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 50,523 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABLED | Fri Dec 27, 2024 | Possessing a full range of physical and mental faculties | Jem Burch |
| ACTSALONE | Fri Sep 14, 2007 | Doesn't support a conspiracy theory? | John Farmer |
| AGNOMENS | Sun Jun 16, 1996 | Nicknames | N. N. Joline |
| APEN | Mon Jul 31, 1995 | With the stroke of ____ | Elizabeth Gorski |
| BEARSKIN | Tue Feb 9, 2016 | Puts up with one's family? | Lynn Lempel |
| CANTREAD | Sun May 30, 2004 | End of the quote | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CELIAS | Fri Dec 1, 1995 | English actress Johnson et al. | Manny Nosowsky |
| COLONES | Fri Mar 19, 1999 | Cash, in Costa Rica | Mark Diehl |
| COUNTERMAND | Mon Sep 18, 1995 | Rescind | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CURSEAT | Sat Mar 28, 1998 | Vituperate | David J. Kahn |
| FACEPAINT | Tue Apr 23, 2019 | Decoration for some die-hard sports fans | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| FAIRISFAIR | Mon Apr 10, 2023 | "The rules apply to everyone," redundantly | Gia Bosko |
| FINGERED | Mon Sep 19, 2005 | ID'd | Timothy Powell |
| INURETO | Thu Dec 1, 2022 | Desensitize against through experience | Daniel Mauer |
| LEGISLATOR | Mon Feb 15, 2016 | Senator or representative | David J. Kahn |
| LEIBNIZ | Fri May 23, 2008 | Philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" | Patrick John Duggan |
| LONGTONS | Wed Feb 17, 2010 | 2,240-pound units | Elizabeth A. Long |
| MALENURSE | Sat Jul 27, 2013 | Member of a medical minority | John Lieb and David Quarfoot |
| MEGMARCH | Fri Mar 26, 2010 | Oldest of a literary quartet | Henry Hook |
| NEWNESS | Fri Jun 17, 2011 | Antiquity's antithesis | Paula Gamache |
| NOGUCHI | Fri May 6, 2016 | Architect/sculptor with an eponymous New York museum | Julian Lim |
| NOWWHEREWASI | Sun Sep 2, 2018 | Words after an interruption | Tom McCoy |
| ONEWAYMIRROR | Thu Oct 3, 2019 | Interrogation room fixture | Ricky Cruz |
| OPPORTUNEMOMENT | Mon Aug 15, 2005 | Best time to act | Lynn Lempel |
| PAINMED | Sat Mar 28, 2020 | Number in a pharmacy, informally | Erik Agard |
| PROMDRESS | Fri Feb 22, 2019 | Wear for a queen | Daniel Nierenberg |
| RADIOSTAR | Mon Aug 19, 2024 | Whom "video killed," in a 1979 hit | Kenneth Cortes |
| RUPAULSDRAGRACE | Tue Feb 7, 2017 | Queens' place | Finn Vigeland |
| SLIDESINTO | Fri Nov 15, 1996 | Arrives at horizontally | R. Norris |
| SNOWBALLEFFECTS | Thu Jan 26, 2023 | Developing phenomena literally depicted three times in this puzzle | Dan Ziring and Quiara Vasquez |
| SORRYSIGHT | Sun Jun 19, 2011 | "It was all my fault, gun attachment!" | Patrick Berry |
| SPACESHIPEARTH | Thu Jan 31, 2002 | Our planet, grandly | Bruce F. Adams |
| SPAREPART | Sat Jun 23, 2007 | Replacement | Patrick Berry |
| TOGETHERWITH | Sat Feb 8, 2003 | Alongside | Patrick Berry |
| TOSSOUT | Wed Aug 2, 2017 | Offer for consideration ... or remove from consideration | Bruce Haight |
| TULE | Wed Dec 23, 1998 | Large bulrush | Christopher Hurt |
| UGLINESS | Sun Mar 21, 2021 | Initial problem for a storied duckling | Julian Kwan |
| UPSTROKE | Thu Jul 11, 2024 | Certain calligraphy mark | Mat Shelden |
| WALTZING | Sat Oct 23, 2010 | Couples' activity once considered scandalous | Will Nediger |
| WESTTOEAST | Wed Jul 6, 2011 | How the jet stream proceeds ... and how to read the answers to 17-, 37- and 56-Across | Peter Collins |