Kansas word search word list
20 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: SUNFLOWER sits inside SUNFLOWERSTATE — 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
- Bison
- Bluestem
- Boxturtle
- Catfish
- Cottonwood
- Dodgecity
- Flinthills
- Galena
- Homeontherange
- Meadowlark
- Pteranodon
- Salamander
- Sandhillplum
- Sunflower
- Sunflowerstate
- Topeka
- Tornadoalley
- Tylosaurus
- Wheat
- Wichita
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.
- Bison — Shaggy North American plains grazer
- Bluestem — Little ___, the Kansas state grass
- Boxturtle — Ornate ___, the Kansas state reptile
- Catfish — Whiskered bottom-dwelling river swimmer, popular fried in the South
- Cottonwood — State tree of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, a fast-growing tree with heart-shaped leaves
- Dodgecity — Historic Kansas frontier town famous for its Wild West gunfights
- Flinthills — Kansas tallgrass prairie region, one of the last of its kind
- Galena — Lead ore, the Kansas state mineral
- Homeontherange — Kansas state song, where the deer and the antelope play
- Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
- Pteranodon — Toothless flying reptile, the official Kansas flying fossil
- Salamander — Barred tiger ___, the Kansas state amphibian
- Sandhillplum — Wild fruit named the Kansas state fruit in 2022
- Sunflower — Tall bloom that follows the sun
- Sunflowerstate — Kansas's nickname, taken from its official golden bloom
- Topeka — Kansas's capital city, along the Kansas River
- Tornadoalley — Central U.S. corridor including Kansas, prone to severe spring storms
- Tylosaurus — Huge mosasaur, the official Kansas marine fossil
- Wheat — Golden grain crop that made Kansas a leading U.S. producer
- Wichita — Kansas's largest city, an aviation manufacturing hub
A puzzle made from it
- BISON
- BLUESTEM
- BOXTURTLE
- CATFISH
- COTTONWOOD
- DODGECITY
- FLINTHILLS
- GALENA
- MEADOWLARK
- PTERANODON
- SALAMANDER
- SANDHILLPLUM
- SUNFLOWERSTATE
- TOPEKA
- TYLOSAURUS
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.
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