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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 50,430 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
ABSTRACTIONISTSFri Jan 5, 1996Pollock and Kline, e.g.R. Ross
ACCESSEDSat Jul 5, 1997Got toRich Norris
ACQUIRELANDSun Jun 13, 2010Buy real estateFrancis Heaney
ANDWORSESun Dec 15, 1996Even more distressingR. Ross
ATTENDANCESHEETFri Mar 17, 2017Skipping record?Jacob Stulberg
BATTINGORDERSun Jul 24, 2011Wool or cotton purchase request?Kurt Mueller
BITEVALVEMon May 14, 2018End of a drinking hoseAndrea Carla Michaels
BLACKEYEDPEASSun Apr 7, 2024Group with the 2009 hit "I Gotta Feeling"Tracy Gray
BLANKCARTRIDGESMon May 19, 2008Contents of guns used in training exercisesMike Nothnagel
BYNERTue Feb 25, 1997Sketch comic JohnGregory E. Paul
CADAVERSun Nov 1, 1998BodyRobert Malinow
CITSSat Jun 9, 2018Residents: Abbr.Roland Huget
CRANIOSat Mar 9, 1996Head start?R. Norris
DEROGATESun Mar 13, 1994BelittleNancy Nicholson Joline
DOYOUHEARMEFri Dec 7, 2018"Are we clear?"Sam Trabucco
FAIRLADYSun Nov 20, 2016Damsel, to a knightEd Sessa
GIFFORDSun Nov 12, 2017Philbin's onetime morning co-hostEd Sessa
HALFPENNYSun Jun 20, 2010British coin discontinued in 1984Todd Gross and Ashish Vengsarkar
HENRISSat Dec 17, 1994Toulouse-Lautrec and othersChuck Deodene
IAMTHEYANKEEDOODLEBOYSun Jul 2, 1995More words by 7-DownAlex K. Justin
JACKKEMPSat May 6, 1995Bush HUD SecretaryRandolph Ross
KENTONSat Dec 7, 2002"Artistry in Rhythm" composerRich Norris
LOOKSEESFri Feb 5, 2010Quick surveysJoe Krozel
MISTRIALSTue Jan 25, 1994Results of some errorsJoel Davajan
MOLDAVIAFri Apr 17, 1998Region of eastern EuropeMatt Gaffney
MOUNTSHASTASat Jan 15, 2022Locale 60 miles south of the California/Oregon borderSam Ezersky
MRTCEREALSat Oct 19, 2019Onetime Quaker offering based on a 1980s TV iconByron Walden
NORTHAMPTONMATue Jun 19, 2007Home of Smith CollegeJohn Underwood
OPERABUFFSFri Dec 17, 1999Met fansManny Nosowsky
POLEMICALMon Jul 19, 2010Tending to cause an argumentDavid Blake
RABBITSFOOTMon May 23, 2011Common key chain adornmentSteve Salitan
REARBUMPERSun Sep 30, 2012Commuter on a crowded bus, e.g.?Elayne Cantor and Victor Fleming
RUCKMon Jul 3, 1995WrinkleFred Piscop
SALTMARSHSun Dec 2, 2018Brackish coastal habitatPaul Coulter
SAMNUNNThu Jun 2, 2011Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1987-95Brendan Emmett Quigley
SNITCHONThu Jun 28, 2012Betray, in a wayElizabeth C. Gorski
SPARRERThu Oct 5, 1995Boxer at practiceChristopher Page
SUESOVERTue Jan 5, 2021Author Grafton has arrived for dinnerAmy Schecter and Christina Iverson
TRADITIONThu Oct 6, 2022How things have always been doneSimeon Seigel
WONDERSat May 17, 2008Want to knowMike Nothnagel
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