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 47,135 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARENS | Fri Jan 10, 2003 | Former Israeli minister Moshe | Manny Nosowsky |
| BALLGOWNS | Wed Nov 25, 2020 | Concerns for Cinderella and her stepsisters | John Guzzetta and Jeff Chen |
| BASEBALLWALKOUT | Sat Sep 10, 2005 | Why 31-Across didn't happen | David J. Kahn |
| CAPITALGAINS | Tue Apr 22, 2008 | Seat of government's acquisitions? | Nancy Salomon |
| CONNS | Sun Jan 11, 2015 | Steers, as a ship | Peter A. Collins |
| CORROSION | Sat Sep 20, 2003 | Chassis problem | Bob Peoples |
| CUBBYHOLE | Mon Aug 9, 2004 | Cramped space | M. Francis Vuolo |
| DOGBISCUIT | Tue Aug 9, 2005 | Treat for a trick | Victor Fleming |
| DUMPLING | Wed Sep 29, 2004 | Won ton, e.g. | Verna Suit |
| ENIGMAMACHINE | Wed Jan 16, 2008 | W.W. II encryption device | Barry C. Silk |
| EQUATORIALPLANE | Fri Nov 9, 2012 | Where chromosomes gather between poles during mitosis | Barry C. Silk |
| ETHYNE | Thu Nov 25, 2010 | Simple hydrocarbon | Bill Thompson |
| FEVERISHLY | Sun Feb 11, 2018 | At a frantic pace | Matt Ginsberg |
| FOODPYRAMID | Tue Oct 7, 2008 | Diagram of nutritional needs | Kevin G. Der |
| FOOTSTEPS | Tue May 5, 2020 | Riddle-de-dee: What is it that the more you take, the more you leave behind? | Lee Taylor |
| GONAD | Fri Sep 10, 2021 | Gamete producer | Adrian Kabigting |
| HAYING | Thu Apr 2, 2009 | Harvesting for fodder | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| IGOTNOTHIN | Sun Sep 8, 2019 | "Drawin' a blank here" | Joe DiPietro |
| INDEXED | Thu Jan 28, 2010 | Like stocks and reference books | Raymond C. Young |
| KOL | Fri Mar 20, 2009 | ___ Nidre (Yom Kippur prayer) | David Levinson Wilk |
| KUNGPAO | Fri May 3, 2019 | Spicy Chinese dish with peanuts | Trenton Charlson |
| MARSHMALLOWS | Fri Apr 10, 2020 | Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal | Byron Walden |
| MMCI | Tue May 29, 2007 | Start of the 22nd century | Jim Hyres |
| NOCTI | Sun Aug 16, 1998 | Night: Prefix | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| OUTERATMOSPHERE | Fri Mar 7, 2003 | Thin air | Harvey Estes |
| PETROLS | Sun Feb 2, 1997 | They're dispensed in litres | R. Silvestri |
| PLANTINGTHESEED | Sat Jun 2, 2007 | Groundwork? | Byron Walden |
| POIRES | Thu Jan 19, 1995 | Pears, in Paris | Bryant White |
| PONTNEUF | Mon Apr 2, 2018 | 62-Across bridge | Jason Mueller |
| PUFFY | Sat Aug 6, 2005 | Bloated | Frank Longo |
| RAINORSHINE | Sun Feb 17, 2008 | *Whatever happens | Henry Hook |
| SKINPEEL | Sun Apr 9, 2000 | Part of some facials | Joe DiPietro |
| STRESSEATER | Fri Dec 22, 2017 | One who copes by excessive snacking | Sam Trabucco |
| THAWER | Thu Oct 1, 1998 | De-icer | Manny Nosowsky |
| TOTALITARIANISM | Fri Oct 21, 2016 | "1984" concern | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| UGLYASSIN | Fri Feb 24, 2006 | Hideous | Manny Nosowsky |
| UNSEEMLY | Tue Mar 16, 2004 | Socially improper | Ron Sweet |
| WESTIES | Sun Oct 23, 2005 | Some terriers | David J. Kahn |
| WORKINGCAPITAL | Mon Sep 4, 1995 | Entrepreneur's funds | Richard Thomas |
| YAREN | Tue Nov 13, 2018 | Nauru's capital | John Ciolfi |