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 50,940 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
ACEPHATE	Sat Jun 29, 1996	Common insecticide	F. Longo
AIRRAIDS	Thu Nov 13, 2003	Danger from above	Manny Nosowsky
ALITTLEGIVEANDTAKE	Sun Jul 20, 2014	See instructions	Eric Berlin
BADGERGAME	Sat May 29, 2004	Cheating-woman-with-an-angry-husband con	Patrick Berry
BOASTING	Sun Jan 29, 2017	Chest-thumping	Jim Hyres and David Steinberg
BROCASAREA	Tue May 7, 2019	Brain region linked to speech	Ross Trudeau
CEASING	Fri Jan 23, 2004	Knocking off	Sherry O. Blackard
DAUNTED	Wed May 15, 2019	Disheartened	Zhouqin Burnikel
DEMONIZE	Tue Dec 13, 1994	Portray as satanic	Jon Delfin
DESKCOPY	Fri Jun 29, 2007	Teacher's request of a publisher	Mike Nothnagel
DRYROASTED	Sat Apr 6, 2013	Like some nuts	Michael Wiesenberg
EATFAT	Sun Oct 1, 1995	Emulate Sprat's wife	Frank A. Longo
EXPERIENCE	Sat Sep 2, 2006	Go through	Mel Rosen
FRANDRESCHER	Sun Sep 7, 2003	1990's sitcom star	Alan Arbesfeld
GEORGERAFT	Tue Nov 9, 1999	"Bolero" star, 1934	Elizabeth C. Gorski
GETANEDGE	Sun May 1, 2016	Find some advantage	Joel Fagliano and Byron Walden
HASDOWN	Wed Jun 19, 2024	Knows by heart	Brad Wiegmann
INGAME	Sat Oct 1, 2016	Like live-blogged sports updates	David Woolf
INMEMORY	Sun Nov 19, 2017	As far as one can recall	Tom McCoy
KENYON	Fri Sep 30, 2016	College where Rutherford B. Hayes was valedictorian	James Mulhern
KISSINGKIN	Thu Feb 19, 2004	Close cousins	Alfio Micci (1918-2004)
LETTERDROP	Wed Feb 8, 2017	Opening at the post office ... or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues	Ned White
MAJORLY	Sun Jan 19, 2003	In a big way	Eric Berlin
MOBIUSSTRIP	Sun Dec 28, 2025	A Strange Loop	Alex Eaton-Salners
NATUREWALK	Tue Apr 30, 2013	Activity led by a park ranger, perhaps	Lynn Lempel
OXTONGUE	Fri Aug 26, 2011	Kind of stew	Brendan Emmett Quigley
PERDAY	Thu Mar 31, 2016	Like some parking garage rates	Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen
PERIODIDE	Sat Mar 22, 2008	Salt with the maximum proportion of element #53	Byron Walden
PLAYASCENE	Mon Sep 11, 2006	Do some acting	Lynn Lempel
PROFILEPICS	Fri Jul 19, 2024	Things that are head and shoulders above the rest?	Jacob McDermott
QUEENVICTORIA	Fri May 24, 2019	So-called "Grandmother of Europe," born 5/24/1819	Stanley Newman
REMINDUS	Sat Jun 10, 2023	"Please jog our memory ..."	John Hawksley
ROCKFORD	Tue Jul 21, 2009	1970s James Garner TV title role	Donna S. Levin
ROSYSCENARIO	Sat Jun 26, 2004	What an optimist envisions	Byron Walden
SEARCHHISTORY	Sun Apr 27, 2025		Jacob Reed
SIMBAS	Fri Jun 27, 2003	"The Lion King II: ___ Pride"	Manny Nosowsky
SOSOREVIEWS	Wed Oct 10, 2018	They might have 2 1/2 or 3 stars	Alex Eaton-Salners
SPYCATCHER	Sun Dec 28, 2008	Controversial 1987 exposé by ex-MI5 agent Peter Wright	Patrick Berry
STATEPARK	Sat Sep 21, 2002	Niagara Reservation was the first one in 1885	Rich Norris
WIDEBERTH	Sun Dec 4, 2011	Generous leeway	Kelsey Blakley