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 50,360 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTARCTICCIRCLE | Wed May 18, 2016 | Where the midnight sun can be observed | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| ANTISANA | Wed Mar 8, 1995 | Ecuadorean volcano | Wayne Robert Williams |
| AVIVIAN | Fri Nov 26, 1999 | Tel ___ | Roger Phillips |
| BEREAVES | Sun Dec 3, 1995 | Deprives (of) | Martin Schneider |
| BYHAND | Wed Nov 15, 2000 | Manually | Chuck Deodene |
| CHARTEREDPLANES | Sun Oct 17, 2021 | Ritzy transports | Jeff Chen |
| CLATTERY | Wed Oct 30, 2002 | Like a bucket of bolts | Kumar Balani |
| COMPAQCENTER | Thu Jan 12, 2012 | Old name of the San Jose Sharks' arena | Gareth Bain |
| CUTADEAL | Sat Apr 9, 2022 | Shake hands, perhaps | Sam Buchbinder |
| DENOTING | Fri Apr 19, 2002 | Meaning | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DJAKARTA | Fri Jan 26, 1996 | Capital city once called Batavia | M. Nosowsky |
| DOSSAL | Sun Jan 2, 1994 | Chancel cloth | Brian G. Tyler |
| DRAGEE | Sun Oct 15, 1995 | Sugarcoated medication | Mel Rosen |
| EVEENSLER | Tue Dec 6, 2022 | "The Vagina Monologues" playwright | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu |
| FAINTOFHEART | Sun Dec 8, 2024 | Squeamish | John Kugelman |
| FASTSTART | Thu Jan 5, 2006 | What a pace horse is noted for | Victor Fleming |
| FENCING | Sun Jun 5, 1994 | Olympics event since 1896 | Dean Niles |
| GOGGLES | Sat Aug 30, 2014 | Welders' wear | David Steinberg |
| HIDDENTEXT | Tue Aug 16, 2011 | Invisible writing on a computer screen ... or a component of 18-, 23-, 36- and 52-Across? | David Steinberg |
| HOLDSTEADY | Mon Jun 14, 2004 | Not change course | Craig Kasper |
| ICYBLUE | Wed Nov 4, 2020 | Indigo, Cerulean | Jack Murtagh |
| IOWACAUCUS | Sat Nov 21, 2020 | Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one | Sam Ezersky |
| ISEND | Sun Oct 25, 2015 | "Where should ___ the check?" | Bill Zais |
| ITSTHEPITS | Tue Mar 15, 2022 | "Awful!" ... or a hint to the common element of 17-, 23-, 36- and 50-Across | Michael Lieberman |
| JUDITHHEUMANN | Fri Jan 6, 2023 | Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary "Crip Camp" | Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| LETITIA | Sun Mar 29, 2015 | President John Tyler's wife | Alan Arbesfeld |
| LETTERMEN | Sat Sep 21, 2013 | Students with outstanding character? | Tim Croce |
| NOSEINTHEAIR | Mon Feb 4, 2013 | Sign of haughtiness | Randall J. Hartman |
| NYRANGERS | Fri Jan 26, 2018 | First U.S. team to win the N.H.L. Stanley Cup (1928) | Caleb Madison |
| OPENRANGE | Thu Aug 25, 2016 | Area to roam | Andrew Zhou |
| PERVERTS | Fri Dec 16, 2005 | Misapplies | Joe DiPietro |
| POTBOILER | Thu Oct 4, 2001 | Fine literature it's not | David J. Kahn |
| PROFILER | Tue Sep 22, 2015 | Serial crime investigator | Victor Barocas and Tom Pepper |
| REEM | Sun Nov 2, 2025 | ___ Kassis, author of "The Arabesque Table" | Rafael Musa |
| SHIVERED | Sat Jan 16, 2016 | Had a chilling effect? | Sean Dobbin |
| TEMPTATION | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | "I can resist everything except ___": Oscar Wilde | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| THATDOGDONTHUNT | Sat Jan 6, 2024 | "Bad plan!," in Southern slang | Ben Tolkin and Julian Xiao |
| THEATRES | Sun Feb 1, 2009 | The Globe and others | Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg |
| THEJUNGLE | Sat Dec 24, 2005 | 1906 novel that helped produce widespread social reforms | Byron Walden |
| TOTHESIDE | Sat Feb 12, 2005 | Not in front or back | Joe DiPietro |