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 50,670 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBUSDUMBLEDORE | Fri Jul 3, 2015 | School head in a best-selling series of novels | Brandon Hensley |
| BABYYODA | Tue Nov 2, 2021 | Nickname for the Mandalorian's charge | Vaibhav Srikaran and Matthew Stock |
| BELESPRIT | Wed Nov 27, 2024 | Clever person | Jill Singer |
| BETAMALE | Sat Jun 10, 2017 | Subservient sort | Mark Diehl |
| BISCAYNEBAY | Tue Jun 2, 2020 | View off the coast of Miami | John Guzzetta |
| CELEBRITYPOKER | Sun Oct 5, 2008 | *Where stars can be seen fluffing and folding | Byron Walden |
| COMETOTERMSWITH | Mon Oct 31, 2005 | Finally accept | Jim Hyres |
| CUTNOICE | Thu Aug 3, 2023 | Carry zero weight, idiomatically | Simeon Seigel |
| DEBARRED | Sun Jul 9, 1995 | Excluded | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| DEPARTMENT | Tue Mar 25, 2025 | Cabinet division | Bob Benson |
| DIDA | Tue Nov 14, 2000 | ___ number on (psyched out) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DONKEYEARS | Sun Aug 10, 2025 | ... something pointy grown by Pinocchio | Adam Wagner and Chandi Deitmer |
| DONUTSHOP | Fri Mar 7, 2025 | Enterprise with many holes in its business plan? | Malaika Handa |
| ELSAMAXWELL | Tue Jun 29, 1999 | Old-time journalist-socialite | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| EXPANSIONTEAMS | Thu Oct 16, 2008 | 20-, 25- and 42-Across, so to speak | Ian Tullis |
| FALSECUT | Sat Oct 11, 2025 | Deck deception | Sam Ezersky |
| FRIEZES | Sun May 27, 2001 | Decorative bands | Dana Motley |
| GUCCIMANE | Mon Sep 6, 2021 | *Atlanta rapper featured on Lizzo's Grammy-nominated "Exactly How I Feel" | Joshua Rosenblatt |
| HOLDINCONTEMPT | Thu Nov 3, 2022 | COLD S_ _U_ _ER | Chase Dittrich and Jeff Chen |
| JACKARMSTRONG | Sun Mar 27, 1994 | Fitting name for a baseball pitcher | Jeanette K. Brill |
| KROGERS | Sat Aug 18, 2012 | Some markets | Dana Motley |
| LOBSTERPOTS | Mon Jul 23, 2007 | Traps off the coast of Maine | Randall J. Hartman |
| NOODLING | Mon Feb 17, 2025 | Messing around, as with an instrument or ideas | Kate Hawkins and Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| OPEDESSAY | Sat Jun 28, 2008 | Will work? | Byron Walden |
| ORONYMS | Tue Feb 6, 2018 | Words and phrases that sound approximately alike, like "ice scream" and "I scream" | Bruce Haight |
| PAPASMURF | Fri Jun 1, 2007 | White-bearded, red-capped patriarch | David Quarfoot and Katy Swalwell |
| PARTIALITY | Fri Nov 25, 2016 | Special fondness | Patrick Berry |
| SCOTCHANDSODA | Thu Aug 8, 2024 | Mixed drink with an alliterative name | Christopher Youngs |
| SHAKENBAKE | Fri Aug 12, 2016 | Product with a Crispy Buffalo variety | Kelly Clark |
| SHIMODA | Sun Apr 2, 1995 | Japanese port city | Norman S. Wizer |
| SHURI | Wed May 5, 2021 | "Black Panther" princess/superhero | Bryce Hwang, Rahul Sridhar and Akshay Ravikumar |
| SLACKSOFFATWORK | Thu May 27, 2004 | Wardrobe malfunction on the job? | Cathy Millhauser |
| STANMUSIAL | Fri May 4, 2012 | Cardinal for 22 years | Barry C. Silk |
| SUGARPLUMFAIRIES | Sun Aug 16, 1998 | Tchaikovsky dancers | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| TENNISBRACELET | Tue Jun 25, 2024 | Piece of jewelry consisting of a single line of diamonds | Seth Bisen-Hersh and Jeff Chen |
| THESHINING | Wed Nov 4, 2015 | Movie with the classic line "Here's Johnny!" | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| TWISTSON | Fri Dec 5, 2003 | Secures, as a bottle cap | Robert H. Wolfe |
| URIAHHEEP | Fri Mar 21, 1997 | 'Umble Dickens character | Shannon Burns |
| WHOLELOTTALOVE | Tue Nov 11, 1997 | Led Zeppelin hit, 1969 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| WIDOWED | Tue Oct 22, 1996 | Bereaved, in a way | E. Quigley |