This page is just for fun. It's a random collection of rare crossword answers; so rare that each appears only in a single Shortz-era puzzle.
Not all these words make sense. Some of them are unique because they're part of some wacky theme. Some are errors that don't fit the standard Across Lite format. There are 48,778 unique Shortz-era answer words in the database.
Click any word to see it in the context of its puzzle. Click here to see a new list. Words in this color did appear in pre-Shortz crosswords.
| Word | Date | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBEDWIT | Sun 6/3/2007 | Cutting humor | Kelsey Blakley |
| BASSHORN | Thu 8/18/2011 | Tuba | Kevan Choset |
| BYTWO | Sun 10/31/2004 | How one must win in volleyball | Patrick Merrell |
| CADGERS | Sun 9/15/1996 | Freeloaders | A. K. Justin |
| CRYONIC | Sun 9/26/2004 | About freezing | Joe DiPietro |
| CURTS | Sun 11/15/1998 | Baseball's Flood and others | Robert H. Wolfe |
| DALEYS | Sat 1/4/1997 | Chicago political family | M. W. Perry |
| DILATORS | Sun 12/17/2006 | Eye openers? | Joe DiPietro |
| DONUTSHAPES | Sun 4/6/2003 | Tori Spelling | Joe DiPietro |
| DORF | Fri 1/12/2007 | Village, in Würzburg | Sherry O. Blackard |
| EBONYEYES | Sat 12/8/2007 | 1961 top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers | Barry C. Silk |
| ELASTICITY | Sun 9/1/2013 | Stretchiness | John Farmer |
| ELOCUTE | Sun 3/30/2008 | Declaim | Paula Gamache |
| ENTRANCERAMPAGE | Sun 4/6/1997 | Reckless arrival? | Rich Norris |
| EXPLODEVIOLENTLY | Sun 11/13/1994 | Erupt? | Frank A. Longo |
| FLOATINGCAPITAL | Fri 3/20/1998 | Uncommitted money | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GREATMINDSTHINKAL | Sun 6/12/2005 | 2000 Democratic campaign slogan? | Joe Bower |
| IMARRIEDANANGEL | Fri 7/20/2012 | "Spring Is Here" musical | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| INTERNETAD | Mon 6/17/2013 | Purchase from Google | Johanna Fenimore and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| JACKBENIMBLE | Mon 11/15/2004 | Start of a nursery rhyme | Alison Donald |
| JUMBOCD | Sat 5/19/2007 | Institutional investment | Byron Walden |
| MARKCUBAN | Sat 10/27/2007 | Billionaire sports entrepreneur who heads HDNet | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MAROONED | Wed 4/26/1995 | Left high and dry | Wayne Robert Williams |
| MISTERSOFTEE | Fri 8/11/2006 | Brand whose logo is a cone-headed character | Patrick Merrell |
| NOWINCHSITUATION | Sun 3/28/2010 | Problem for a crane operator? | Ed Sessa |
| PARALLELPARKING | Mon 6/10/2013 | Tricky task in a driver's test | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PARASAILS | Sat 10/12/2013 | Chutes behind boats | John Farmer |
| REDSTORM | Fri 7/20/2001 | St. John's team | Jim Page |
| RINGSTRUE | Sat 11/13/1999 | Seems right | Jim Page |
| ROLEPLAYS | Thu 8/29/2013 | Uses sock puppets to talk to a therapist, say | Timothy Polin |
| SETSOFF | Thu 4/4/2013 | Triggers | Corey Rubin |
| SHORTERANDSWEET | Tue 3/8/2005 | Marathoner Frank with candy? | Deb Amlen |
| SMOKEANDMIRRORS | Sun 4/20/2008 | Artful deception | John Farmer |
| SPEAKSPEAK | Sun 4/3/1994 | See notepad | Ernie Furtado |
| SWANEERIVER | Fri 11/5/1999 | Foster home? | Mark Diehl |
| THESECRETOFMANAGING | Sun 3/11/2001 | Start of a quip | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TURNTHECORNER | Mon 5/14/2012 | Pass through a crisis safely | John Dunn |
| TWOFEET | Fri 12/20/1996 | Yard section | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| VOICEMAIL | Sat 5/28/1994 | Modern messages | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| WHOLEWHEATBRAIN | Wed 10/29/2003 | Genius at a bakery? | Manny Nosowsky |