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 45,352 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASKFORME | Sun Aug 5, 2007 | Personal offer to help | Caroline Leong |
| COLLYER | Sun Apr 5, 1998 | "Beat the Clock" TV host | David J. Kahn |
| CONTRIVED | Mon Feb 10, 1997 | Artificial | S. Burns |
| FISHKNIFE | Sun Apr 15, 2012 | Implement with a spatulalike blade | Kevin G. Der |
| FOOTLOCKERSTORE | Sat May 15, 2004 | Sneaker seller | Byron Walden |
| FOURTEENRED | Wed Oct 3, 2007 | Call in roulette | Robert Dillman |
| GALILEOGALILEI | Thu Nov 1, 2018 | *Tycho Brahe contemporary | Matt Ginsberg |
| GARRS | Fri Dec 15, 2000 | "Mr. Mom" co-star and others | Joe DiPietro |
| GETALLTANGLEDUP | Fri Dec 5, 2003 | Snarl | Robert H. Wolfe |
| GLOWWORMS | Tue May 24, 2016 | Luminescent larvae | Jonathan Gersch |
| GRANTOR | Tue Apr 23, 2013 | Many a benevolent organization | Severin T. Nelson |
| HEREFORDSHIRE | Sun Jun 25, 2006 | Former western English county | Jim Page |
| JIMINYCRICKET | Sat Dec 5, 2015 | Partner of 33-Across | David J. Kahn |
| KEGGER | Mon Apr 25, 2011 | Traditional frat party | Joon Pahk |
| MEDDLING | Tue May 1, 2007 | Sticking one's nose in | Courtenay Crocker and Nancy Salomon |
| MEDICINE | Sun Jul 7, 2019 | Doctor's order | Jack Reuter |
| MEGMARCH | Fri Mar 26, 2010 | Oldest of a literary quartet | Henry Hook |
| MILLERBARBER | Wed Nov 12, 1997 | Member of the P.G.A. Seniors Tour | Randall J. Hartman |
| MRSFIELDS | Sat Nov 1, 2003 | Great American Cookies rival | Bob Peoples |
| NAILSIT | Thu Dec 27, 2018 | Does something to a T | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| ORBITALS | Mon Aug 16, 1999 | Electrons, in wave functions | M. Francis Vuolo |
| PASSIVEVOICE | Sun Jan 15, 2017 | "Village" newspaper that's namby-pamby? | Joel Fagliano |
| PATMORE | Thu Sep 3, 2009 | English poet Coventry ___, who wrote "The Angel in the House" | C. W. Stewart |
| PLOTPOINTS | Tue Oct 14, 2014 | What mathematicians do? | Adam G. Perl |
| QUEEREYE | Fri Jul 9, 2004 | Popular Bravo series, informally | David Liben-Nowell |
| QUITTER | Sun Jan 17, 1999 | Proverbial loser | Cathy Millhauser |
| RAZZMATAZZ | Wed Sep 8, 2010 | Flashy display | Tracy Gray |
| RUNACROSS | Sun Feb 11, 2007 | Stumble upon | Mark Feldman |
| SEARAT | Sun Sep 4, 2016 | Pirate, in old slang | Tom McCoy |
| SENIORBOWL | Sun Feb 24, 2013 | Postseason football game played in Mobile, Ala. | Joe DiPietro |
| STEALSIN | Sun Sep 29, 2013 | Enters furtively | Norm Guggenbiller |
| SUMMERHIT | Sun Apr 3, 2016 | 2010's "California Gurls" or 1996's "Macarena" | Natan Last |
| TEAGARDEN | Mon Jun 25, 2018 | Locale for a traditional Japanese ceremony | Kathy Wienberg |
| TOADIER | Sun Aug 19, 2001 | Sycophant | David J. Kahn |
| TRICORDERS | Fri Aug 9, 2013 | Hand-held "Star Trek" devices | Patrick Berry |
| TRIPLEOVERTIME | Thu Apr 13, 2017 | Uncommon period in basketball ... or a hint to 19- and 37-Across and 4- and 48-Down | Michael Shteyman |
| UNREVERSED | Sun Jun 23, 2002 | Normal, as a photo | Eric Berlin |
| VERMONTER | Mon May 21, 2018 | Bernie Sanders, for one | Hannah Slovut |
| WHITECOLLARWORKER | Sun Jan 4, 2004 | Dry cleaner? | Patrick Merrell |
| ZEROVISIBILITY | Mon Nov 21, 2016 | Driving condition in a blizzard | John Lieb |