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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 50,732 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
AGEDCHEESESat May 3, 2025Manchego curado or Asiago d'allevoMichael Lieberman
ANDNOTSun May 16, 2010ExceptingMatt Ginsberg
BACKORDEREDTue Oct 20, 2020Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred cluesJeff Chen
BIGRAMSSun Jan 30, 2011Two-letter combinationsKevin G. Der and Jessica A. Hui
BRUNCHMENUFri May 19, 2023Its offerings end around 2 p.m.David Distenfeld
BUYAMERICANTue Nov 12, 2019Stick with U.S.-made productsGabrielle Friedman and Jakob Weisblat
CANONICSat Apr 2, 1994Authorized, in a wayManny Nosowsky
CASUISTSun Apr 29, 2012Student of moralityTracy Gray
CHARTAESat Dec 25, 1993Medicinal paper stripsRand H. Burns
COUNTRYSun May 11, 2014Mother ___Peter A. Collins
CRANKITSun Jun 16, 2024"Turn up the volume!"Chandi Deitmer and Wyna Liu
DATACENTERFri Apr 21, 2023Where servers work around the clockErica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock
DOBEDOBEDOWed Feb 5, 2020Nonsense line sung by Frank Sinatra in "Strangers in the Night"Ross Trudeau
DUMBWAITERSSun May 8, 1994Kitchen contraptionsRalph G. Beaman
EDMUNDHILLARYSun Sep 4, 2022*Mount Everest scalerTracy Gray
EMOPHILIPSThu May 3, 2001Speaker of the quip starting at 20-AcrossTrip Payne
ETAGESSun May 22, 1994French storiesRandolph Ross
FAKESMILESat Aug 20, 2011Something one might be forced to wear at workByron Walden
GAOLBREAKSat Oct 14, 2006Reading event?Byron Walden
GEOCENTRICORBITSat Apr 16, 2022Travel around the worldHemant Mehta
GETOFFONTHERIGHTFOOTSun Nov 20, 2022Dextropodophiles ...Joe Deeney
GOODGUESSMon Aug 23, 2021"You were close with that response"Bruce Haight
HARASSMENTSun Oct 27, 2013BadgeringBrendan Emmett Quigley
INFESTERSSun Apr 1, 2001VerminBill Zais and Nancy Salomon
LEGALTEAMSMon Sep 1, 2014Groups hired for high-profile casesAllan E. Parrish
LETTERBOXSat Sep 13, 2014TV screen formatJosh Knapp
MAHJONGTILEMon Jul 13, 2020Game piece on which 20-, 33- or 39-Across might be picturedErik Agard
MAKESWORSEFri Apr 23, 2004AggravatesAlan Olschwang
MAKINGARUNFORITFri Apr 12, 2013In flight?Patrick Berry
NEUTRONSFri Aug 29, 1997Atomic bitsMark Diehl
OUTOFSTEPFri May 26, 2006Marching sloppilyMike Torch
PERCENTSIGNThu Jan 6, 2011*Symbol above a 5Mike Nothnagel
PORKPIEHATSat Apr 16, 2011Buster Keaton trademarkRobert H. Wolfe
SCHOLARSHIPFri May 26, 2023Knowledge, or a means to acquire itHemant Mehta
SHOOTEMThu Feb 3, 1994_____-up (film genre)A.J. Santora
SLABBINGMon Jul 24, 2017Applying thickly, with "on"Peter Gordon
SURECURESat Jan 11, 2025Well, that works!Ryan McCarty
TAXFREEWed Dec 13, 2017Like income from municipal bonds, usuallyBenjamin Kramer
TOSAMSun Jul 16, 2017"Life According ___" (Emmy-winning documentary)Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller
TREEFULWed Dec 27, 1995Whole lot of applesDavid J. Kahn
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