Thanksgiving word search word list

50 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: BREAD sits inside CORNBREAD — never put both in the same puzzle, or the shorter one is found twice. The generator keeps them apart automatically.

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The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make hundreds of different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 100-puzzle book comes to 124 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Abundance
• Acorn
• Apple
• Autumn
• Blessing
• Bounty
• Bread
• Casserole
• Celebrate
• Cider
• Cinnamon
• Cornbread
• Cornucopia
• Cousins
• Cranberry
• Dessert
• Dinner
• Family
• Feast
• Gathering
• Grateful
• Gravy
• Harvest
• Holiday
• Hospitality
• Kitchen
• Leftovers
• Maize
• Mashed
• Napkins
• November
• Nutmeg
• Parade
• Pecan
• Pilgrim
• Platter
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Recipes
• Relatives
• Roasting
• Settlers
• Sharing
• Squash
• Stuffing
• Sweater
• Thankful
• Tradition
• Turkey
• Yams

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.

• Abundance — Plenty
• Acorn — Oak tree's nut
• Apple — Fruit that keeps the doctor away
• Autumn — Season of falling leaves
• Blessing — Grace said before the meal
• Bounty — Generous harvest
• Bread — Baked loaf
• Casserole — Slow-cooked dish in a lidded pot
• Celebrate — Mark a happy occasion
• Cider — Drink pressed from apples
• Cinnamon — Spice from a curled bark
• Cornbread — Golden Southern bake made from maize meal
• Cornucopia — Horn of plenty
• Cousins — Your aunt's children
• Cranberry — Tart red fruit served as a sauce with the turkey
• Dessert — Sweet final course
• Dinner — Main meal of the day
• Family — Relatives gathered together
• Feast — Lavish meal
• Gathering — People coming together
• Grateful — Thankful
• Gravy — Sauce made from the roasting juices
• Harvest — Gathering in the crops
• Holiday — Day off for a celebration
• Hospitality — Welcoming of guests
• Kitchen — Room where the feast is cooked
• Leftovers — Food kept for the next day
• Maize — Corn on the cob, as a crop
• Mashed — Potatoes beaten smooth
• Napkins — Set beside every plate
• November — Month of the fourth-Thursday holiday
• Nutmeg — Spice grated over pumpkin pie
• Parade — Procession down the main street
• Pecan — Nut in a Southern pie
• Pilgrim — Traveller to a holy place
• Platter — Large serving dish
• Potatoes — Roots mashed or roasted for the table
• Pumpkin — Big orange squash carved in autumn
• Recipes — Written instructions for dishes
• Relatives — Family members
• Roasting — Cooking the bird in the oven
• Settlers — The first colonists
• Sharing — Giving others a portion
• Squash — Gourd vegetable baked in autumn
• Stuffing — Bread mixture cooked inside the bird
• Sweater — Knitted top for a cold day
• Thankful — Full of gratitude
• Tradition — Custom passed down the years
• Turkey — Bird roasted for Thanksgiving
• Yams — Orange roots baked with marshmallows

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.

On sale by 26 November

US Thanksgiving is Thursday 26 November in 2026. KDP's Timelines help page says "it takes 3 business days for your book (or update) to be live on Amazon", and that publishing "may take up to 6 days" for an account that has never published a book. It says low-content book reviews are taking longer than usual right now, three to four weeks. KDP's low-content page says that category "does not typically include activity books, such as puzzle books or coloring books". KDP also takes only 2 new paperbacks a week from each account for publication, counted when first submitted and reset every Sunday at 12:00 AM UTC (Create a Book help), so a seasonal book takes one of that week’s two. Leave a few days' margin, and check the Timelines page on the day you publish.

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