Halloween word search word list

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

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

• Autumn
• Bats
• Bonfire
• Broomstick
• Cackle
• Candles
• Candy
• Cauldron
• Cemetery
• Cobweb
• Costume
• Creepy
• Crypt
• Dracula
• Eerie
• Fangs
• Frankenstein
• Ghost
• Ghoul
• Goblin
• Gravestone
• Haunted
• Howl
• Jackolantern
• Lantern
• Mask
• Midnight
• Monster
• Moonlight
• Mummy
• Nightmare
• October
• Ogre
• Owls
• Phantom
• Potion
• Pumpkin
• Raven
• Scarecrow
• Scary
• Shadow
• Shriek
• Skeleton
• Skull
• Spider
• Spooky
• Tombstone
• Treats
• Vampire
• Werewolf
• Witch
• Wizard
• Zombie

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.

• Autumn — Season of falling leaves
• Bats — Winged night flyers in the belfry
• Bonfire — Big outdoor blaze
• Broomstick — Witch's transport
• Cackle — Witch's laugh
• Candles — Wax lights in the window
• Candy — Sweets, in America
• Cauldron — Witch's cooking pot
• Cemetery — Graveyard
• Cobweb — Dusty spider's net in the corner
• Costume — Outfit worn to dress up
• Creepy — Unsettling, giving the shivers
• Crypt — Underground burial chamber
• Dracula — Famous count with fangs
• Eerie — Strangely frightening
• Fangs — Vampire's sharp teeth
• Frankenstein — Doctor who built a monster
• Ghost — Spirit that says boo
• Ghoul — Grave-robbing spirit
• Goblin — Mischievous ugly sprite
• Gravestone — Marker at the head of a plot
• Haunted — Visited by spirits
• Howl — Wolf's long cry
• Jackolantern — Carved, lit pumpkin
• Lantern — Portable light in a case
• Mask — Covers the face in disguise
• Midnight — The witching hour
• Monster — Frightening creature
• Moonlight — Glow on a clear night
• Mummy — Wrapped figure from an Egyptian tomb
• Nightmare — Bad dream
• October — Month that ends with the spooky night
• Ogre — Man-eating giant of fairy tales
• Owls — Night birds that hoot
• Phantom — Ghostly apparition
• Potion — Magic drink brewed by a witch
• Pumpkin — Big orange squash carved in autumn
• Raven — Black bird that said nevermore
• Scarecrow — Straw figure in a field
• Scary — Frightening
• Shadow — Dark shape cast by light
• Shriek — Piercing scream
• Skeleton — Frame of bones
• Skull — Bony head
• Spider — Eight-legged web spinner
• Spooky — Ghostly and strange
• Tombstone — Slab over a grave
• Treats — Sweets, as opposed to tricks
• Vampire — Blood-drinking creature of the night
• Werewolf — Man who changes under a full moon
• Witch — Pointed-hat spell caster
• Wizard — Male magic worker
• Zombie — The walking dead

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.