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 44,417 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFLUENT | Tue Dec 31, 1996 | Well-to-do | A. S. Verdesca |
| AIRDAM | Sat Feb 3, 2018 | Front spoiler on a car | Sam Ezersky and Byron Walden |
| AREWECLEAR | Fri Sep 8, 2017 | "Capisce?" | Sam Trabucco |
| BAWLERS | Fri Oct 20, 2006 | Crybabies | Ed Early |
| BURMAROAD | Tue Mar 11, 2014 | Allied supply route to China during W.W. II | Mel Rosen |
| CLAMDIP | Tue Jun 7, 2011 | Seafood-based party food | David Liben-Nowell |
| CLEAREDLANES | Sat Feb 11, 2012 | They let traffic through after a crash | Joe Krozel |
| DENTALRETAINERS | Tue Dec 13, 2016 | Attorneys' fees paid with gold fillings? | David Alfred Bywaters |
| DEVELOPEDASHORT | Sun Aug 4, 2013 | The film-processing machine at the movie studio ... | Steven Ginzburg |
| DRPHIL | Sun Mar 13, 2016 | Self-help guru who wrote "Life Code" | Tom McCoy |
| EDWINMEESE | Fri Oct 19, 2012 | Former attorney general in the Iraq Study Group | Patrick Berry |
| HEDDAGABLER | Tue May 23, 2006 | 60-Across play | Alan Arbesfeld |
| HOLYWEEK | Tue Aug 20, 2013 | Variable spring period | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |
| HOROL | Sun Oct 30, 2005 | Watchmaker's sci. | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| INCUBATION | Fri Apr 28, 2017 | Development period | David Steinberg |
| KARAOKEMACHINES | Fri Nov 7, 2008 | Self-contained music equipment | Kevin G. Der |
| KELLS | Sat Jan 17, 2015 | Book of ___ | Josh Knapp |
| LADYANDTHETRAMP | Tue May 2, 2000 | 1955 Disney classic | Manny Nosowsky |
| LIFECOACH | Sat Dec 26, 2015 | Guru for hire | James Mulhern |
| MOONISH | Tue Jan 30, 1996 | Fickle | M. Skolsky |
| NFCEAST | Wed Sep 9, 2015 | Giants' div. | Michael Hawkins |
| NODOSE | Sun Dec 16, 2012 | Knobby | Matt Ginsberg |
| ONEBAR | Fri Nov 17, 1995 | Lieutenant's insignia | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| PHONEBOX | Mon Feb 29, 2016 | Once-ubiquitous red fixture seen along London streets | Joel Fagliano |
| RAVINED | Sat Nov 3, 2012 | Showing severe erosion, maybe | Milo Beckman |
| REENLIST | Tue Sep 10, 2002 | Do another hitch | Wei-Hwa Huang |
| ROSEANNES | Fri May 13, 1994 | Arnold and others | Randolph Ross |
| SOCIALWORKER | Sun Nov 22, 2009 | #2: Tea server? | Patrick Merrell |
| STRIKESUPATUNE | Wed Nov 15, 2006 | Begins to play | David Benkof |
| SWANNINLOVE | Sat Mar 20, 2004 | Jeremy Irons film based on Proust's writings | Byron Walden |
| TELLSOFF | Mon Oct 18, 1999 | Chews out | Nancy Salomon and Karen Riekert |
| TERTIAL | Sat Jul 9, 2005 | Certain wing feather | Patrick Berry |
| THESAINT | Thu May 28, 2009 | 1960s Roger Moore TV series | Gary Cee |
| TOWNHOME | Tue Aug 15, 1995 | Row house | Randall J. Hartman |
| TRIPLETAIL | Mon Mar 4, 1996 | Large marine fish | S. B. Whitten |
| TRUEBORN | Fri Jul 20, 2001 | "Though banish'd, yet a ___ Englishman": "Richard II" | Jim Page |
| UNSATED | Thu Dec 8, 2005 | Still not happy | David Pringle |
| VACUUMCLEANER | Wed Sep 13, 2006 | Hose site | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| WESTWALL | Sat Jun 18, 1994 | Siegfried Line of 1930's Germany | Randolph Ross |
| WHOSONFIRST | Sun Jul 1, 2007 | Classic Abbott and Costello bit | Nancy Salomon and Bill Zais |