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 50,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMVET | Tue Feb 17, 2009 | W.W. II-era G.I., e.g. | Kristian House |
| BLAZED | Mon Oct 28, 1996 | Burned brightly | R. Norris |
| BRIBERIES | Sat Jun 14, 2008 | Boodlers' acts | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CA | Thu Dec 12, 2019 | See 34-Across | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CHRYSALIS | Thu Apr 18, 2019 | Where a 17-Down becomes a 23-Across | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CORNKERNELS | Mon Apr 24, 2023 | Edible parts of an ear | Emily Carroll |
| DIMPAST | Sun Mar 17, 2013 | Barely remembered days of old | J. R. Leopold |
| DOGSLEDS | Wed Mar 3, 1999 | Iditarod runners | Rich Norris |
| DRIPPAN | Sun Sep 29, 2024 | Oil catcher in the kitchen | Joe Deeney |
| ETHNICCLEANSING | Fri Jun 6, 2008 | Heinous war crime | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| EVAMENDES | Tue Dec 6, 2022 | "Girl in Progress" star with a line of cosmetics | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu |
| FABLED | Mon May 2, 1994 | Fictitious | James L. Beatty |
| FACIALFEATURES | Tue Nov 1, 2005 | Full-length films shot at a day spa? | Sarah Keller |
| FORKOVER | Thu Mar 28, 2013 | Pay | Randolph Ross |
| GETITRIGHT | Fri Nov 2, 2012 | Not make a mistake on something | Derek Bowman |
| GLEASONS | Sat Jan 11, 2014 | Renowned boxing gym in Brooklyn | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GLOTTIS | Thu Sep 20, 2018 | Opening between the vocal cords | Sam Ezersky |
| GOATSKIN | Sun Jun 15, 2003 | Flask material | Cathy Millhauser |
| HAIRSPLITTERS | Sun Apr 11, 1999 | Pedants | Matt Gaffney |
| HEADCOLDS | Sun Dec 4, 2011 | NyQuil targets | Kelsey Blakley |
| JUNEHAVOC | Wed Mar 3, 1999 | "Brewster's Millions" actress, 1945 | Rich Norris |
| KINKSHAME | Fri Aug 9, 2024 | Stigmatize sexual preferences, in modern lingo | Hemant Mehta |
| LAMPED | Sat Nov 26, 2016 | Clobbered, in British slang | Paolo Pasco |
| LICEY | Fri Jan 4, 2008 | Tigres del ___, Dominican team that has won the Caribbean World Series nine times | Raymond C. Young |
| MALODORS | Mon Nov 14, 1994 | Nose offenders | Sidney L. Robbins |
| MCGRIDDLES | Sat Dec 31, 2022 | Fast-food fare in which two pancakes form a sandwich | Billy Bratton |
| MENSROOM | Mon Oct 11, 1999 | Public facility | Gregory E. Paul |
| OLDHABITS | Mon Jun 29, 2009 | Things that die hard | Paula Gamache |
| ONEALLTIE | Wed Mar 13, 2019 | 1-1 | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| ORANGEWINE | Sun Apr 14, 2002 | Fermented beverage used as an aperitif | David J. Kahn |
| POKEBOWL | Thu Dec 26, 2024 | Hawaiian dish with cubed fish | Ella Dershowitz |
| PUSHESON | Sun Jan 4, 2026 | Perseveres | Gene Louise De Vera |
| RECANES | Sun Feb 9, 1997 | Fixes, as furniture | D. Niles |
| SEARINGLY | Sat Aug 26, 1995 | So hot as to burn | Joe DiPietro |
| SEEDINESS | Sun Dec 14, 1997 | Skid row look | Nancy Salomon |
| THEWRIGHTBROTHERS | Thu May 26, 2011 | Newsmakers of 1903 | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| USEPLAINENGLISH | Tue Apr 12, 2005 | Avoid technobabble | Nancy Salomon |
| WARWORN | Fri Jul 12, 2013 | Like Europe in 1945 | Matt Ginsberg |
| WRITTENIN | Sat Oct 5, 2019 | Added to the ballot, say | Trenton Charlson |
| YAWNERS | Sun Feb 2, 2003 | They're boring | Mark Danna |