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 50,612 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUSINITT | Fri Jun 1, 2018 | Hirsute character on "The Addams Family" | Andrew J. Ries |
| DONTOVERTHINKIT | Fri Nov 5, 2021 | "This isn't a trick question" | Joseph Greenbaum |
| DRYFARMS | Fri Aug 6, 2010 | Arid area agriculture | Patrick Berry |
| EATONS | Sun Apr 5, 2009 | ___ Corrasable Bond (old typing paper) | Charles Deber |
| EMPIREWAIST | Fri Oct 2, 2009 | Dress style that appears to lengthen the body | Brad Wilber |
| FANEDITS | Sat Jul 19, 2025 | Unauthorized cuts of existing movies | Erik Agard |
| FIEFDOMS | Sat Feb 23, 2002 | Lordships | Rich Norris |
| FITFORAKING | Mon Jan 21, 2019 | Regal | Sean Biggins |
| GAUD | Sun Mar 21, 2004 | Showy trinket | Roy Leban |
| GLOBALCLIMATE | Sun Jan 18, 2009 | *Kyoto Treaty topic | Randolph Ross |
| GRUBBER | Wed Apr 23, 2003 | Scrounging sort | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| HANNO | Fri Feb 15, 2008 | Carthaginian statesman who opposed war with Rome | Patrick Berry |
| HARDEE | Sat Apr 9, 2016 | Wilber who founded a fast-food chain | David Phillips |
| HARDROLLS | Tue Oct 24, 2006 | Crusty bakery buys | Gail Grabowski |
| JOHNJAMESAUDUBON | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Artist born April 26, 1785 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| KISSYFACE | Sat Mar 15, 2014 | Indication that one wants to get smacked | Ed Sessa |
| KNEWSOMEONE | Sat Feb 1, 2003 | Was connected | Rich Norris |
| LATEXPAINT | Mon Mar 25, 2019 | Wall covering that's washable with soap and water | Kevin Christian and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LHASAAPSOS | Mon Nov 30, 2015 | Tibetan watchdogs | Ian Livengood |
| LUCYLIU | Sun Oct 27, 2024 | "Charlie's Angels" actress | Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen |
| MACARONINOODLES | Mon Oct 21, 2024 | Elbows in a grocery store | Neil Padrick Wilson |
| MAKESWORSE | Fri Apr 23, 2004 | Aggravates | Alan Olschwang |
| MARINEECOLOGIST | Fri Jun 11, 2010 | 31-Across, for one | John Dunn |
| MLKDAY | Thu May 29, 2025 | Fed. observance since 1986 | John Kugelman |
| MOTORSCOOTERS | Fri Dec 17, 2010 | Noisy vehicles | Patrick Berry |
| NOBELPRIZEWINNINGPOET | Sun Mar 30, 1997 | What 80-Across became in 1996 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| NONSKILLED | Fri Nov 1, 1996 | Like some minimum-wage workers | M. Rosen |
| NUCLEARBLAST | Thu Aug 31, 2000 | Physicists' fete? | Gene Newman |
| PERORAL | Sat Feb 12, 1994 | Via the mouth | Rand H. Burns |
| RATCH | Wed Apr 11, 2007 | Toothed bar | Bruce Adams |
| ROOTCAUSES | Thu Aug 8, 2024 | Fundamental issues | Christopher Youngs |
| SOURBALL | Sat Jan 20, 1996 | Piece of hard candy | F. Longo |
| STAFFROOM | Wed Oct 29, 2008 | Schoolteachers' break area | Steven L. Zisser |
| STUMPERS | Wed Nov 3, 1999 | Tough puzzles | Greg Staples |
| SUPERMOONS | Wed Jun 11, 2025 | Celestial phenomena observed at perigees | Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen |
| TOOSLOW | Sat Nov 26, 2022 | Not keeping up | Kanyin Ajayi |
| TRIALDATES | Thu May 5, 2022 | Judgment days? | Adam Wagner |
| VIAMEDIA | Thu Aug 1, 2024 | Middle ground, from the Latin | Rajeswari Rajamani |
| XANADUS | Thu Feb 6, 2020 | Heavens on earth | Jake Halperin |
| YIPPEEKIYAY | Sat May 29, 2021 | Exclamation popularized by "Die Hard" | Adam Aaronson |