Kansas word search word list

10 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: SUNFLOWER sits inside SUNFLOWERSTATE — 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 1 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 1-puzzle book comes to 10 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Cottonwood
• Dodgecity
• Flinthills
• Meadowlark
• Sunflower
• Sunflowerstate
• Topeka
• Tornadoalley
• Wheat
• Wichita

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.

• Cottonwood — State tree of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, a fast-growing riverside tree with heart-shaped leaves
• Dodgecity — Historic Kansas frontier town famous for its Wild West gunfights
• Flinthills — Kansas tallgrass prairie region, one of the last of its kind
• Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
• Sunflower — Tall bloom that follows the sun
• Sunflowerstate — Kansas's nickname, taken from its official golden bloom
• Topeka — Kansas's capital city, along the Kansas River
• Tornadoalley — Central U.S. corridor including Kansas, prone to severe spring storms
• Wheat — Golden grain crop that made Kansas a leading U.S. producer
• Wichita — Kansas's largest city, an aviation manufacturing hub

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.