Maine word search word list
11 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
- Acadia
- Aroostook
- Augusta
- Blueberry
- Chickadee
- Katahdin
- Lobster
- Moose
- Pinetree
- Portlandhead
- Whitepine
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.
- Acadia — National park on Maine's rocky Atlantic coast
- Aroostook — Maine's northernmost county, known for its vast potato farms
- Augusta — Name shared by the Georgia city hosting the Masters golf event and Maine's capital
- Blueberry — Small dark fruit in muffins
- Chickadee — Small bird named for its call
- Katahdin — Highest peak in Maine, the end point of the Appalachian Trail
- Lobster — Clawed shellfish served with butter
- Moose — Largest deer, with broad flat antlers
- Pinetree — Nickname for Maine, referencing its vast forests
- Portlandhead — Historic lighthouse near Maine's largest city, one of the oldest in the U.S.
- Whitepine — State tree of Idaho and Maine, a tall conifer prized for its soft needles
A puzzle made from it
- ACADIA
- AROOSTOOK
- AUGUSTA
- BLUEBERRY
- CHICKADEE
- KATAHDIN
- LOBSTER
- MOOSE
- PINETREE
- PORTLANDHEAD
- WHITEPINE
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.
Turn it into a book
Puzzle Press makes the whole paperback for Amazon KDP — word search or criss-cross fill-in, this theme or several mixed, graded easy to hard if you like, solutions at the back, margins and page count to KDP's rules — then the cover. Free to use; the free book is watermarked and $19 once removes the mark.
Make a Maine word search book free