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 50,357 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIGRETTE | Sun Sep 9, 2001 | Feathered head ornament | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| AIRONTHEGSTRING | Tue Nov 21, 2023 | Bach piece whose title sounds a bit risque | Kevin Christian and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| BASTERS | Fri Oct 19, 2012 | Turkey Day utensils | Patrick Berry |
| BECAUSEICAN | Fri Jul 17, 2015 | "Reason" that doesn't explain anything | Paolo Pasco |
| BROKENHOME | Mon Jun 7, 2010 | Family divided by divorce | Lynn Lempel |
| DRIVEUPAWALL | Sun Mar 8, 2020 | Exasperate | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| GENOAS | Sun May 9, 1999 | Racing jibs | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| GOBBLER | Wed Sep 4, 2002 | Tom turkey | Eric Berlin |
| GOTOUT | Wed Mar 23, 2011 | Was released | Will Nediger |
| HEELFLIPS | Sun Dec 24, 2023 | Skateboard tricks started by kicking with the back foot | Drew Schmenner |
| INFOBOX | Sat Jul 12, 2025 | Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia | Katie Hoody |
| INYOUGO | Thu Jul 3, 2025 | Comment that might be said with a push | Adam Wagner |
| JUMPEDIN | Sat Aug 23, 2025 | Joined enthusiastically | Ryan Judge |
| LEANMEAT | Sun Feb 6, 2011 | Emu, e.g., to a chef | David J. Kahn |
| MAXIMUMSTRENGTH | Mon Jun 17, 1996 | Ad puff | S. L. Robbins |
| MISGAUGES | Thu Feb 20, 1997 | Doesn't estimate correctly | D. J. Kahn |
| NFLD | Sun Aug 8, 2004 | Can. province | Bill Zais |
| NOUVELLE | Thu Oct 26, 2000 | Kind of cuisine | Patrick Berry |
| OCCULTISM | Sat Jan 21, 2012 | Kabbalah | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| PERCYBYSSHESHELLEY | Thu Oct 16, 2014 | "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" poet | John Farmer |
| POINTEDTO | Thu Feb 13, 2003 | Indicated | Joe DiPietro |
| POLITICALSYSTEM | Fri Jan 19, 2001 | Monarchy or parliamentary democracy | Joe DiPietro |
| POWERTRIPS | Sun Apr 10, 2022 | Outbursts of megalomania | David W. Tuffs |
| PROPELS | Sat Oct 10, 2020 | Makes go | Brian Thomas |
| RATCH | Wed Apr 11, 2007 | Toothed bar | Bruce Adams |
| REFINERS | Sat Jan 31, 2004 | Employees in the sugar industry | Byron Walden |
| RHETTBUTLER | Sat Apr 25, 2020 | Speaker of the #1 quote on A.F.I.'s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes | Andrew J. Ries |
| SHRI | Sat Jun 22, 1996 | Mister, in Madras: Var. | B. White |
| SOPHIESCHOICE | Tue Oct 29, 1996 | 1982 Meryl Streep film | R. J. Hartman |
| SPHERULE | Tue Jul 1, 1997 | Small ball | Fred Piscop |
| SURESIGN | Thu Jun 15, 2006 | Unambiguous indication | Adam Cohen |
| SUSPENDERS | Tue Oct 21, 2003 | Garters, to Brits | John Underwood |
| TARDO | Tue Apr 18, 2000 | Slow, in music | Myles Callum |
| THEHOTSEAT | Sat Aug 21, 2004 | A bad situation, slangily | Patrick Berry |
| THIRDWORLD | Tue Jul 11, 2000 | Unindustrialized | Nick Grivas and Nancy Salomon |
| TOPANGA | Thu Jul 3, 2025 | State park in the Santa Monica Mountains | Adam Wagner |
| UPANDQUIT | Sat Apr 22, 2023 | Abruptly resign | Byron Walden |
| UZOADUBA | Fri Dec 7, 2018 | Emmy-winning "Orange Is the New Black" actress | Sam Trabucco |
| VERYMILD | Sat Feb 7, 2015 | Like American cheese | Byron Walden |
| WELLITSNOWONDER | Sat Sep 13, 2025 | "I mean, duh!" | Alex Jiang |