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 51,097 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
BADHABITS	Sun Feb 10, 2019	Subjects of some New Year's resolutions	Lee Taylor
BIGGAMES	Fri Apr 11, 2014	Bowls, e.g.	Peter Wentz
BINGOCARD	Sat Nov 8, 2025	Accessory with a grid of numbers	Ryan Judge
CHAPERONS	Sat Mar 8, 1997	Some supervisors	Rich Norris
CONVOKED	Sat Sep 11, 1999	Called	Rich Norris
CRISTAL	Sun Sep 5, 2010	Champagne often mentioned in hip-hop songs	Will Nediger
DVDPLAYER	Fri Jun 14, 2002	Cinephile's purchase	Randolph Ross
EMBLAZONED	Sat Dec 31, 1994	Brilliantly decorated	Alex K. Justin
FABLABS	Wed Aug 21, 2024	Workspaces with 3-D printers and laser cutters, informally	Stacey Yaruss McCullough
GOACROSSTOWN	Sat Jun 26, 2004	Take a city bus, perhaps	Byron Walden
HAPPYJUICE	Tue Feb 6, 2007	Booze	Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
HEADSTONES	Sat Jun 25, 2016	Grave accents?	Kameron Austin Collins
HIGHERPOWER	Thu Nov 5, 2015	Divine being ... or a hint to 17-, 31- and 48-Across	Samuel A. Donaldson
HISPANICHERITAGE	Thu May 26, 2011	It's celebrated for 30 days each year beginning September 15	Ashish Vengsarkar
HUEVOSRANCHEROS	Fri Aug 30, 2013	Alternative to a breakfast burrito	David Steinberg
IDOLWORSHIP	Tue Jul 20, 2010	Veneration of a cult image	Ed Sessa
JOEYRAMONE	Fri Jan 18, 2013	Rock icon for whom a Manhattan block is named	Tim Croce
JUSTINTRUDEAU	Mon Sep 22, 2025	Canadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M.	Dena R. Verkuil and Andrea Carla Michaels
LEFTATHOME	Mon Aug 22, 1994	Like Macaulay Culkin, in a 1990 movie	Sidney L. Robbins
MALENURSE	Sat Jul 27, 2013	Member of a medical minority	John Lieb and David Quarfoot
NAHUATLAN	Sat Sep 5, 1998	Mexican tongue	Thomas W. Schier
NIGHS	Wed Jun 21, 1995	Nears, old-style	Dorothea E. Shipp
ONBLAST	Mon Dec 9, 2024	Subjected to public condemnation, in modern slang	Elliot Caroll
PAINMANAGEMENT	Sun Nov 4, 2012	Overseeing of a Bayonne bakery?	Brendan Emmett Quigley
PICTUREMAGAZINE	Tue Oct 16, 2018	Periodical format not much seen nowadays	Ed Sessa
POURMONEYDOWNTHEDRAIN	Sun May 28, 2017	Step 4: Be a financial wastrel	Andrew Zhou
PRESTISSIMO	Sun Oct 29, 1995	As fast as possible	Maura B. Jacobson
PROGRESSBAR	Thu Oct 31, 2024	Graphic showing the status of a download, say	Sarah Sinclair and Paolo Pasco
RENOWNS	Sun Feb 11, 2024	Acclaims	Peter Koetters
REPELLENT	Tue Nov 11, 2003	Bug spray	M. Francis Vuolo
RUBUP	Sun Mar 26, 1995	Refresh one's memory of, in England	Rich Norris
RUMMAGED	Sat Apr 10, 1999	Sifted (through)	A. J. Santora
SEWERAGE	Wed Oct 6, 1999	Ed Norton's field of work	Fred Piscop
SNOWPIERCER	Sun May 1, 2022	2013 Bong Joon Ho thriller	Brandon Koppy
SOIWASLIKE	Sat Mar 21, 2020	Slangy part of a conversation recap	Damon Gulczynski
TANGLY	Sat May 29, 2021	All knotted up	Adam Aaronson
TELEPHONELINE	Sun Aug 18, 2013	It may come down in a storm	Elizabeth C. Gorski
TERRYCREWS	Fri Jul 10, 2020	"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor who played in the N.F.L.	John Lieb
THEREDROVER	Fri Dec 14, 2012	Sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper	Paula Gamache
TRUMPETERSWAN	Thu Feb 29, 2024		Esha Datta