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Random unique answer words

40 answers which have never been reused

This page is just for fun. It's a random collection of rare crossword answers; so rare that each appears only in a single Modern Era puzzle. Bogus entries (thematic words that make sense only in that crossword) are excluded.

There are 50,695 unique Modern Era answer words in the database.

Click any word to see it in the context of its puzzle. Words in this color did appear in pre-Shortz crosswords.

WordDateClueAuthor
APPLAUDSFri Jun 27, 2014Celebrates wordlesslyPeter A. Collins
BASHERSSun Mar 31, 1996Severe criticsJ. Savage
BIRTHPLACEFri May 26, 1995OriginRandolph Ross
BLUEWHALESFri Mar 17, 2023Ones calling across the ocean?Carter Cobb
BODHITREEThu Jan 9, 2025Notable site of enlightenmentDavid P. Williams
BODYMASSINDEXTue Apr 14, 2020Calculation using height and weightJoe Hansen
CAMERATRIPODSat May 17, 2014Stand for a photoBrad Wilber
CHURCHMOUSEFri Mar 18, 1994Symbol of povertyMark Diehl
COACTSSun Jan 29, 2006Works togetherRich Norris
COUGHEDUPThu Apr 6, 2000Paid reluctantlyManny Nosowsky
DOWNSIZEDTue Dec 6, 2005Smaller now, in corporate-speakNancy Salomon
EMPHASISMINEFri Feb 9, 2018[Can you believe they wrote this?!]Brendan Emmett Quigley
ENARRIERESat May 7, 1994Backward: Fr.Bryant White
FORBETTERORFORWORSESun Jun 23, 2013Comic strip about the Patterson familyPatrick Berry
FUNNYFARMThu Feb 26, 2015Crazy place?Caleb Emmons
GLOWWORMSTue May 24, 2016Luminescent larvaeJonathan Gersch
HOTMIKESTue Oct 2, 2012Feedback producersEthan Cooper
HUMONGOUSFri Oct 29, 2021GinormousAimee Lucido
IDISFri Feb 4, 1994African tyrant and namesakesJoe Clonick
IMMATERIALSat Dec 4, 2010Neither here nor thereDoug Peterson
JACKSONKENTUCKYMon Feb 17, 199741339R. Hughes
KEVINJONASSun Mar 1, 2026Eldest of a trio of musical brothersMatt Proulx and Jeffrey Martinovic
KRAMDENSSun Nov 11, 2018Ralph and Alice, on old TVEric Berlin
LETTRESWed Jul 27, 1994Belles -_____Nancy Joline
LONGEVITYTue Dec 29, 2020What the biblical Methuselah is famous forMatthew Trout
LOOKINGUPFri Jun 25, 2021Showing promiseScott Earl
MELISSAMCCARTHYFri Dec 9, 2016Player of Molly on "Mike & Molly"David Phillips
MELTEDCHEESETue Jun 29, 2004Fondue dipJim Hyres
MONTELLThu Sep 19, 2013R&B singer JordanMichael Blake
MORDREDSat Aug 20, 2022King Arthur's slayerHemant Mehta
NASISat Jul 11, 1998Nose: PrefixFran and Lou Sabin
NEWCOLOSSUSMon Oct 28, 1996Poem inscribed on 17-Across, with "The"R. Norris
OLDGOATSFri Jul 25, 2014GeezersPeter A. Collins
REMITTEDSat Dec 13, 1997Eased upRichard Silvestri
RIPLEYSBELIEVEITORNOTSun May 22, 2011Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___Bob Klahn
TETRAHEDRONTue Oct 27, 2009Solid with four triangular facesChuck Deodene
THORNIERMon Apr 30, 2001Less solvablePeter Gordon
VIABLEMon Jan 2, 2006Practical, as a planLinda Schechet Tucker
WRITTENINSat Oct 5, 2019Added to the ballot, sayTrenton Charlson
YELLINGATTue Sep 15, 2020Berating at high volumeAmanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau
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