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 46,701 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABACUSES | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | You can count on them | Francis Heaney |
| AIRLINES | Tue Feb 2, 2021 | El Al et al. | Adesina O. Koiki |
| ANTONYMS | Tue Oct 17, 2017 | Stop and go, e.g. | Jeff Chen |
| ARANEIDS | Sat Aug 3, 1996 | Spiders | A. D. Cover |
| ATTHEHOP | Sun Mar 14, 2004 | #1 Danny & the Juniors hit | Craig Kasper |
| BRASSERA | Fri Nov 1, 2013 | Pre-W.W. I in automotive history | Brad Wilber |
| BUSYASABEE | Wed May 28, 2014 | Working away | Tim Croce |
| CREAKS | Tue Oct 20, 1998 | Haunted house sounds | Fred Piscop |
| DABNEY | Wed Apr 30, 1997 | Actor Coleman | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DNATURAL | Fri Apr 4, 2008 | Accidental in the key of B or E | David Quarfoot |
| DRESSCOAT | Sat Sep 25, 2010 | Tails | Patrick Berry |
| FEELINGTHEHEAT | Sun Jan 26, 2014 | 8-Down, relatively | Daniel A. Finan |
| FIZZER | Sun May 17, 2020 | Alka-Seltzer tablet, for one | Byron Walden |
| FLUNKED | Wed Feb 4, 2015 | Didn't make the grade? | Julian Lim |
| FRENCHTOAST | Tue Mar 29, 1994 | "Cheers!" in Cherbourg? | Mark Danna |
| GIVEMETHAT | Wed Sep 10, 2014 | "Hand it over!" | Jim Peredo |
| GOODMAN | Fri Jan 31, 2003 | Krupa played for him | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| GROSSOUT | Mon Feb 15, 2010 | Fill with disgust | Lynn Lempel |
| HOMERING | Sun May 16, 2004 | Making a big hit | Patrick Berry |
| JUNIORPARTNER | Wed May 20, 2009 | Subsidiary member of a firm | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| LEGALRIGHT | Thu Apr 4, 2002 | Governmental guarantee | Trip Payne |
| LOZENGES | Sat Jul 29, 2017 | Hackers' helpers | Erik Agard |
| MACLEISH | Sat Sep 9, 2006 | His "J.B." won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Bob Klahn |
| MISTOOK | Mon Nov 4, 1996 | Identified wrongly | P. Wilson |
| OVERDRAFT | Mon Jan 27, 2003 | Checking account woe | Stanley Newman |
| PANTOMIMEQUIZ | Thu Sep 19, 2019 | 1949 (first winner) | David Kwong |
| PHANTOMS | Tue Mar 19, 2013 | Ghostly figures | Mike Buckley |
| PSYCHOANALYSIS | Thu May 23, 2002 | Field that may include 36-Across | John Underwood |
| RENAMING | Thu Feb 10, 2011 | Changing of labels | Derek Bowman |
| SALESCLERKS | Fri Dec 9, 2005 | Ones who'd like to get the goods on you | Sherry O. Blackard |
| SCOUTTROOP | Fri Oct 19, 2012 | Boy band? | Patrick Berry |
| SCREWEDIN | Sun May 28, 1995 | Twisted, as a bulb | Matt Gaffney |
| SKIDMARK | Tue Mar 20, 2001 | Evidence at an auto accident | Peter Abide |
| SQUEEZEBY | Fri Feb 8, 2002 | Barely get past | Manny Nosowsky |
| STRANGEBIRD | Sat Sep 29, 2012 | Odd one | Joe DiPietro |
| TITIANRED | Wed Jan 31, 2007 | Brownish orange | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| VENINS | Sun Sep 20, 2015 | Poison compounds produced by snakes | Jason Mueller and Jeff Chen |
| WIPERBLADES | Wed Jul 1, 2020 | They go back and forth in bad weather | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| WUTANGCLAN | Fri Aug 11, 2017 | Rap group whose name comes from a martial arts film | Hal Moore |
| ZIPPOLIGHTER | Mon Mar 2, 2020 | Butane-filled item for smokers | Andrea Carla Michaels |