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 50,371 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKKERS | Thu Feb 25, 1999 | "P.T.L. Club" couple, once | Jim Page |
| BASTAYA | Sun Sep 1, 2019 | Spanish phrase meaning "Enough is enough!" | Finn Vigeland |
| BEACHTOWEL | Thu Dec 6, 2018 | Sunbather's accessory | Sophia Maymudes |
| BOMP | Wed Apr 30, 1997 | Nonsense word repeated in a 1961 hit | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BRAINDOCTOR | Sat Dec 24, 2011 | Neurologist | Ned White |
| BRONZY | Sat Mar 13, 1999 | Nicely sun-tanned | David J. Kahn |
| BRRRR | Sun Jun 4, 1995 | "I'm c-c-c-cold!" | Bryant White |
| BRUSHPILES | Wed Jan 4, 2017 | The dentist sorted all the bristled instruments into ... | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| BUTTERFINGERED | Tue Jun 5, 2018 | Klutzy | Peter Gordon |
| CENTRALDIVISION | Mon Oct 23, 2000 | N.F.C. or A.F.C. subgroup | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg |
| CHICEST | Wed Aug 17, 2005 | Least square | Kyle Mahowald |
| CHOMSKY | Wed Dec 4, 2002 | Linguist Noam | Richard Hughes |
| CHOOCHOO | Tue Dec 2, 2008 | ... a toy train | Matt Ginsberg |
| DAID | Wed Jan 6, 1999 | "Pore Jud Is ___..." ("Oklahoma!" song) | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
| DRUMSTICK | Thu Sep 24, 2020 | Elle, e.g. | Trenton Charlson |
| FALLINGDOWN | Mon Oct 3, 2016 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme | Jacob Stulberg |
| GARYS | Thu Dec 8, 2005 | Busey and Coleman | David Pringle |
| GUNTHEENGINE | Fri Nov 3, 2006 | Floor it | Manny Nosowsky |
| HORRORFILM | Tue Apr 13, 2021 | "Get Out," for one | Michael Lieberman |
| INGESTA | Sun Apr 5, 1998 | Food eaten | David J. Kahn |
| LAIDTOREST | Fri May 17, 1996 | Buried | J. DiPietro |
| MOLDIEST | Sat Apr 1, 1995 | Most outmoded | Fred Piscop |
| NEWSTEAM | Thu Jun 18, 2020 | Group working with an anchor | Ricky Cruz |
| OFFENSIVEREMARK | Fri May 18, 2012 | It may be acknowledged with a slap | Allan E. Parrish |
| OPHTHALMO | Fri Nov 10, 1995 | Introduction for an eye doctor | Bryant White |
| PERCODAN | Sun Jul 10, 2016 | Painkiller first sold in 1950 | Patrick Berry |
| PINELOGS | Sat Aug 26, 2023 | Aromatic fire feeders | Adrian Johnson |
| PRYAWAY | Fri Apr 10, 2020 | Extricate with leverage | Byron Walden |
| QUIRKILY | Sun Dec 31, 2006 | In an odd way | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| REPUTATIONS | Fri Jul 17, 2020 | Names | Rich Proulx |
| RUEMCCLANAHAN | Tue Feb 6, 2001 | Blanche Devereaux in TV's "The Golden Girls" | Sherry O. Blackard |
| SICARIO | Fri Apr 5, 2019 | 2015 crime film with Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro | Ryan McCarty |
| SINCLAIROIL | Sat Feb 26, 2005 | Company with a brontosaur logo | Jim Page |
| TEHACHAPI | Sun Jul 12, 1998 | Town SE of Bakersfield, Calif. | Henry Hook |
| THEREDCARPET | Sun Oct 10, 2021 | <em>Star Trek</em> | Brandon Koppy |
| TONGUELASHING | Fri Apr 22, 1994 | Dressing-down | A.J. Santora |
| TRIMWAIST | Fri Jul 25, 2008 | Goal of middle management? | John Farmer |
| WAVEFORM | Tue Apr 10, 2012 | Repeating shape on an oscilloscope | Gregory Philip Butler |
| WESTLA | Sat Aug 28, 2021 | It abuts Santa Monica, for short | Julian Lim |
| YOGISM | Sun Feb 12, 2023 | Tranquil discipline | Christina Iverson and Samuel A. Donaldson |