Indiana word search word list

13 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

• Basketball
• Cardinal
• Cornfield
• Firefly
• Hoosier
• Indianapolis
• Limestone
• Mastodon
• Peony
• Popcorn
• Speedway
• Tuliptree
• Wabash

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.

• Basketball — Game of hoops and dribbling
• Cardinal — Bright red crested songbird
• Cornfield — Where the maize grows
• Firefly — Glowing insect seen flickering over summer lawns at dusk
• Hoosier — Nickname for a resident of Indiana
• Indianapolis — Midwest capital city famous for a car race held every Memorial Day
• Limestone — Sedimentary rock widely quarried in Tennessee and Indiana for buildings and monuments
• Mastodon — Indiana's state fossil, an extinct elephant-like mammal
• Peony — Blowsy pink bloom of early summer
• Popcorn — Cinema snack that pops
• Speedway — Indianapolis venue for a famous 500-mile Memorial Day race
• Tuliptree — Indiana's tall state hardwood, with distinctive four-lobed leaves and yellow blossoms
• Wabash — Major river that flows through Indiana into the Ohio River

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.