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 50,639 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSAULTS | Fri Sep 20, 2019 | Batteries | Luke Vaughn |
| BANNEDBOOKS | Fri Jan 12, 2024 | Merriam-Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and "Where's Waldo?," once, surprisingly | Hemant Mehta |
| BAYONETING | Sat Feb 9, 2019 | Taking a stab at? | Ryan McCarty |
| BLUNDERBUSS | Mon Aug 25, 2014 | Muzzle-loading firearm | Greg Johnson |
| CALASH | Sat Nov 10, 2007 | Light carriage with a folding top | Dana Motley |
| CARYGRANT | Mon Aug 19, 2002 | "Arsenic and Old Lace" star, 1944 | Lynn Lempel |
| CENTRALDIVISION | Mon Oct 23, 2000 | N.F.C. or A.F.C. subgroup | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg |
| DELUSORY | Fri Oct 7, 2005 | Misleading | Manny Nosowsky |
| DRCARTER | Sat May 13, 2006 | Noah Wyle's "ER" role | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ENTERSINTO | Thu Dec 16, 2004 | Starts, as an agreement | Mike Torch |
| FBICHIEF | Sat Dec 14, 2019 | Robert Mueller, once | Ryan McCarty |
| FOOTMODEL | Mon Aug 30, 2021 | One who might have a contract with a sandal manufacturer | Brooke Husic |
| GILDALIVE | Tue Dec 15, 2015 | 1980 one-woman comedy produced by Lorne Michaels | David Levinson Wilk |
| GLUEDTOTHETV | Mon Nov 6, 2023 | Where your eyes might stay during a suspenseful scene ... or the only place you'll find the "eyes" in this puzzle | Desirée Penner and Jeff Sinnock |
| GOTAMATCH | Sat May 1, 2010 | Light seeker's question | Paula Gamache |
| INQUEST | Mon Mar 31, 2014 | Official investigation | Robert Cirillo |
| INSENSATE | Sat Nov 9, 1996 | Numb | F. Longo |
| KNOWBYNAME | Mon Jan 11, 2016 | Be familiar with without having met | Howard Barkin |
| LABORPROTEST | Wed Apr 11, 2012 | Strike | David Kwong |
| LICENSEES | Tue Oct 22, 2013 | Royalty payers, say | Kevan Choset |
| LONGHISTORY | Wed Oct 2, 2019 | What a civilization like India or Egypt has | Mangesh Ghogre |
| METRONORTH | Sat Jan 19, 2008 | New York City transportation option | David J. Kahn |
| MUTOMBO | Wed Apr 5, 2017 | Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dikembe ___ | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| NIBBLERS | Wed Feb 6, 2019 | Dainty eaters | Queena Mewers and Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ORIGAMIS | Mon Dec 18, 1995 | Japanese paper figures | Randall J. Hartman |
| ORNAN | Wed Dec 1, 1999 | ___ the Jebusite, of I and II Chronicles | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon |
| PAGANISM | Thu Apr 21, 2005 | Primitive practice | Patrick Merrell |
| PRENATALLY | Sat Jul 27, 1996 | Before birth | F. Longo |
| RARESTAMPDEALER | Sat May 13, 2017 | One likely to have a large collection of albums | Jeff Chen |
| REALMADRID | Sat Dec 16, 2017 | Spanish football powerhouse | Sam Ezersky |
| RIVERDELTA | Tue Jun 18, 2013 | *Fertile area where a stream empties into an ocean | Tim Croce |
| SOOTHSAY | Sat Jul 18, 2009 | Prophesy | Joe Krozel |
| SWASHBUCKLER | Wed Apr 21, 1999 | Errol Flynn kind of role | Mary E. Brindamour |
| SWEATDROPS | Mon Oct 19, 2020 | Nervousness, in the comics | Fred Piscop |
| TECTONICPLATE | Mon Oct 11, 2010 | Shifting piece of the earth's crust | Robert Fisher |
| THEBUSHES | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | Subject of 2004's best seller "American Dynasty" | Byron Walden |
| TRACII | Thu Sep 26, 2002 | Razor brand | Manny Nosowsky |
| TRAMWAYS | Thu Oct 31, 2002 | Peak-to-peak transports | Dave and Diane Epperson |
| UNREPS | Thu Mar 26, 2020 | Some diplomats working in N.Y.C. | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| WATERBIRDS | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Egrets and herons | Elizabeth C. Gorski |