California word search word list

17 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell. One thing to know if you build grids by hand: GOLDEN sits inside GOLDENGATE — never put both in the same puzzle, or the shorter one is found twice. The generator keeps them apart automatically.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make 136 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 100-puzzle book comes to 124 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Alcatraz
• Disneyland
• Earthquake
• Golden
• Goldengate
• Hollywood
• Losangeles
• Malibu
• Napa
• Poppy
• Quail
• Redwood
• Sacramento
• Sequoia
• Silicon
• Surfing
• Yosemite

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.

• Alcatraz — Former island prison in San Francisco Bay
• Disneyland — Original theme park resort in Anaheim, California
• Earthquake — Sudden shaking of the ground along a fault line
• Golden — Metallic yellow color, or California's nickname
• Goldengate — Famous red suspension bridge in San Francisco
• Hollywood — Los Angeles district famous for its film industry sign
• Losangeles — California's most populous city
• Malibu — Pacific coast city known for beaches and surfing
• Napa — California valley famous for wineries
• Poppy — Red flower of remembrance
• Quail — Small plump game bird
• Redwood — Towering California evergreen, among the tallest trees on Earth
• Sacramento — California's capital city
• Sequoia — Giant ancient tree species found in California's Sierra Nevada
• Silicon — Valley in California known for tech companies
• Surfing — Riding waves on a board
• Yosemite — California national park with towering granite cliffs and waterfalls

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.