New York word search word list

16 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 16 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 16-puzzle book comes to 26 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Adirondack
• Albany
• Bluebird
• Broadway
• Brooklyn
• Catskills
• Empire
• Harlem
• Hudson
• Liberty
• Manhattan
• Maple
• Niagara
• Rose
• Subway
• Yankees

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.

• Adirondack — Mountain range in upstate New York known for hiking
• Albany — Capital city of New York State
• Bluebird — Sky-coloured songbird of happiness
• Broadway — Famous New York theater district known for musicals
• Brooklyn — New York City borough connected to Manhattan by a famous bridge
• Catskills — Mountain region in New York known for resorts and hiking
• Empire — New York's nickname, also describing a tall Manhattan skyscraper
• Harlem — Historic Manhattan neighborhood, center of a cultural renaissance
• Hudson — Major river flowing past New York City into the Atlantic
• Liberty — Freedom symbol — New York's harbor statue or Philadelphia's cracked bell
• Manhattan — Densely populated island borough of New York City
• Maple — Tree tapped for sweet syrup, New York's official state tree
• Niagara — Famous waterfalls on the New York-Canada border
• Rose — Thorny flower of love
• Subway — Underground train system used to travel around New York City
• Yankees — Famous New York baseball team with pinstripe uniforms

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.