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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 50,371 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
ABCBSun Apr 28, 2019Rhyme scheme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"Brendan Emmett Quigley
BIKERCHICKSat Jul 5, 2014Woman in a leather jacket, maybeDavid Steinberg
BYLANDThu Apr 22, 2004One of Paul Revere's message optionsDaniel C. Bryant
CAMPERVANWed Jul 15, 2020Mobile home?Lee Higbie and Jeff Chen
CATHAIRSSat Jan 30, 2010Allergy sourceMark Diehl
CHAFINGMon Jul 17, 2017Rubbing the wrong way?Tom McCoy
CONSPIRACYFri Nov 28, 1997See 19-AcrossEd Pegg Jr.
DANCELESSONSat Jun 8, 2019Step-by-step instructions?Andrew J. Ries
DORISLEEMon Jul 25, 1994Neoprimitive American artistAlbert J. Klaus
EDISONNJThu Oct 8, 199808818Alan Arbesfeld
FLUTESOLOFri Feb 9, 2024Wind up alone?Christina Iverson
HEATHLEDGERMon Aug 17, 20092008Mike Buckley
HELLTOTHENOFri Jun 30, 2023"As frickin' if!"Carly Schuna
ILSESFri Aug 30, 1996Pianist Von Alpenheim et al.A. J. Santora
INTHEVAULTTue Jul 20, 2021Stored deeply and securelySam Buchbinder
KINOThu Sep 21, 1995Movie theater, in EuropeChuck Deodene
LATENTPERIODThu Oct 12, 2006Interval between stimulation and responseDave Tuller
LAZINESSWed Jul 25, 2001Start of a quoteRichard Hughes
LOGINNAMESat Jun 9, 2012Access providerDavid Quarfoot
LUPINESFri May 29, 1998BluebonnetsFred Piscop
MINIATUREPOODLEFri May 21, 1999Lap dog, maybeMartin Ashwood-Smith
MOLECULESSun Jan 28, 2024What's the matter?Nathan Hasegawa
MORPHINEMon Sep 19, 2005Narcotic pain relieverTimothy Powell
MORTASat Sep 3, 1994One of the Roman FatesRaymond Hamel
ONEFORMEFri Apr 10, 2020Self-serving comment?Byron Walden
ONESEATERSFri Sep 18, 2020Race cars, typicallyAnne and Daniel Larsen
PREDATORYThu Feb 20, 2014RapaciousZhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo
REPRESENTATIVEWed Jul 17, 2019Politician that the voters [circled letters] to CongressAda Nicolle
ROADTOPERDITIONMon Jun 14, 20102002 Tom Hanks/Paul Newman filmMark Feldman
SHAHOFIRANSun May 27, 2012Noted exile of 1979Byron Walden
SHOTSUBPARWed Jan 9, 2013Did or didn't play a good round of golf?David Ben-Merre
SLAMPOETRYFri Apr 29, 2016Grist for a war of words?Andrew Kingsley
SNAZZIESTSun Dec 14, 2003Maximally chi-chiElizabeth C. Gorski
SNORTERSFri Oct 18, 1996Derisive onesM. Gaffney
TASTETHISSat Jul 13, 2024Sample offerEli Cotham
TIRERSThu Jun 29, 1995Ones who are getting wearyMatt Gaffney
TURINGTESTSThu Sep 7, 2023Assessments I would pass with flying colors — if I had anything to prove, which I don't, since I'm humanRyan Patrick Smith
UPINTHESKYSat Feb 25, 2006OverheadHenry Hook
VEGANDIETSun Aug 21, 2016Regimen adopted by Bill Clinton in 2010Kathy Matheson and Jeff Chen
WEBFOOTFri Nov 7, 2014Penguin partPatrick Berry
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