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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 50,472 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.
| Word | Date | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLBROKENUP | Sun Jun 4, 2000 | Crushed | Martin Schneider |
| ANGERER | Sun May 10, 2015 | Internet troll, intentionally | Jacob Stulberg |
| ATWEEN | Sat Oct 14, 2000 | In the middle of, in dialect | Rich Norris |
| BACKFIRE | Thu Sep 20, 2012 | Produce an undesired effect | John R. Conrad |
| BALTIMOREHARBOR | Sun Jul 6, 2014 | Where 24-Across was inspired to write 65-Across | Daniel C. Bryant |
| CORNIEST | Thu Oct 17, 2019 | Like the worst dad joke | Randolph Ross |
| DANCEMOM | Sat Sep 27, 2025 | Parent whose child is taking steps to improve? | Adrian Johnson and Christina Iverson |
| DIRTBIKER | Sun Jul 31, 2011 | Off-road specialist | Pamela Klawitter |
| ELBOWING | Fri Apr 5, 1996 | Hockey taboo | J. Page |
| ENTRANCEFEES | Fri May 16, 2014 | Charges at the door | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| ERSKINECALDWELL | Mon Dec 11, 2000 | Author, 1903-87 | Myles Callum |
| FIDDLERCRAB | Thu Feb 29, 2024 |  | Esha Datta |
| FLATTANDSCRUGGS | Wed Oct 16, 1996 | COUNTRYMEN | B. Gordon |
| GUTPUNCH | Thu May 23, 2019 | Visceral shock | Alex Vratsanos |
| INSATIATE | Fri Jun 2, 2017 | Constantly wanting more | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| LOVELIFE | Wed Nov 7, 2007 | Romantic goings-on | Richard Chisholm |
| MEANDERED | Mon Dec 12, 1994 | Rambled | Joy L. Wouk |
| MILIEUS | Sat Jul 9, 2005 | Spheres | Patrick Berry |
| MINEMINEMINE | Tue Mar 30, 2021 | Greedy person's cry | Alex Rosen and Brad Wilber |
| MOUSIER | Wed Aug 7, 2024 | More timid | Meghan Morris |
| NEGOTIATED | Sat Feb 15, 2014 | Managed to get through | Julian Lim |
| NIPSINTHEBUD | Tue Oct 4, 2011 | Squelches early | Dan Feyer |
| ONESHOTDEALS | Sun Dec 18, 2022 | Some limited-time offers | Ryan McCarty |
| ONTHEREBOUND | Fri Apr 9, 2021 | Newly single and ready to mingle | Jamey Smith |
| PARADERS | Fri Jan 25, 2019 | Figures by a float | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PLETHORAS | Sun Nov 6, 2011 | Huge amounts | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| RECYCLING | Fri Mar 1, 1996 | Environmentalist's activity | Charles E. Gersch |
| ROOTERS | Fri Oct 26, 2007 | Cheering section | David Quarfoot |
| SANTORINI | Sun Nov 27, 2016 | Island whose volcanic eruption is rumored to have destroyed Atlantis | Matt Ginsberg |
| SCAVENGER | Thu Jul 6, 1995 | Kind of hunt | David J. Kahn |
| SCRAPEDBY | Fri May 21, 2010 | Made ends meet somehow | Patrick Berry |
| SEATLESS | Sat Jan 24, 1998 | Like a straphanger | Randolph Ross |
| SHARPEDGE | Mon Dec 22, 2014 | What a whetstone gives a knife | Lynn Lempel |
| SILICANE | Sat Oct 15, 1994 | Colorless, flammable gas | Randolph Ross |
| STRATAS | Sun Jun 5, 1994 | Soprano Teresa | Dean Niles |
| TRIAMORY | Wed Jul 6, 2016 | Relationship with two other lovers, both of whom consent | David Woolf |
| TVDETECTIVE | Mon Aug 16, 2010 | What each of the characters named at the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across is | Andrea Carla Michaels and Jennifer Nutt |
| TYPEFACES | Fri May 29, 2009 | Producers of some bold words | Randolph Ross |
| WEDDINGPLANNER | Tue Apr 12, 2022 | Union job? | Dan Schoenholz |
| WINDOWCOVERINGS | Sun Feb 5, 2006 | 17-9-19-10-2-12-22-7 | Eric Berlin |