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Hard fish and chips word search

Pineapple fritter, tartare sauce, crab stick and a chip sandwich: twenty-eight words from the takeaway counter in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal too. For a Friday night while the parcel cools down.

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  • Battered
  • Burger
  • Chicken nuggets
  • Chip sandwich
  • Crab stick
  • Crumbed
  • Fish and chips
  • Friday night
  • Gurnard
  • Hoki
  • Hot chips
  • Hot dog
  • Kūmara chips
  • Lemon
  • Mince pie
  • Mussel fritter
  • Newspaper
  • Onion rings
  • Pāua fritter
  • Pineapple fritter
  • Potato fritter
  • Salt
  • Scoop
  • Spring roll
  • Steak and cheese
  • Tartare sauce
  • Tomato sauce
  • Vinegar

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Fish and chips, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Battered
  • Burger
  • Chicken nuggets
  • Chip sandwich
  • Crab stick
  • Crumbed
  • Fish and chips
  • Friday night
  • Gurnard
  • Hoki
  • Hot chips
  • Hot dog
  • Kūmara chips
  • Lemon
  • Mince pie
  • Mussel fritter
  • Newspaper
  • Onion rings
  • Pāua fritter
  • Pineapple fritter
  • Potato fritter
  • Salt
  • Scoop
  • Spring roll
  • Steak and cheese
  • Tartare sauce
  • Tomato sauce
  • Vinegar

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Fish and chips, extra hard

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About this word search

The Kiwi chip shop menu goes well beyond fish. Pāua and mussel fritters, crab sticks and a battered pineapple ring, called a pineapple fritter, sit in the warmer next to the hot dogs, and a chip sandwich is plain white bread, butter and a handful of hot chips. In the old days the whole parcel was wrapped in newspaper.

This grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards as well. Pineapple fritter is the longest with sixteen letters. Steak and cheese and chicken nuggets have fourteen each. Salt and hoki are just four letters. Fritter turns up in four words and sauce in two, so check the whole word before you circle it.

For a Friday night at home, give everyone a sheet and a timer while the takeaways are on their way. Whoever finds the most words gets the crispiest chips.

Ways to use this word search

  • In the classroom

    Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.

  • Play together

    Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.

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