South Dakota word search word list

11 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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The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws all 11 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

• Badlands
• Blackhills
• Cornpalace
• Crazyhorse
• Pasqueflower
• Pheasant
• Pierre
• Rushmore
• Siouxfalls
• Spruce
• Sturgis

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.

• Badlands — Eroded rock formations preserved in parkland in both South Dakota and North Dakota
• Blackhills — Ancient pine-covered range in western South Dakota, sacred to the Lakota people
• Cornpalace — Mitchell, South Dakota building whose exterior murals are redecorated yearly with crop art
• Crazyhorse — Massive in-progress mountain carving of a Lakota leader, near Mount Rushmore
• Pasqueflower — South Dakota's official spring bloom, a lavender-petaled bud that opens near Easter
• Pheasant — South Dakota's state bird, a colorful game bird introduced from Asia in the 1900s
• Pierre — South Dakota's capital city, one of the least populous state capitals in the country
• Rushmore — Iconic South Dakota mountainside carved with the faces of four U.S. presidents
• Siouxfalls — South Dakota's largest city, named for the cascades on its namesake river
• Spruce — Cone-bearing evergreen common in cold mountain regions, often used as a holiday tree
• Sturgis — South Dakota town famous for hosting a massive annual motorcycle rally each August

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.

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