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 50,346 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARRESTERS | Sat Jul 8, 1995 | Collar makers | Randolph Ross |
| BAVERAGE | Sat Jun 27, 2020 | 3.0 | Ryan Mccarty |
| CURRICULUMVITAE | Tue May 30, 1995 | Caesar's résumé? | Richard Hughes |
| DONALBAIN | Sat Jan 22, 1994 | Son of Duncan in "Macbeth" | Raymond Hamel |
| DONTWORRYBABY | Tue Jul 1, 2014 | Reassurance from the Beach Boys, 1964 | Gary Cee |
| DOWNINTHEDUMPS | Tue Aug 20, 1996 | Blue | S. Spadaccini |
| FOURTEENPOINTS | Wed Apr 20, 2016 | Proposal of Woodrow Wilson ... or what the scoring values of 18-, 27-, 55- and 66-Across total | Tom McCoy |
| GEOGRAPHY | Thu Mar 3, 2005 | Place settings, collectively | Byron Walden |
| GETMOVING | Sun Oct 15, 2017 | "Hurry up!" | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| GIVERS | Sat Jul 1, 1995 | Angels | Eileen Lexau |
| GOINGAHEAD | Sat May 31, 2008 | Proceeding | Robert H. Wolfe |
| HAGER | Sat Sep 29, 2012 | Jenna Bush ___, former first daughter | Joe DiPietro |
| HOMERULE | Sat Aug 27, 2011 | What the Faroe Islands were granted in 1948 | Ashton Anderson |
| JULIEANDREWS | Sun Mar 1, 2015 | Star of 118-Across | Finn Vigeland |
| KELVIN | Sun Oct 16, 2016 | Temperature unit | Tom McCoy |
| KINGOFBEASTS | Mon Nov 15, 2004 | Lion, by tradition | Alison Donald |
| KISSUP | Tue May 30, 2000 | Act the toady, slangily | Fred Piscop |
| LETTERPRESS | Mon Dec 6, 2021 | Gutenberg invention | Emily Rourke |
| LIGHTPENS | Thu Feb 16, 2012 | Implements for "writing" on computer screens | Jim Page |
| LIVELARGE | Sat Sep 20, 2025 | Spare no indulgence | Katie Hoody |
| LOREM | Thu Sep 7, 2023 | ___ ipsum (placeholder text) | Ryan Patrick Smith |
| MADEADIFFERENCE | Sun Aug 27, 2017 | Contributed to the world | Jeff Chen |
| NEEL | Fri Aug 26, 1994 | 1970 Nobel physicist Louis | Timothy S. Lewis |
| OCEANOGRAPHERS | Fri Sep 25, 2020 | Ones diving right into their work? | Rachel Fabi |
| OLIVERREED | Sat Jun 25, 2016 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director | Kameron Austin Collins |
| PERFECTCUBE | Tue Sep 4, 2012 | 62-Across to a mathematician | Barry Franklin and Sara Kaplan |
| PODAL | Sun Jul 2, 1995 | Of the foot | Alex K. Justin |
| RADIOGRAM | Wed Aug 4, 1999 | Ship-to-shore communication | Richard Silvestri |
| REVALUE | Sun Nov 6, 2016 | Adjust, as a currency | Joe DiPietro |
| RINGSOUT | Fri Dec 8, 1995 | Peals | Frances Hansen |
| SADDLEBAG | Sat Apr 27, 2013 | Trail rider's accessory | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| SLAPSAROUND | Sun Aug 14, 1994 | 'Smiler's goal? | Deborah Kathryn Trombley |
| SOUPTONUTS | Fri Jun 9, 2023 | It's all-inclusive | Robyn Weintraub |
| SPIRALLED | Tue Jun 17, 2025 | Went through the air like a perfectly thrown football | Tarun Krishnamurthy |
| STOWING | Sat Feb 22, 2003 | Doing warehouse work | Dana Motley |
| STRIFES | Sun Nov 28, 2010 | Bitter quarrels | Jeremy Newton |
| TMZLIVE | Sat Feb 23, 2019 | Web and TV broadcast about celebrities | Sam Ezersky |
| TOOTLED | Fri Nov 3, 1995 | Played the flute | David J. Kahn |
| TRACTIONENGINES | Fri Jun 8, 2012 | Road locomotives | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| TRIMMEST | Fri Apr 19, 2002 | In superlative shape | Elizabeth C. Gorski |