This page is just for fun. It's a random collection of rare crossword answers; so rare that each appears only in a single Shortz Era puzzle.
Not all these words make sense. Some of them are unique because they're part of some wacky theme. Some are errors that don't fit the standard Across Lite format. There are 52,467 unique Shortz 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALOSER | Sun 3/23/1997 | The Beatles' "I'm ___" | Bryant White |
| ARMATA | Sat 4/15/2000 | ___ di Mare (fashion label) | Raymond Hamel |
| AUNTBEE | Thu 1/5/2012 | Resident of Mayberry | Dan Schmiedeler |
| BATTEAU | Fri 9/4/2009 | Small river craft: Var. | Joe Krozel |
| BENGHAZI | Fri 6/26/2009 | Libya's second-largest city | Lynn Lempel |
| BICKERERS | Sat 8/5/1995 | Squabblers | Frank A. Longo |
| DETRITAL | Mon 4/10/1995 | Of waste | Sidney L. Robbins |
| DIVS | Sat 3/11/2000 | Depts. in depts. | Randolph Ross |
| EXPIATION | Sat 9/6/1997 | Atonement | Rich Norris |
| FIRSTFAMILIES | Sun 4/11/1999 | The Clintons, the Bushes, etc. | Matt Gaffney |
| FLUO | Sat 9/21/1996 | Chemical prefix | R. H. Burns |
| FORENOON | Sun 10/10/2004 | Morning | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| GROCERYSTORE | Sun 1/1/2017 | Farmer's market alternative | Matthew Sewell |
| HOOKEDARUGORTWO | Thu 4/5/2001 | Stole from a crafts class? | Cathy Millhauser |
| HOTCORNER | Thu 3/7/2013 | Third base, in baseball lingo ... or a hint for answering eight other clues in this puzzle | Jim Page |
| HOWNOVEL | Fri 3/10/2006 | "Isn't that unusual!" | Kevin McCann |
| ICESAWS | Mon 4/17/2017 | Arctic fishing tools | Peter Gordon |
| IVEMOVEDON | Sat 10/8/2005 | "We're not getting back together" | Byron Walden |
| JOLLYGOODFELLER | Thu 5/9/2002 | Chap who's a skilled lumberjack? | Cathy Millhauser |
| LAPDESK | Sat 8/17/2013 | Clipboard's relative | Ed Sessa |
| LIFTTHEVEIL | Wed 5/1/2002 | Make a disclosure | Steve Jones |
| LOVEBITE | Sat 7/26/2014 | Mark of affection | Julian Lim |
| MAKELIKEA | Wed 3/19/2014 | With 63- and 65-Across, go away as a soda jerk might? | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| MAKIMONO | Sun 11/23/1997 | Japanese hand scroll | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague |
| ONRADAR | Sat 5/16/2015 | Being tracked, in a way | Byron Walden |
| PADDLEWHEEL | Mon 8/10/2015 | *Riverboat propeller | C. W. Stewart |
| PLAYINGCARD | Wed 8/20/2008 | See 55-Down | Allan E. Parrish |
| PODRACING | Wed 8/24/2016 | Activity for Anakin Skywalker | Matthew Sewell |
| RAISEDTHEROOF | Wed 3/23/1994 | Performed a Herculean feat #4 | Cathy Millhauser |
| RISKYBZZZNESS | Sun 2/1/2004 | Bee's favorite movie of 1983? | Roy Leban |
| SIDENOTE | Wed 4/29/2015 | Incidental remark | Daniel Landman |
| SIGNATURE | Sun 5/11/1997 | Form of ID | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| SINKERS | Thu 12/28/2000 | Some pitches | Manny Nosowsky |
| SLIVERMINE | Sun 8/24/2014 | Narrow shaft in a mountain? | Patrick Berry |
| SOURNOTE | Sun 4/15/2012 | Unpleasant thing to hit | Kevin G. Der |
| THREEMASTER | Sat 9/24/1994 | Certain sailing vessel | Manny Nosowsky |
| UMOKAY | Wed 4/15/2015 | "So I guess that's a thing now" | Joel Fagliano |
| WELLSPOKEN | Fri 7/14/2000 | Articulate | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| WOBEGON | Sat 10/28/2006 | Lake in Mist County, Minn. | David Quarfoot |
| WORMED | Sun 6/4/2017 | Wriggled | Tom McCoy |