Ohio word search word list

15 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

• Amish
• Bengals
• Browns
• Buckeye
• Canton
• Cardinal
• Carnation
• Cincinnati
• Cleveland
• Columbus
• Dayton
• Erie
• Reds
• Scarlet
• Toledo

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.

• Amish — Traditional Christian community known for horse-drawn buggies and plain dress
• Bengals — Cincinnati's NFL football team
• Browns — Cleveland's NFL football team
• Buckeye — Nut-bearing tree that gives this state its nickname
• Canton — Ohio city that hosts the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Cardinal — Bright red crested songbird
• Carnation — Frilled buttonhole flower
• Cincinnati — Ohio city on the border with Kentucky
• Cleveland — Ohio city on Lake Erie, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Columbus — Ohio's capital, also its largest city
• Dayton — Ohio birthplace of the Wright brothers
• Erie — Great Lake that borders northern Ohio
• Reds — Cincinnati's Major League Baseball team
• Scarlet — Deep red color paired with gray at Ohio State
• Toledo — Ohio city near the Michigan border, on Lake Erie

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.