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 50,894 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
ALTOON	Sun Sep 19, 2021	Three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the New York Jets Ring of Honor	Peter Gordon
ANDNOT	Sun May 16, 2010	Excepting	Matt Ginsberg
ANTIQUESHOP	Sat Mar 17, 2007	An old secretary might sit in one	John Farmer
BATTLEOFTHESEXES	Fri Jun 10, 2016	Classic conflict	David Steinberg
BESTSELLERLIST	Thu Mar 24, 1994	Readers' perusal	A.J. Santora
CANDYCOAT	Sat Jul 14, 2018	Make more palatable	Kameron Austin Collins
CHARLIEHUSTLE	Tue Aug 26, 2008	Rose	Nancy Salomon
CUTONESLOSSES	Fri Apr 16, 1999	Bailed out, in a manner of speaking	John Wolting
DANDLES	Fri Apr 13, 2007	Moves gently up and down	Patrick Berry
DASHINGLY	Thu Jan 20, 1994	"Gotta run," said Tom _____	Lois Sidway
DEVOUT	Thu Dec 25, 1997	Pious	A. J. Santora
DUCA	Sun Nov 24, 2019	Nobleman above un conte	Frank Longo
DUCKIN	Mon Jun 3, 2024	Make a quick visit, as to a shop	Alana Platt
ENERGIZES	Sat Jun 11, 1994	Peps up	Daniel R. Stark
EXITBANQUO	Fri Apr 26, 1996	"Macbeth" stage direction	W. Johnson
EZPASSLANE	Fri Apr 6, 2018	Quick way through a toll plaza	David Steinberg
FEYNMAN	Wed Nov 20, 2013	1965 Physics Nobelist Richard	Peter A. Collins
FIDELIS	Wed May 22, 2019	"Semper ___" (Marine Corps motto)	Alex Eaton-Salners
FUNSPONGE	Sat Jul 28, 2018	One who sucks the joy out of the room	Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class
GEMOFTHEOCEAN	Mon Jun 18, 2007	Columbia, in an old patriotic song	Randall J. Hartman
HIDINGS	Sun Aug 3, 1997	Stashes	Peter Gordon
INVOGUE	Mon Sep 6, 2021	Fashionable ... or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues	Joshua Rosenblatt
LEROUGEETLENOIR	Tue Dec 6, 1994	1954 Gerard Philipe film	Wayne Robert Williams
MANTISES	Sun Dec 27, 1998	Only insects that can turn their heads to look behind them	Rich Norris
MELBATOAST	Fri Oct 25, 2002	It's named after an opera star	Brendan Emmett Quigley
MEWLING	Thu Dec 16, 2021	Sound from a crib	Trenton Charlson
OVERNICE	Fri Feb 24, 2012	Too accommodating for one's own good	Patrick Berry
PENSIONFUNDS	Sat Dec 28, 2024	Sources of retirement income	Sam Berriman
PRESTIRS	Fri Jan 17, 1997	Mixes before cooking	B. Klahn
PROGRESSBAR	Thu Oct 31, 2024	Graphic showing the status of a download, say	Sarah Sinclair and Paolo Pasco
REPEATEDLY	Sat Nov 1, 2014	56 x 42	Trip Payne
SEWARDS	Sun Aug 27, 1995	_____ Folly	Martin Schneider
SEXMANUALS	Fri May 8, 2026	Books that go into intimate detail?	Rafael Musa and Geoffrey Schorkopf
SHOEREPAIR	Thu Jul 9, 2009	HOSE?	Ashish Vengsarkar
SIXSTORY	Thu Jan 19, 2012	Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan	Derek Bowman and Sarah Keller
STATESECRET	Sat Mar 29, 2014	Target of a spy	Barry C. Silk
TENNISLESSON	Fri Apr 21, 2006	Court session	Manny Nosowsky
TENTPOLING	Sat Sep 4, 2021	TV lingo for using established hits to prop up weaker shows	Byron Walden
THEONERING	Sun Apr 27, 2025		Jacob Reed
UNSEEMLY	Tue Mar 16, 2004	Socially improper	Ron Sweet