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 50,385 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
ALLTIMELOW	Wed Jun 25, 2003	Worst ever	Leonard Williams
AMEBIC	Sun Jun 29, 2003	Protozoan	Rich Norris
ANANAS	Fri Jan 31, 2014	Pineapples: Sp.	Chris A. McGlothlin
ARMYUNIT	Sat Mar 15, 2025	Company, e.g.	Ryan McCarty
BACKUPQB	Tue Mar 19, 2019	Substitute for Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers, informally [16,17]	Daniel Larsen
CALMA	Sun Feb 6, 2005	Serenity, in Seville	Joel Kaplow
CHESSBOXER	Sat May 31, 2025	Participant in a hybrid sport that requires both brains and brawn	Adam Aaronson and Ricky Cruz
COMEONTO	Thu Feb 17, 2000	Make a pass at	Matt Gaffney and David Bianco
CRIMERING	Sat Dec 16, 2023	Ones making a racket?	Garrett Chalfin
GOATBUTTER	Sat Aug 16, 2025	Dairy spread in a health food store	Byron Walden
GREEDISGOOD	Sat May 8, 2021	"Wall Street" catchphrase	David Steinberg
GROUNDSQUIRRELS	Sat Apr 18, 2009	Marmots and prairie dogs	Byron Walden
HEDDAGABLER	Tue May 23, 2006	60-Across play	Alan Arbesfeld
HEELERS	Sat May 3, 2014	Many party hacks	Sam Ezersky
HOOFSIT	Sun Dec 17, 2023	Chooses sidewalk over subway, say	Jeremy Newton
JAZZFEST	Sat Jun 1, 2024	Annual music event in the Big Easy	Eric Warren
LATINROOT	Thu Mar 20, 2025	The word "aquarium" has one	Daniel Grinberg
LAUGHING	Thu May 14, 2015	See 30-Across	Kameron Austin Collins
LEADINGS	Fri Aug 22, 1997	Spaces between lines, in printing	Frank Longo
LEGALREPRESENTATION	Sun Jul 9, 2023		Christina Iverson
MALENURSE	Sat Jul 27, 2013	Member of a medical minority	John Lieb and David Quarfoot
MEDIADIET	Sat Jul 26, 2025	What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively	Adam Levav
MINIATURES	Sat Feb 21, 2004	Dollhouse collector's collection	Brendan Quigley and Patrick Berry
ONEINFOUR	Sat May 9, 2015	Chance of getting heads on two consecutive coin flips	Kristian House
ORAJEL	Sat Nov 22, 2025	Toothache medication	Blake Slonecker
PERFECTCUBES	Mon Sep 29, 1997	1, 8, 27, 64, etc.	Randy Sowell
PICNICAREA	Mon Jan 10, 2011	Outdoor eating place where you might lay a blanket	James Tuttle
PONTIACS	Sun Dec 8, 2024	Firebirds and Fieros	John Kugelman
PULLAPART	Thu Nov 5, 2020	Rend	Jeremy Newton
REDQUEEN	Thu Nov 6, 2008	"Through the Looking-Glass" antagonist	Jeremy Newton
SCRUMS	Sun Jan 24, 1999	Rugby formations	Robert Malinow
SHARPNESS	Fri Mar 10, 1995	Acerbity	Frank A. Longo
SINCLAIROIL	Sat Feb 26, 2005	Company with a brontosaur logo	Jim Page
SIRROBERTPEEL	Sun Apr 24, 2005	First British Conservative P.M.	Brendan Emmett Quigley
SPROUTWINGS	Thu Nov 29, 2018	*Become angelic, figuratively	Herre Schouwerwou
STEENBOK	Sun Oct 27, 2024	Horned antelope of southern Africa	Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen
TURNSTOSTONE	Sun May 13, 2007	*What someone who looks at Medusa does	Jim Page
VEDAS	Fri Sep 17, 2004	Sacred Hindu text	Manny Nosowsky
VIRTUOUS	Fri Nov 3, 2006	Chaste	Manny Nosowsky
WHATLLIDO	Sat May 11, 2002	1924 Irving Berlin tune	Mark Diehl