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. Bogus entries (thematic words that make sense only in that crossword) are excluded.
There are 46,358 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHWAZ | Mon May 2, 1994 | Oil city of Iran | James L. Beatty |
| ALLENIVERSON | Sun Sep 20, 2020 | Basketball star nicknamed "The Answer" | Sam Trabucco |
| AMVETS | Sun Jul 12, 2015 | Lobbying org. formed in 1944 | Patrick Berry |
| BALDWINS | Sat Jan 28, 2006 | Some pianos | Dana Motley |
| CHEATSHEET | Sat Nov 3, 2012 | It may give you a final answer | Milo Beckman |
| CLANGER | Sat Sep 24, 2005 | Big goof | Byron Walden |
| COLLAPSED | Mon Apr 6, 2015 | Fell apart | Finn Vigeland |
| COMICBOOKCOVER | Sun Nov 2, 2008 | Where you might see 115-Across | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| COUNTDRACULA | Wed Oct 27, 2010 | See 20-, 28-, 35- and 43-Across | Jay Kaskel |
| DEMETRI | Wed Jun 10, 2020 | Comedian Martin | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| DRAWLOTS | Sat Dec 2, 2006 | Decide by chance | Bob Klahn |
| ECARTES | Fri Apr 2, 2010 | King-high games | Alan Olschwang |
| GAYLIT | Thu Dec 17, 2009 | Works stocked by a bookstore with a rainbow flag | Francis Heaney and Patrick Blindauer |
| HAWAIIANCROONER | Mon Dec 25, 2000 | HO | Adam G. Perl |
| HEURISTIC | Sat Oct 27, 2018 | Method of solving | Byron Walden |
| HIGHOFFICE | Mon Apr 20, 2020 | *The presidency, e.g. | Lynn Lempel |
| IMPLORED | Mon Dec 31, 2018 | Begged earnestly | Brian Thomas |
| INNAME | Wed Apr 20, 1994 | ___ only | Walter Webb |
| LEGBONE | Sun Mar 20, 2011 | Femur or tibia | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LISTEE | Sun Apr 30, 1995 | Name in a directory | Warren W. Reich |
| MANERO | Thu Nov 5, 2015 | Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" role | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| MASTERBREWER | Fri Feb 7, 2020 | Adolph Coors or Frederick Pabst | Mary Lou Guizzo and Erik Agard |
| NICOLA | Wed May 20, 2009 | San ___, Christmas figure in Italy | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| NIMBLEST | Fri Nov 28, 2003 | Least lumbering | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NONSTEROID | Wed May 4, 2016 | Like hormones synthesized from amino acids | Jacob Stulberg |
| NONTRUMP | Sun Apr 25, 1999 | Like three out of four suits | Joe DiPietro |
| QUESTLOVE | Sat Mar 12, 2016 | "Tonight Show" bandleader with a signature 'fro | Josh Knapp |
| SADFATE | Sat Feb 15, 1997 | Tragic end | J. Clonick |
| SANDARACS | Fri Oct 28, 1994 | Trees with dark, fragrant wood | Bryant White |
| SENIORDISCOUNT | Tue Dec 30, 2008 | Incentive aimed at golden agers | Doug Peterson |
| SIDH | Sat Oct 21, 1995 | Fairy mound of Irish folklore | Daniel R. Stark |
| SINISTRAL | Thu Feb 3, 2011 | Left-handed | Matt Ginsberg |
| SPYDOM | Wed Nov 18, 2009 | World of espionage | Paula Gamache |
| TABLEOFCONTENTS | Thu Apr 4, 1996 | What a busboy clears | M. Diehl |
| THECLASH | Sat Apr 18, 2015 | Their 1982 album "Combat Rock" went double-platinum | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| THEGRANITESTATE | Sun Aug 27, 2017 | New Hampshire | Jeff Chen |
| TRACEEELLISROSS | Sat Nov 17, 2018 | Player of the mother on "Black-ish" | Doug Peterson and Erik Agard |
| TURNTHECORNER | Mon May 14, 2012 | Pass through a crisis safely | John Dunn |
| WHILES | Sun Dec 26, 2004 | Spends pleasantly, with "away" | Hal Turner |
| WITHOUTSIN | Thu Nov 20, 2008 | End of the quote | Pete Muller |