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 45,566 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDIM | Sun Sep 26, 2010 | "... ___ the queen of England!" | Pamela Amick Klawitter |
| ASKMEAGAINLATER | Mon Dec 15, 1997 | Evasive answer #3 | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| BEETHOVENSTHIRD | Thu Nov 10, 1994 | E | Alfio Micci |
| CANDELA | Fri Sep 13, 2002 | Unit of luminous intensity | Mel Rosen |
| CENTRALHEATER | Mon Dec 14, 2009 | Furnace, e.g. | Tim Darling |
| CENTURYPLANT | Wed Sep 13, 2000 | Agave | Jim Morton |
| DELETION | Sun Dec 24, 2006 | Cross-out | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DRAWLOTS | Sat Dec 2, 2006 | Decide by chance | Bob Klahn |
| EXEGETE | Wed Jan 14, 2009 | Expert at interpreting a text | Oliver Hill |
| EXPOSERS | Tue Mar 11, 2008 | Whistle-blowers | Eugene W. Sard |
| FACTORYOUTLETS | Thu Dec 30, 1993 | Alternatives to malls | A.J. Santora |
| FLOODPLAIN | Mon Aug 29, 2011 | Bad place to live when the river rises | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| FULION | Fri Jun 16, 1995 | Mythical beast in Chinese art | Thomas W. Schier |
| GOOSEPIMPLE | Fri Jul 16, 1999 | Cold symptom? | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| HOTTUNA | Thu Jul 27, 2017 | Blues-rock group that grew out of Jefferson Airplane | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| KARATEKID | Fri Jan 26, 2018 | Sobriquet for filmdom's Daniel LaRusso, with "The" | Caleb Madison |
| LENDMEYOUREARS | Wed Feb 1, 2017 | Shakespearean entreaty appropriate for 19-, 25- and 43-Across? | Matthew Sewell and Jeff Chen |
| LIKEAHOUSEAFIRE | Fri Mar 24, 2000 | Hotly | Manny Nosowsky |
| LUSHLY | Sun Apr 25, 2010 | How rain forests grow | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| MALABO | Fri Oct 17, 2008 | Equatorial Guinea's capital | Patrick Berry |
| MALAGAWINE | Sun Oct 6, 1996 | +Alcoholic product of Spain | R. Max Hopkins |
| MALLARDS | Sun Oct 2, 2011 | Green-headed water birds | Eric Berlin |
| MOVINGGOALPOSTS | Wed Dec 4, 2019 | "Expanding the bleachers isn't enough. We need to relocate the whole stadium" | Evan Mahnken |
| NICEDOG | Thu Apr 14, 2005 | Appeasing words from a nervous postman? | David Murchie |
| NYMPHO | Sun Jul 14, 2013 | Lead-in to 88-Down | Daniel A. Finan |
| OILPLATFORM | Wed Sep 18, 2019 | Stable base for a drilling rig | John Wrenholt |
| ONEOCTAVE | Fri Jun 15, 2012 | "Home on the Range" range | Mark Diehl |
| PATACAKE | Sun Mar 5, 2000 | Kids' game | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| RENEWABLE | Fri Mar 18, 2011 | Like wind and solar energy | Patrick Merrell |
| REPARK | Sun Oct 11, 2015 | Find another spot, maybe | David J. Kahn |
| RERAKE | Thu Dec 15, 1994 | Smooth again, as soil | Rich Norris |
| SAIDTHEWORD | Sat Oct 1, 1994 | O.K.'d | Bob Klahn |
| SCOTUS | Sun Oct 13, 2019 | District 9, for short? | Erik Agard |
| SENSATIONALISTS | Fri Apr 15, 2011 | Typical tabloid writers | Patrick Berry |
| SINKSTOANEWLOW | Mon Sep 15, 1997 | Declines, as a plumber? | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| SLOPEDOWN | Mon Jul 18, 2016 | Decline, as a ramp | Jacob Stulberg |
| SMOKEDHAM | Sat Aug 2, 2003 | Cured fare | Dana Motley |
| SPADECASINO | Sun Sep 21, 2008 | Card game played to 61 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| TIEINWITH | Sat Jan 29, 2005 | Connect to | Patrick Berry |
| TINKER | Wed Oct 19, 2016 | Fiddle (with) | Tom Pepper |