South Dakota 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

• Badlands
• Blackhills
• Cornpalace
• Crazyhorse
• Pasqueflower
• Pheasant
• Pierre
• Rushmore
• Siouxfalls
• Spruce
• Sturgis

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.

• Badlands — Dramatically eroded rock formations preserved in national parkland in both South Dakota and North Dakota
• Blackhills — Ancient pine-covered range in western South Dakota, sacred to the Lakota people
• Cornpalace — Mitchell, South Dakota building whose exterior murals are redecorated yearly with crop art
• Crazyhorse — Massive in-progress mountain carving of a Lakota leader, near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
• Pasqueflower — South Dakota's official spring bloom, a lavender-petaled bud that opens near Easter
• Pheasant — South Dakota's state bird, a colorful game bird introduced from Asia in the 1900s
• Pierre — South Dakota's capital city, one of the least populous state capitals in the country
• Rushmore — Iconic South Dakota mountainside carved with the faces of four U.S. presidents
• Siouxfalls — South Dakota's largest city, named for the cascades on its namesake river
• Spruce — Cone-bearing evergreen common in cold mountain regions, often used as a holiday tree
• Sturgis — South Dakota town famous for hosting a massive annual motorcycle rally each August

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.