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.
Not all these words make sense. Some of them are unique because they're part of some wacky theme. Some are errors that don't fit the standard Across Lite format. There are 52,483 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOCKET | Fri 10/24/1997 | It's full of rye, in rhyme | Frank Longo |
| BUNGALOWBILL | Wed 5/28/2003 | Character in a Beatles "White Album" tune | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CAINEPILLAR | Sun 9/14/2014 | Actor Michael's means of support? | Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer |
| CALLOW | Sat 6/25/2011 | Wet behind the ears | Barry C. Silk |
| CECILFIELDER | Sun 3/27/1994 | Fitting name for a baseball player | Jeanette K. Brill |
| CEMENTMIXER | Fri 12/1/2006 | It goes around at a construction site | Mike Nothnagel |
| CHANGEAFINN | Sun 8/18/2002 | "Helsinki: At the bank to ___" | Michael Ashley |
| COMBINE | Fri 11/21/2003 | Farm machine | David Ainslie Macleod |
| COMETOTERMSWITH | Mon 10/31/2005 | Finally accept | Jim Hyres |
| DEADENDJOB | Mon 8/23/2010 | Work that offers no chance for advancement | Oliver Hill |
| DONTWORRYBABY | Tue 7/1/2014 | Reassurance from the Beach Boys, 1964 | Gary Cee |
| DRISTANANDISOLDE | Sun 4/7/1996 | What's your favorite opera? | C. Millhauser |
| DUSTCOVER | Fri 7/27/2007 | Furniture protector | John R. Conrad |
| EMILYS | Wed 9/7/1994 | Dickinson and Bronte | Cathy Millhauser |
| GERMIER | Thu 3/1/2012 | More likely to make you sick, say | Steven E. Atwood |
| GROTIUS | Fri 9/30/1994 | Dutch statesman Hugo | Matt Gaffney |
| HALFBLOODPRINCE | Mon 9/26/2011 | Part of a 2005 Harry Potter title | David Gray |
| HERMANSHERMITS | Tue 10/13/2015 | "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" band | Patrick Berry |
| ILLFIXHISWAG | Sun 10/8/2000 | Veterinarian's promise? | Richard Silvestri |
| LAMODE | Sat 5/5/2007 | French fashion | David Quarfoot |
| LEFTLANECLOSED | Tue 3/27/2007 | Second sign of a highway headache | Lucy Gardner Anderson |
| LOSEONESMOJITO | Sun 4/24/2011 | Spill a Cuban drink? | Caleb Madison and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| LUNAS | Fri 8/10/2012 | Pale-green moths | John Lampkin |
| MNEMONICS | Sun 8/21/2011 | "I before E except after C" and others | Alan Arbesfeld |
| MOOGOOGAIPAN | Mon 9/19/2005 | Chinese main dish | Timothy Powell |
| OPTIMUMS | Sat 2/16/2002 | Ideals | Frank Longo |
| OVERAWE | Sun 6/28/2009 | Cow | Barry C. Silk |
| PODGE | Wed 10/10/2012 | See 19-Across | Pete Muller |
| PRENATALCARE | Sun 11/27/2016 | Pasty + vacation expense, maybe = hospital specialty | Matt Ginsberg |
| PUSHYOURLUCK | Tue 8/11/2015 | Ask the boss for more vacation time after getting a raise, perhaps | Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor |
| QUACKERY | Thu 1/26/2006 | Charlatan's work | Manny Nosowsky |
| REDPEN | Fri 7/17/2015 | Marker of mistakes | Paolo Pasco |
| SELENATE | Sun 1/16/1994 | Chemical salt | Ernst Theimer |
| SHARPFOOT | Tue 9/4/2001 | Off-key cop? | Randall J. Hartman |
| SNACKCOUNTER | Sun 4/6/2014 | Dieter, at times? | Patrick Berry |
| TAHR | Tue 10/18/2005 | Asian goat | Jay Leatherman |
| THERESAINMYSOUP | Thu 2/7/2008 | *Classic comical restaurant complaint | Kenneth J. Berniker |
| THREEFREETHROWS | Thu 10/16/1997 | Tongue twister #1 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| TRUESTORY | Fri 2/5/1999 | "I'm not making that up!" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| WETSOFTHEMOON | Wed 3/15/2006 | Lunar anti-prohibitionists? | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |