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 45,029 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABUY | Tue Aug 17, 1999 | "What ___!" ("Don't pass up this offer!") | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| AQUARTERTO | Sat Mar 30, 2002 | Hourly time | Mark Diehl |
| ASSYRO | Sun Jun 16, 2013 | ___-Babylonian (ancient Semitic language) | Mel Rosen |
| BALTIMORECOLTS | Tue Feb 21, 1995 | Pre-Indianapolis team | Martin Schneider |
| BASEBALLFAN | Tue Sep 8, 2009 | Typical visitor to Cooperstown | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BLEMISH | Sun Oct 31, 1999 | Flaw | Frank Longo |
| BYYOURLEAVE | Sun Jul 10, 2016 | Request for permission | Patrick Berry |
| CANDIDA | Thu May 22, 1997 | Shaw play | Rose White |
| DEBITHOMAS | Mon Jul 7, 2008 | 1986 world champion American figure skater | Bob Klahn |
| DELANOROOSEVELT | Fri Mar 8, 1996 | Famous Franklin | R. Ross |
| DIERESIS | Sat Oct 22, 2005 | The two dots in "naïve" | Patrick Berry |
| EDYTA | Fri Oct 5, 2012 | Sliwinska of "Dancing With the Stars" | Patrick Berry |
| EMPORIO | Sun May 2, 2004 | Italian shopping mart | Derrick Niederman |
| EVILMIND | Mon Jul 24, 2006 | Lex Luthor, for one | Richard Chisholm |
| FIRSTRUN | Sun Jul 1, 2007 | New in theaters | Nancy Salomon and Bill Zais |
| GABION | Sun May 15, 1994 | Pier support | Charles M. Deber |
| GETSONESIRISHUP | Fri Mar 11, 2005 | Becomes angry | Manny Nosowsky |
| GREATVISION | Tue Aug 8, 2017 | 20/20 | Dan Flanagan |
| HUMVEES | Sun Feb 27, 2011 | Desert Storm transports | Peter A. Collins |
| INDUCTEES | Sat Dec 23, 2017 | They're called up | Matthew Sewell |
| INTHESHOP | Sun Mar 5, 2017 | Being repaired, as a car | Timothy Polin |
| IPLEDGE | Mon Mar 30, 2009 | Start of a daily school recital | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LIPTONBRISK | Mon Feb 25, 2013 | Iced tea brand | Angela Olson Halsted |
| LOOKOUTPOINT | Wed Feb 4, 2015 | Warning shouted to a lacrosse defenseman? | Julian Lim |
| LUSTFORLIFE | Tue Oct 25, 2005 | Van Gogh biography | Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette |
| PETITGRIS | Sun Oct 5, 2008 | Snail variety whose name means "small gray" | Byron Walden |
| PLAYSKOOL | Tue Feb 11, 2003 | Hasbro division | Myles Callum |
| POPELEOXI | Sat Oct 1, 2005 | Pontiff for just 26 days in 1605 | Joe DiPietro |
| PRACTICABLE | Thu Aug 4, 2016 | Realistic | Jonathan M. Kaye |
| PREPROVIDE | Fri Sep 13, 2002 | Make available in advance | Mel Rosen |
| RATURE | Fri Dec 27, 1996 | Erasure, in Rouen | B. White |
| RAZETOTHEGROUND | Thu Nov 21, 1996 | Level | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| SKYPECALL | Sun Jun 16, 2019 | Face-to-face interaction? | Joel Fagliano |
| SYPHON | Sun Feb 26, 2012 | Draw (off): Var. | Daniel A. Finan |
| THISISATEST | Sun Aug 25, 2013 | Emergency Broadcast System opening | Victor Barocas |
| WARSHIP | Sun Sep 3, 2006 | Main threat? | Lee Glickstein and Ben Tausig |
| WETTSHIRT | Sat Feb 10, 2007 | Top in a certain contest | Bob Peoples |
| WINEPARTY | Sat Mar 1, 1997 | Symposium, originally | Jim Page |
| YOUTHHOSTEL | Thu Feb 24, 2000 | Thrifty traveler's stop | Manny Nosowsky |
| ZENMASTER | Thu Apr 29, 2010 | Asian spiritual guide | David J. W. Simpson |