Michigan word search word list

15 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell.

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Runs in your browser — nothing you type leaves your computer. No sign-up. $19 once removes the PREVIEW cover mark; 30-day refund, no questions.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws all 15 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

Apple
Blossom
Dearborn
Detroit
Ford
Greatlakes
Lansing
Lions
Mackinac
Motown
Pine
Redwings
Robin
Tigers
Wolverine

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.

Apple — Fruit that keeps the doctor away
Blossom — Flowers on a fruit tree
Dearborn — Michigan city that is home to Ford's world headquarters
Detroit — Michigan's largest city, historic center of the auto industry
Ford — Automaker founded by Henry, headquartered near Detroit
Greatlakes — Freshwater seas that give this state one of its nicknames
Lansing — Michigan's capital city
Lions — Detroit's NFL football team
Mackinac — Straits and island linking Michigan's two peninsulas
Motown — Detroit record label that shaped American soul and pop music
Pine — Evergreen with needles
Redwings — Detroit's NHL hockey team
Robin — Migratory red-breasted songbird, a common state symbol
Tigers — Detroit's Major League Baseball team
Wolverine — Fierce weasel-family animal that gives this state one of its nicknames

A puzzle made from it

APPLE
BLOSSOM
DEARBORN
DETROIT
FORD
GREATLAKES
LANSING
LIONS
MACKINAC
MOTOWN
PINE
REDWINGS
ROBIN
TIGERS
WOLVERINE

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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More word lists

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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