Maryland word search word list
12 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: CRAB sits inside CRABCAKE — 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 all 12 words into a single 15×15 puzzle. A list this size makes one puzzle, not a book — the theme picker is checkboxes, so tick a second list alongside this one and the generator will build as many different puzzles as the combined list allows.
The list
- Annapolis
- Baltimore
- Blackeyedsusan
- Chesapeake
- Crab
- Crabcake
- Jousting
- Lacrosse
- Navalacademy
- Oldline
- Oriole
- Whiteoak
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.
- Annapolis — Capital of Maryland, home to the U.S. Naval Academy
- Baltimore — Maryland's largest city, on the Chesapeake Bay
- Blackeyedsusan — Maryland's state flower, a yellow petaled bloom with a dark center
- Chesapeake — Large bay bordering the coasts of Virginia and Maryland
- Crab — Sideways-walking shellfish with claws
- Crabcake — Maryland specialty made from lump meat, breadcrumbs, and seasoning
- Jousting — Maryland's official individual sport, a medieval horseback contest
- Lacrosse — Game with netted sticks
- Navalacademy — U.S. military college for officers, located in Annapolis
- Oldline — Nickname for Maryland, from a Revolutionary War regiment's reputation
- Oriole — Orange-and-black songbird
- Whiteoak — Maryland's official state tree, a long-lived hardwood species
A puzzle made from it
- ANNAPOLIS
- BALTIMORE
- BLACKEYEDSUSAN
- CHESAPEAKE
- CRAB
- JOUSTING
- LACROSSE
- NAVALACADEMY
- OLDLINE
- ORIOLE
- WHITEOAK
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.
Turn it into a book
Puzzle Press makes the whole paperback for Amazon KDP — word search or criss-cross fill-in, this theme or several mixed, graded easy to hard if you like, solutions at the back, margins and page count to KDP's rules — then the cover. Free to use; free books have unmarked pages and a cover marked PREVIEW, and $19 once removes that.
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All free the same way. The theme picker is checkboxes — tick more than one and the generator draws from the combined list.
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