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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 50,746 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
ASSESSMENTSat Sep 24, 1994RatingManny Nosowsky
BENITOJUAREZMon Nov 17, 200339-Across in Mexico CitySarah Keller
BERTHEDSun Apr 4, 1999Tied up at the marinaRichard Silvestri
BETTEROFFSun Sep 26, 1999Having the upper handRandolph Ross
BLOCKINGSun Feb 7, 2010"He's looking for an opening, but she's doing a tremendous job of ___!"Patrick Berry
CHOLLASWed May 31, 1995Mojave plantsJonathan Schmatzbach
DANIELDEFOEFri Apr 9, 1999"Moll Flanders" authorManny Nosowsky
DEMOLESSONFri Oct 6, 2023Part of a teacher's job interviewZhouqin Burnikel and Tom Pepper
DENSITIESSun Dec 31, 2006Rock statsElizabeth C. Gorski
DIRECTORATESat Aug 7, 1999Controlling bodyTrip Payne
EIGHTHOURDAYWed Feb 6, 2002Common shiftJoe DiPietro
ESURIENTSat Sep 28, 2002GreedyRaymond Hamel
FILMDIRECTORMon Aug 7, 2017Speaker of the last words of 20-, 28- and 44-AcrossKevin Christian
GANGOFFOURThu Aug 17, 2017Faction in China's Cultural Revolution ... or a hint to each set of circled lettersPeter A. Collins
GREENSTAMPSSun Apr 14, 1996Tradables introduced in 1896Henry Hook
GULAGSSun Jun 5, 1994Prison campsDean Niles
HIRESACARWed Jun 20, 2018Goes by livery taxiJeffrey Wechsler
JACKSONPOLLOCKWed Nov 1, 1995Abstract Expressionism pioneerD. J. DeChristopher
LAPIDARYFri Aug 5, 1994StonecutterDaniel R. Stark
LEAVESONSun Sep 10, 2017Strands, as a base runnerBrendan Emmett Quigley
LOGCABINSSun Feb 15, 2015Little houses on the prairieEllen Leuschner and Jeff Chen
MEWLINGThu Dec 16, 2021Sound from a cribTrenton Charlson
MISEREREFri Jul 24, 1998The 51st PsalmManny Nosowsky
NATURELSun Feb 22, 2004Au ___Nancy Nicholson Joline
NESISat May 10, 199740's theater director JamesIsabel Walcott
NOOGIESFri Aug 8, 2003Knuckle-headed gestures of affection?Myles Callum
NOTORIOUSRBGSat Apr 13, 2019Supreme Court nickname, with "the"Debbie Ellerin
OLIVEGROVESat Nov 22, 2025Outdoor setting for Plato's AcademyBlake Slonecker
PEEWEEERWINThu Dec 26, 2002Jazz trumpeter of the Big Band eraCathy Millhauser
POLEDANCEDFri Jan 1, 2021Did a hook spin or knee swingMilo Beckman
POLITICALDNAFri Feb 10, 2012Party makeup?Barry C. Silk and Brad Wilber
RETAILORSun Dec 5, 1993Make a fitting changeManny Nosowsky
SEGWAYSMon May 20, 2019Motorized two-wheelersGary Cee
SPRAYONTANSSat Feb 5, 2022Bronze producersKameron Austin Collins
STARTSONThu Aug 25, 2022BeginsOlivia Mitra Framke and Andrea Carla Michaels
TALKSDIRTYSun May 26, 2013Has an adult conversation?Joon Pahk and Jeremy Horwitz
THESUNSHINEBOYSFri Jan 19, 19961975 film co-starring 13-AcrossC. Gersch
THUNDERCLAPTue Oct 17, 2023Crack after a boltDominic Grillo
TINIESSat Oct 1, 2016Edward Gorey's "The Gashlycrumb ___"David Woolf
WITTIERSat Nov 16, 1996More scintillatingJ. Page
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