Alaska word search word list

12 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make 1 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 1-puzzle book comes to 10 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Anchorage
• Aurora
• Denali
• Forgetmenot
• Glacier
• Iditarod
• Juneau
• Lastfrontier
• Midnightsun
• Permafrost
• Ptarmigan
• Sitkaspruce

Copy freely. One per line or comma-separated pastes straight into the generator's "Your own list" box if you want to add or remove words.

Crossword clues for every word

The same list with a plain-language clue for each word — written for the crossword type, and free to use in a grid you build yourself. Copy the lines as they are (word — clue) into the generator's own-list box and it makes the crossword for you.

• Anchorage — Alaska's largest city, home to nearly half the state's entire population
• Aurora — Northern lights
• Denali — Tallest peak in North America, rising over 20,000 feet in Alaska
• Forgetmenot — Small blue flower with a plea in its name
• Glacier — Slow river of ice
• Iditarod — Famous long-distance sled dog race across the Alaskan wilderness
• Juneau — Alaska's capital, reachable only by air or sea, with no road connection to the rest of the state
• Lastfrontier — Alaska's nickname, evoking its vast wilderness and remoteness
• Midnightsun — Summer phenomenon in Alaska where the sun barely sets near the solstice
• Permafrost — Alaska's perpetually frozen subsurface ground, present across much of the state
• Ptarmigan — Alaska's state bird, a grouse that turns white for winter camouflage
• Sitkaspruce — Tall coastal evergreen and Alaska's official state tree, named for a historic coastal town

A puzzle made from it

Medium difficulty: across, down and diagonals, nothing backwards. Every word appears exactly once — the generator checks the finished grid rather than assuming. Solutions are in the book, not on this page.