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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 50,251 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
APOLOGYTOURSat Dec 3, 2022Guilt trip?Kate Hawkins
BECALMSSat Mar 6, 2004Stops the progress ofEd Early
CARDSHARPSSun Dec 11, 2011Bottom dealers, perhapsTimothy Polin
CARSONDALYSun May 12, 2024Original host of MTV's "Total Request Live"Avery Gee Katz
CHEAPTRICKTue Apr 30, 2019*Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band with the hits "The Flame" and "I Want You to Want Me"Erik Agard
DIESELFUELSun Jan 15, 2017Truck driver?Joel Fagliano
DUGONGSThu Sep 2, 1999Manatee cousinsJoe DiPietro
FUELSSPECULATIONSun Mar 24, 2024Oil futures?John Kugelman
GETTHEWRONGIDEASat Apr 16, 2016MisunderstandAndrew Zhou
GIVINGUPThu Oct 5, 2006QuittingJoe DiPietro
GRANDINQUISITORFri Jul 23, 2010Christ's visitor in a tale from "The Brothers Karamazov"John Farmer
HASACTue Jul 12, 2016Is ready for the summer weather, for shortSamuel A. Donaldson
HUMMUSSun Apr 6, 2025Pita dip made from chickpeas and tahiniKareem Ayas
IDBADGEThu Feb 18, 2016One might get you inBruce Haight
IONSTORMSSat Oct 25, 2014Sci-fi disturbancesPatrick Blindauer
ITSNOTPLUGGEDINWed Jun 20, 2001Famous last wordsJay Sullivan
KINGJOHNMon Jun 15, 2015He sealed the 19-AcrossMike Buckley
LAPDANCESSat Sep 18, 2010Bachelor party entertainmentNatan Last, Brown University '12
LASSOERSat Nov 8, 2014One pulling a calf, sayBarry C. Silk
LEANNASun Dec 15, 2024Actress Creel of "Saved by the Bell"David Kwong
MANDARINSSat Nov 7, 1998Powerful bureaucratsRaymond Hamel
MARCELLUSSat Jan 2, 2016Roman consul who captured Syracuse in A.D. 211David Phillips
NONSELFWed Apr 20, 2016Material that is foreign to the bodyTom McCoy
ORDOCSSun Jul 20, 2025Sawbones, in briefMichael Schlossberg
PETERINGOUTSat Jan 28, 1995WaningRandolph Ross
RIFENESSSat Dec 15, 2001Opposite of scarcityFrank A. Longo
ROCKABYEBABYMon Aug 14, 1995Popular lullabyBen Wheelock
ROSETTASTONEFri Jan 11, 2013Key discovery of 1799Ian Livengood
RUNAWAYJURYMon Oct 21, 2013John Cusack thriller based on a Grisham novelGary Cee
SAMEAGEFri Feb 20, 2015Like George W. Bush vis-à-vis Sylvester StalloneDavid Woolf
SHAMMARRIAGESFri Jun 14, 2019Actors' unions?Caitlin Reid
SMOKEDEELMon Jan 12, 2009Russian fish delicacyLynn Lempel
SSRISun Apr 13, 2025Antidepressant type, in briefJohn Kugelman
SUBVERTSMon Nov 22, 2004UnderminesGregory Paul
USEOTHERDOORTue Apr 17, 2012[See note]Milo Beckman
WHITEGAZEFri Sep 23, 2022Ethnocentric lens critiqued by Toni MorrisonErik Agard
WILLBEThu Oct 12, 2023Words repeated in the title of a Doris Day hitJohn Nagamichi Cho
WINEBARSWed Jul 17, 2002Sipping sitesPeter Gordon
YIELDERSTue Aug 31, 2004Polite drivers, at mergesNancy Kavanaugh
YOUSEThu Feb 13, 1997Provincial pronounF. Longo
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