6 – Hamster (Ham + stir)
7 – Weasel
8 – Bison (Buy + Sun)
9 – Sea Urchin
10 – Hornbill
11 – Mongoose
12 – Eagle (E + Gill)
1 – Pheasant
2 – Blue Jay
3 – Crows
4 – Finch
5 – Flamingo
6 – Stork
7 – Swallow
8 – Cuckoo/Potoo
9 – Parrot
10 – Nightingale
11 – Emu
12 – Starling
1 – Mahogany (ma + hog + ah + knee)
2 – Cilantro ( sill + ant + row)
3 – Poppy
4 – Bergonia (beg on ia)
5 – Cedar
6 – Hydrangea
7 – Coffee
8 – Daisy ( Day Z)
9 – Red onion
10 – Monstera
11 – Wasabi
12 – Jasmine
1 – Crossbreeds (Cross b + reeds)
2 – Ignite
3 – Silicone (Silly cone)
4 – Alpine (L pine)
5 – Intensive
6 – Moodswing
7 – Nunchucks
8 – Flawless
9 – Dashing (Dash in G)
10 – Electrode (elect road)
11 – Entrails
12 – Bungees
1 – Climate
2 – Rampage (Ram + page)
3 – Sedates
4 – Wager
5 – Groundbreaking (G round + breaking)
6 – Incarcerated (In car + serrated)
7 – Troopers (Troop + rrr’s)
8 – To be in cahoots (Two bee in car hoots)
9 – SCUBA (S cub A)
10 – Four-leaf clovers (4 leaf cl over S)
11 – Enlargement (N + large M + ent)
12 – Reflexes (RE flexes)
1 – Chauffeur (Show 4)
2 – Manager (Man + age + r)
3 – Pawnbroker
4 – Tailor
5 – Steward
6 – Cobbler
7 – Coroner (Core on err)
8 – Accountant ( A count + ant)
9 – Scout
10 – Surgeon
11 -Novelist (No ve list)
12 – Inventor (In vent or)
1 – Siren ( sigh + wren)
2 – Gnome (No M)
3 – Manticore (Man + tea + caw)
4 – Trolls ( T rolls)
5 – Minotaur (M in O + torn – n)
6 – Wyverns (Y + V shaped with urns)
7 – Shapeshifter
8 – Ogre (O + Grrrr)
9 – Sasquatch (Sa + squat + ch)
10 – Golem (Goal M)
11 -Pixie (Picks E)
12 – Behemoth
1 – Pillows (Pill o’s)
2 – Blender (B lend R)
3 – Cabinet (Cab in net)
4 – Counter (Count R)
5 – Bucket
6 – Toilet
7 – Rubber band (Rub + r + band)
8 – Toothpaste ( 2 TH + pay st)
9 – Hammer (Ham + r)
10 – Matches
11 – Wardrobe (Ward + robe)
12 – Cutlery
1 – Perch (Purr + ch)
2 – John Dory (Saint John + door e)
3 – Snapper
4 – Sturgeon (Stir + /dʒ/ + N)
5 – Herring (Hair ing)
6 – Tiger Barb (Tie + ger + barb)
7 – Halibut (Howl + a bit)
8 – Oscar (OS + Car)
9 – Smelt (Smell + t)
10 – Mahi Mahi (Ma + he x2)
11 – Shark (Shhh + ark)
12 – Trevally (Tre valley)
1 – Warranties (War on ttttt s)
2 – Barn (Baa + Rn)
3 – Jabber
4 – Wok (W + OK)
5 – To run for one’s money
6 – Subdivide/Subdivision
7 – Shortcuts (shorts + cuts)
8 – Barefoot (Bear foot)
9 – A bone to pick
10 – Strawberry donut Strawberry D on ut)
11 – Scratch around
12 – Seventh (S + event + H)
1 – To see stars (2 C stars)
2 – Pressed for time (Press + D + 4x time)
3 – To end on a sour note
4 – No room to swing a cat
5 – Sick bed
6 – Deform (D + 4x m)
7 – To run afoul
8 – Close but no cigar
9 – Diversities (Diver + cities)
10 -Apache (A patch E)
11 – Commanding (Comma + n + ding)
12 – Call to arms/Tough call
1 – Andaman Sea (And + a man + C)
2 – Boat (Boa + t)
3 – Abalone (AB + alone)
4 – Tanker (Tan + ker)
5 – Trilobite
6 – Pirate (Pie + rate)
7 – Sea change (The C is changing)
8 – Limpets (Limb + pets)
9 – Cuttlefish (Cut L fish)
10 – High tide (Hi tied)
11 – Plankton (The man is planking on a scale at 1000 kg)
12 – Sea legs (Seal + eggs)
1 – Lake (Lay + /k/)
2 – Stagnant (Stang n ant)
3 – Spray (The S is/has prey)
4 – Saline (Say line)
5 – Freeze
6 – Irrigate (Ear e gate)
7 – Drinkable
8 – Saturate (Sat + u and r eight)
9 – Trickle (Trick L)
10 – Steam (S team)
11 – Submerge (Sub + merge)
12 – Shallow (Shell O)
1 – Cheese/Chinese (Ch ee’s/Ch in EE’s)
2 – Cellulite
3 – Backtracks
4 – Catapult
5 – Jailbreak/Jailbroken ( J L break)
6 – Kayak
7 – Rapid (Wrap ID)
8 – Sticky tape
9 – Mayonnaise (May on aaa’s)
10 – Heydays (Hay + days)
11 – Flower/Flowery/Streamer (Flow + e + r)
12 – Candle (Can dill)
1 – Undergrowth (under G + row th)
2 – Complain
3 – Pollute (Pole + lute)
4 – Globetrotter
5 – Forest (Four est)
6 – Pester (An R made of pests)
7 – Misprints
8 – Buzzard (Animals that buzz + ard)
9 – Ideal (Eye + deal)
10 – Bearings (Bear rings)
11 – Tapioca (Tap e o car)
12 – Hypnotise (Hip knot eyes)
1 – Cheese/Chinese (Ch ee’s/Ch in EE’s)
2 – Cellulite
3 – Backtracks
4 – Catapult
5 – Jailbreak/Jailbroken ( J L break)
6 – Kayak
7 – Rapid (Wrap ID)
8 – Sticky tape
9 – Mayonnaise (May on aaa’s)
10 – Heydays (Hay + days)
11 – Flower/Flowery/Streamer (Flow + e + r)
12 – Candle (Can dill)
1 – Whiskers (Whisk + r’s)
2 – Condescending
3 – Lazy/Lazyboy
4 – Just in case (Just in kays)
5 – Sportspeople (sports peep L)
6 – Cornflakes (Corn + F lakes)
7 – Pointless
8 – Rockabilly (Rock A Bill E)
9 – Windbreaker (Wind break R)
10 – Springtime
11 – Softener (Soft N + R)
12 – Canteen
1 – Cheese/Chinese (Ch ee’s/Ch in EE’s)
2 – Cellulite
3 – Backtracks
4 – Catapult
5 – Jailbreak/Jailbroken ( J L break)
6 – Kayak
7 – Rapid (Wrap ID)
8 – Sticky tape
9 – Mayonnaise (May on aaa’s)
10 – Heydays (Hay + days)
11 – Flower/Flowery/Streamer (Flow + e + r)
12 – Candle (Can dill)
1 – Acne
2 – Mixture (mixed the letters of ture)
3- Bacon (bay con)
4 – Tissues (tear shoes)
5 – Bamboo
6 – Dialogue (Die a log)
7 – Intensity (In 10 city)
8 – Pumpkin (Pump + kin)
9 – Sheriffs (share ifs)
10 – Details
11 – Shipyard
12 – Exercise (XR size)
1 – Icicle (eye cycle)
2 – Chilly/Icy (chill + E)
3 – Arctic (Ark + tick)
4 – Mitten (mit x 10)
5 – Goosebumps
6 – Influenza (in flu enza)
7 – Minus degrees (Mine us degrees)
8 – Snow (S + no)
9 – Hibernation (Nigh + ber + nation)
10 – Alpine (L pine)
11 – Jacket (jack ET)
12 – Quilt
1 – Casino (Case in O)
2 – Change (Chain GE)
3 – Baggage (Bag + age)
4 – Uprising
5 – No Parking (No + park + king)
6 – Bombard
7 – Racketeering
8 – Sealant
9 – Opacity (Opa seat E)
10 – Sacred (Say + cred)
11 – Heater
12 – Carols (Car rolls)
1 – Crayons (Cray on S)
2 – Dark matter
3 – Foreigners (4 rain Rs)
4 – Inroads
5 – Carpenter
6 – Protest
7 – Rwanda
8 – Fuselage (Fuse L large)
9 – Hairspray (Hare + s + pray)
10 – Highrise/High seas
11 – Clickbait
12 – Fort Knox (Fout /t/ + knocks)
1 – Shorts (Shore ts)/Seats
2 – Labels (Lay bells)
3 – Storage unit (Store age ewe knit)
4 – Arcane (Arc + cane)
5 – Stabilise (Stable + eyes)
6 – Canvas (VAS made of cans)
7 – Braces (Bray sez)/Assesses
8 – Paint
9 – Scrooge (Screw + /dʒ/)
10 – Thinktank
11 – Linebacker (Lion + back + r)
12 – Troll/Trolling (The tr is rolling)
1 – Simpleton (SIM pull tonne)
2 – Hidden fortress
3 – Moisturising
4 – Insensative (in sense ative)
5 – Ladders (L adders)
6 – Cable tie (K Bell + tie)
7 – Delivery man (D liver e man)
8 – Owl (Ow + L)
9 – Ointment (O in tmint)
10 – Worship (Were + ship)
11 – Dignity (Dig knee tea)
12 – Unite (U night)
1 – Lumberjack
2 -Bakelite
3 – Not so often (knot so of x 10)
4 – Upperclass (Up + R + class)
5 – Emulate (Emu late)
6 – Currency (Currants + Sea)
7 – Bullseye (Bull + Sigh)
8 – Arson
9 – Infidels ( In fid L’s)
10 – Mohawk
11 – Impeaches
12 – Palm reading
1 – Dugong/Dewgong
2 -Overprice (over P rice)
3 – Kaleidoscope
4 – Rebate (reb 8)
5 – For certain (4 sir tain)
6 – Campus (camp US)
7 – Trapeze
8 – Greenland
9 – Gossip (go + s + sip)
10 – Pipedream
11 – Choose/choosy (chew + z)
12 – Stereo (stare EO)
1 – Innovation ( In O vation)
2 -Stem cells
3 – Bluetooth
4 – Junk email/phishing email
5 – Software ( Soft + where)
6 – Diagnostics (Die + ag + no sticks)
7 – Digital device
8 – Drone (DR + one)
9 – Physics (Fizz + ics)
10 – Forward thinking (4 xward + thin + king)
11 – Rocketry (Rock + et + tree)
12 – Game console (Game + con + sole)
1 – Chipmunk (The ball is being chipped over a monk)
2 -Tortoise (tore tis, past tense of tear)
3 – Partridge (A mountain ridge with parts)
4 – Anteater (An teteering on a cliff)
5 – Bald eagle (Bald e gal/girl)
6 – Snails ( S made of nails)
7 – Puff adder (Puff add R)
8 – Reindeer (Dear = expensive + rain)
9 – Ostrich
10 – German Shepherd
11 – Springboks (spring box)
12 – Tapir (Tap here)
1 – Obesity (OB city)
2 -Weight loss (wait + loss)
3 – Pilates (pill + lattes)
4 – Muscle mass
5 – Check up
6 – Insurance (in SUR ants)
7 – Pharmacy (farm + AC)
8 – Active
9 – Emergency (emerge NC)
10 – Well-being (well + B in G)
11 – Emotional
12 – Recovery (RE cover Y)
1 – Guidelines
2 – Porous (Pour + US)
3 – Toothpaste (2 X TH + pay + ST)
4 – Somedays (Sum days)
5 – Backseat driver
6 – Fight tooth and nail
7 – Knighthood
8 – Missile (Miss + aisle)
9 – Undertaker (Under take R)
10 – Boulder (Bowl + der)
11 – Preacher (P reach R)
12 – Embraces (M braces)
1 – Steak (stay + k)
2 – Orange (O +range)
3 – Sauce
4 – Fruit (Threw + /t/)
5 – Corn (Core + n)
6 – Delivery
7 – Plumb
8 – Grapes
9 – Carbonara
10 – Mango (Man + go)
11 – Kebabs (Keb + abs)
12 – Bread
1 – Attack
2 – Sortie (sore + tea)
3 – Patrol (pat + troll)
4 – Operation
5 – Strike force
6 – Infantry (infant + tree)
7 – Cannonball
8 – Stealth (steal + th)
9 – In the trenches (T wrenches in the)
10 – Troops (true + pss)
11 – Warfare (wharf + air)
12 – Army
1 – Castle (cast + le)
2 – Spicy (spy + C)
3 – Pillage (pill + age)
4 – 3rd Dimension (third die mention)
5 – Rhino horn (rye + no horn)
6 – Altercation (altar + caution – u)
7 – Blockade (block + aid)
8 – Before too long
9 – Spread like wildfire
10 – Low and behold (low and + bee + hold)
11 – Sparrow (spar + row)
12 – Cement (C men + /t/)
1 – Assault (A salt)
2 – Rollerblade
3 – Hermit (Her mitt)
4 – Not for a minute (knot 4 a minute)
5 – Questionable
6 – Low down dirty shame
7 – Seasoning (Seas on ing)
8 – Sprite (SP right)
9 – Mementoes (Me men toes)
10 – Athens (At hens)
11 – Definite (Deaf in it)
12 – Laughing stock
1 – Foreground (4 x G round)
2 – Unicorn (Ewe knee corn)
3 – Fencing (Fence + sing)
4 – Blueprints
5 – Trainer
6 – Protractor
7 – Crawlspace (C + roar +L + space)
8 – Gemini (Gem in eye)
9 – Leftovers
10 – Squeaky clean (Squeak + E + clean)
11 – Security
12 – Satellite (Sat + L + light)
1 – Achives (Arc + hives)
2 – Tapestries (Tap + S + trees)
3 – Monolith (monkey – key + olith)
4 – Mummy (Mum + e)
5 – Invention (In vent + tion)
6 – Tombstone (2 x mb + stone
7 – Records (RE + chords)
8 – Fossil (Foss on a windowsill)
9 – Barbarians (Bar + bear + ians)
10 – Spartans (Spa + tans)
11 – Tutankhamen (Toot + and + car + men)
12 – Empires (M + pie + r’s)
1 – Telegram (Tell + e + gram)
2 – Habitat (Habi tattoo)
3 – Notarize (Note + a + rise)
4 – Slash and burn
5 – Irrecoverable (Irrec over able)
6 – Offshoot/ On point
7 – Barbecue (Baa + b + cue)
8 – Kryptonite (Crypt + o + night)
9 – Battle lines/Battles
10 – Slipstream
11 – A shoe in
12 – Investigator (Invest + i + gator)
1 – Carrot (Car + rot)
2 – Bland (BL + land)
3 – Artichoke (Art + i + choke)
4 – Peking duck (Pea + king + duck)
5 – Bolognaise (Bowl on aaaa’s)
6 – Sausage (Saw + sage)
7 – Salty/Salt (Sole + t)
8 – Cereal (Sear + eel)
9 – Gnocci (Knock + e)
10 – Pepperoni (Pepper on i)
11 – Quiche (Key + shhh)
12 – Cannelloni (Can + alone e)
1 – To rake someone over the coals (2X Ray +/k/ + Sum + 1 + coals over THE)
2 – Make a break for it (M +ache + A + B + rake + 4X it)
3 – Play mind games
4 – To draw a line in the sand (2X draw + a + lion in the sand)
5 – Last but not least (Last + butt + knot + East with L)
6 – Pushing up daisies
7 – A heavy cross to bear
8 – Or better yet (Oar + bet +r + yeti – i)
1 – Send out the wrong signals
2 – Turn on the waterworks
3 – You are what you eat
4 – Any port in a storm (N e + paw +/t/ in a storm)
5 – Burn the candle at both ends (Burn the + can + dill + start and finish are two ends of a race)
6 – Bore to tears (Boar + 2 x tears)
7 – Super-dooper (Soup R + do purr)
8 – Go on a rampage
1 – Flip flops (flip + F + lops + S)
2 – Catch some rays/Catch rays
3 – Mosquitoes (Mosque + toes with e)
4 – Picnic (Pick + Nick)
5 – Sweaty (S + wet E)
6 – Shaved ice (Shave + dice)
7 – Take a dip
8 – Popcicle (pop + sickle)
9 – Sandals (Sand + L’s)
10 – Iced tea (eyes + tee)
11 – Scorcher (score + cher)
12 – Sailing (Say + ling)
1 – Skating on thin ice (thin eyes)
2 – Tenfold
3 – Varmint (VAR + mint)
4 – Individual (In D Vid + duel)
5 – A tough nut to crack
6 – Run around in circles
7 – Happens in a heartbeat ( Ha pens in a heart + beat)
8 – Fellowship (fell + o + ship)
9 – Lap of the gods
10 – First among equals
11 – To punch above one’s weight
12 – Look on the bright side/Search day and night
1 – Subwoofer
2 – Undelivered
3 – Quadruple (Quad + drew + pull)
4 – End up behind bars
5 – Long distance (Long D + stance)
6 – Dine and dash (Die N and dash)
7 – Hell bent for leather/Hell for leather
8 – Sadder but wiser (Sad R + butt wise R)
9 – Cantonese (Con’t on knees)
10 – A window of opportunity
11 – Season’s greetings
12 – A man in demand
1 – Antimatter (Anti + mat R)
2 – Event horizon
3 – Aurora (Oar + oar + Aghrrr)
4 – Orbit (Orb + IT)
5 – Miky Way (Mill + key + way)
6 – Shuttle missions (Shut + til + missions)
7 – Equinox (Equine + Ox)
8 – Sadder but wiser (Sad R + butt wise R)
9 – Exoplanet (XO + plan + net)
10 – Halo (Hay + low)
11 – Light-years (the animals are all years in the Chinese lunar calendar
12 – Spacetime
1 – Bang to rights
2 – Hang on for dear life
3 – Swallow one’s pride
4 – I’m afraid so
5 – To jam on the brakes
6 – Get down to the truth
7 – It’s to die for
8 – Have it in for someone
9 – Home and hosed
10 – Be in good shape
11 – No mean feat
12 – More often than not
1 – Tornado (Torn A Do)
2 – Warchest
3 – Payroll
4 – Sideswiper
5 – Melancholy (Melanc + holy)
6 – Stretcher
7 – Mistake
8 – Tennis match (Ten S + match)
9 – Count Dracula
10 – Toolbar
11 – Masonry
12 – Sweepstake
Related activities
If you like these puzzles, check back as the page is constantly being updated with new ones. There are also other engaging activities that test the intellect here that you will enjoy.
Have a look at the printable brain teasers pages, which have a variety of different things to solve. There are also the printable anagrams puzzles and the printable riddles worksheets for extra cerebral enjoyment.
If you’d like something for children, there are also the printable kids rebus puzzles, which are basically just simple compound nouns.
