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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 50,609 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
ADHOCCOMMITTEEThu Jun 12, 2025Temporarily established panelDaniel Bodily
AGRADESSun Mar 30, 2025Top marksSimeon Seigel
ASPIRATIONSun Mar 6, 2011HopeDavid Levinson Wilk
ASSENTERThu Aug 6, 1998Yes manFran and Lou Sabin
ASSYROSun Jun 16, 2013___-Babylonian (ancient Semitic language)Mel Rosen
BEADIERSat Oct 30, 1999Smaller and more glitteringRich Norris
BLOODHOUNDTue Feb 17, 2015*Relentless pursuerBruce Haight
BOEINGSat Jan 7, 2006Dreamliner developerJim Hyres
BQESun Jan 27, 2013Hwy. that ends near La GuardiaJeff Chen
CADETBLUESat Jul 5, 2025Uniform shadeTracy Bennett
CHOCOLATECHIPCOOKIEThu Oct 30, 2014Treat represented visually by this puzzle's answerDavid Woolf
CUKORTue Aug 25, 1998"My Fair Lady" director GeorgeRandy Sowell
DANCEHALLSat Jan 26, 2013Setting for the swing set?Raymond C. Young
DAVIDHOWed Sep 25, 2024AIDS researcher who was Time's 1996 Man of the YearPeter Gordon
DOWNEASTThu Nov 10, 2005MaineLee Glickstein and Craig Kasper
DROLLYSun Sep 10, 2000À la ThurberElizabeth C. Gorski
DUSKSSun Oct 24, 1999Times when headlights are turned onNancy Salomon
ELMOLINCOLNSun Sep 1, 2013First film TarzanJohn Farmer
ERISASun Jun 5, 19941974 pension provision: Abbr.Dean Niles
EXHORTINGTue Dec 5, 1995Giving a rah-rah talkRobert Katz
HIGHGEARThu Sep 12, 2002You may kick into itPeter Abide
HIRELINGSFri May 25, 2007FlunkiesMike Nothnagel
INHALINGSat Aug 12, 2023Scarfing downRachel Fabi and Christina Iverson
LEONPANETTAFri Feb 17, 20061990's White House chief of staffTrip Payne
MATTBIONDIThu Aug 8, 2019Winner of five swimming gold medals at the 1988 OlympicsTimothy Polin
MOSEISLEYWed Oct 26, 2022"Wretched hive of scum and villainy," per Obi-Wan KenobiSimeon Seigel
MOVABLEFEASTMon Jun 9, 2025Easter or Passover, but not ChristmasAimee Lucido
NECKLETSun Mar 1, 2009Stole, for exampleRobert W. Harris
OLLYSun Jun 10, 2012Nonsense word repeated before "oxen free"Xan Vongsathorn
POLYGAMYMon Feb 6, 1995Utah banned it in 1882Gregory E. Paul
PRETERNATURALSun Dec 11, 2011Extraordinary and unexplainableTimothy Polin
RIFLETHROUGHTue Jun 19, 2018Do a hurried search inPeter Gordon
SEAFERNSun Oct 23, 2005Branching marine growthDavid J. Kahn
SMOOTHOPERATORSTue Dec 15, 2015Don Juan typesDavid Levinson Wilk
SOLOPERFORMERFri Jul 17, 2020Person with no one to play withRich Proulx
STARTINMon Feb 6, 2012Get to work (on)Tom Pepper
THEDAYWILLCOMESun Dec 5, 1999Vision of the future in current events?Joe DiPietro
TIRELESSLYSat Oct 28, 2023Without getting beatRyan McCarty
TOBEYMAGUIRESun Nov 2, 2008Film star who played 115-AcrossElizabeth C. Gorski
TRAINMASTERSat Jan 5, 2019To whom a conductor reportsAndrew Zhou
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