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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 50,346 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
ACTITOUTFri Feb 28, 2003Do a charadeManny Nosowsky
ALLENIVERSONSun Sep 20, 2020Basketball star nicknamed "The Answer"Sam Trabucco
APESTSun Dec 2, 2012"Don't be ___"Steven E. Atwood
AWAKEDSun Dec 19, 2004Came out of sleep, old-styleFrances Hansen (1919-2004)
BEMOANEDSun Jun 28, 2015Didn't like, and said soJeremy Newton
BYDESIGNWed Aug 13, 2025IntentionallyJared Cappel
CDIMAGESun Dec 19, 2010Clone of an optical medium's contentsKevin G. Der
EUROPEANCAPITALSun Jun 9, 1996See 23-AcrossM. Gaffney
FACEBOOKBUTTONSMon Jul 13, 2015What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across areZhouqin Burnikel
FREEKITTENSMon Jan 14, 2008Good sign on a lawnRobert Dillman
HIGHPROTEINDIETThu Jan 18, 2024Atkins, for oneJon Michnovicz and Carl Michnovicz
HITTINGTHEWALLMon Sep 10, 2001Out of gasNancy Salomon and Karen Riekert
HOWAREYAFri Jan 24, 2014"'Sup?"Ian Livengood
INSERVICEDAYSThu Feb 13, 2020Times when teachers go to school but students don'tAmanda Chung and Karl Ni
IRONOXIDEMon Aug 7, 2006RustLynn Lempel
JUDOMATFri Aug 5, 2016You might be thrown on itBrendan Emmett Quigley
JUSTADROPFri Jul 12, 2013"Not much at all for me, please"Matt Ginsberg
KILLMENOWWed Aug 7, 2013*Sarcastic remark upon hearing bad newsErik Wennstrom
LEGACYSun Dec 21, 2003InheritanceFrances Hansen
LIGHTENFri Sep 8, 1995UpliftA.J. Santora
LUCSSun Nov 2, 1997N.B.A. center Longley and othersNancy Nicholson Joline
MANANASENORWed Dec 29, 2010Procrastinating words south of the borderPatrick Merrell
MCGARRETTSat Jun 4, 2005Lead role in "Hawaii Five-O"Byron Walden
ONTHECLOCKFri Sep 7, 2018Getting paid, sayJosh Knapp
OVERUSEDWed Feb 1, 1995TriteChet Currier
OVERWITHHELDSat Feb 10, 2001Due a refund, in a wayRich Norris
PLINKSSun May 16, 2010Xylophone soundsMatt Ginsberg
PONDSCUMSat Apr 8, 2023Dirty filmSid Sivakumar
POORDEARSun Sep 26, 2021"I'm so sorry for you!"Priyanka Sethy and Matthew Stock
RECOALSat Sep 10, 1994Take on more fuelRand H. Burns
REDEVELOPEDThu Jun 5, 2008Like land in urban renewalJames Sajdak
REMOLDSFri Jun 23, 1995Shapes againManny Nosowsky
ROOMIERSun Jun 12, 2011Less crampedC. W. Stewart
TAKESTHEREINSSat Nov 30, 2024Assumes controlOliver Goodridge and Juan Garavito
TAMERASun May 30, 2021Mowry who starred alongside her twin Tia in the '90s sitcom "Sister, Sister"Adam Wagner
THECLAWSCOMEOUTSat Nov 24, 2018"Things get ugly"David Steinberg
THRIVEDFri Mar 17, 2006ShinedJohn Farmer
TOUCHTYPESFri Apr 17, 2020Enters without looking, sayRobyn Weintraub
TURNEDTHEHEATONFri Apr 24, 2015Put under pressureJoe Krozel
UNHIREDFri Mar 2, 2001JoblessManny Nosowsky
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