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 50,620 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
AFRICANANTELOPE	Thu Feb 13, 1997	What's GNU?	F. Longo
AMINOGROUP	Thu Aug 10, 2017	-NH2 attachment, in chemistry	John E. Bennett and Jeff Chen
ASDRYASABONE	Sun May 27, 2012	Severely parched	Byron Walden
AXILLAS	Sun Apr 4, 2010	Armpits	Bob Klahn
BALLTHEJACK	Fri Jun 7, 2013	Go for broke	Ed Sessa
BOYPROBLEMS	Sun Jan 3, 2021	Subject of some teen gossip sessions	Paolo Pasco
CRENNAS	Thu May 15, 1997	"Rambo" actor Richard and kin	Mark Elliot Skolsky
CRUISESBY	Sun Feb 8, 2015	Easily defeats, in sports	Jeremy Newton
DRESSDOWNDAYS	Tue Oct 17, 2023	Casual office occasions	Dominic Grillo
ETTAJAMES	Mon Sep 23, 2024	"At Last" jazz singer	Freddie Cheng
FAILINGSTUDENTS	Fri Oct 16, 2015	One measure of a school's success	Joe Krozel
FLAMINGOS	Wed Sep 30, 1998	Tropical waders	Fran and Lou Sabin
FOOLSSELDOMDIFFER	Sun Aug 30, 2015	"Great minds think alike, but ..."	Lee Taylor
FUDDY	Fri Sep 30, 2005	Stuffy sort, in slang	Nancy Kavanaugh
GRANDFORKS	Tue Aug 22, 2017	Red River Valley city in the upper Midwest	Timothy Polin
GRIZZLY	Wed Sep 8, 2010	Yellowstone sighting	Tracy Gray
HADABIT	Wed Apr 23, 2008	Ate, but not much	Stephen Edward Anderson
HELLOSTRANGER	Mon Oct 30, 2006	Comment upon bumping into an old friend, #1	Nancy Salomon
JOHNMCENROE	Sat Dec 12, 2015	German-born American tennis star who won 17 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles	Byron Walden
KEELEY	Sun Mar 6, 2022	P.R. consultant on "Ted Lasso"	Matthew Stock and Will Nediger
KRISTINSCOTTTHOMAS	Sun Mar 10, 2024	"The English Patient" actress	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock
LIFEBELTS	Thu Apr 24, 2014	Flotation gear	Stanley Newman
MELTEDCHOCOLATE	Fri Dec 6, 2013	Ganache ingredient	Elizabeth C. Gorski
MILETIME	Wed Mar 22, 2023	Important number for a middle-distance runner	Madeline Kaplan
MOOSECALLS	Sat Sep 10, 2005	Hunters' decoys	David J. Kahn
MULATTO	Sat Jul 26, 2014	Eliza in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," e.g.	Julian Lim
NOISECANCELLING	Fri Jul 2, 2021	Like some headphones	Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle
PLAYERPIANO	Sun Jun 6, 1999	Old-time entertainer	David J. Kahn
RAPTURED	Tue Mar 6, 2001	Ecstatic	Ed Early
ROSELEAVES	Sat Jul 17, 2010	Bouquet greenery	Mark Diehl
SHAKEITUP	Tue Nov 22, 2005	Beatles command, baby, in "Twist and Shout"	Nancy Salomon
STATEMOTTOS	Fri Oct 12, 2018	"Hope" and "Friendship," for two	Erik Agard and Bruce Haight
TENURETRACK	Fri Jun 3, 2022	Path at a university	Robyn Weintraub
THEPIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN	Sun Jun 20, 2004	Leader of the pack hidden in this puzzle?	Manny Nosowsky
TOERAG	Mon Dec 31, 2018	Scoundrel, in British slang	Brian Thomas
TREETAGS	Sat Jul 17, 2010	Nursery IDs	Mark Diehl
TRUMPETERSWAN	Thu Feb 29, 2024		Esha Datta
UFOLOGISTS	Sat Apr 15, 2023	Ones tracking disc-overies?	Kameron Austin Collins
WEIGHER	Sun Dec 30, 2012	Scale	Steve Savoy
XXXIX	Wed Mar 20, 2013	Super Bowl played in 2005	Raymond C. Young