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 50,811 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMTUNER | Thu Dec 7, 2017 | Radio component | Dan Schoenholz |
| BANDSTANDBANDS | Thu May 23, 1996 | Some outdoor musical combos | M. E. Brindamour |
| BERRIED | Sun Nov 18, 2012 | Picked some fruit | Timothy Polin |
| BUTTERFLYBALLOT | Fri Dec 8, 2000 | Cause of some confusion | Bob Klahn |
| CARDINALRED | Sat Aug 13, 2016 | Deep scarlet shade | Patrick Berry |
| CHICKENFINGERS | Wed Jun 7, 1995 | Bar food | Martin Schneider |
| CLAUDIUS | Wed Mar 7, 2018 | Mocker of Hamlet's "unmanly grief" | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| CRISPYTACO | Sat Feb 5, 2011 | Food that makes a crunch | Mark Diehl |
| DEADLIER | Wed Apr 22, 2026 | Like a black mamba vis-à-vis a python | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| DORMY | Sat Nov 29, 1997 | In golf, ahead by as many holes as are left to be played | Rich Norris |
| FATTIRE | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Beer brand with a bicycle in its logo | Sam Ezersky |
| GARANIMALS | Sat Nov 7, 2020 | Mix-and-match children's clothing brand | Kameron Austin Collins and Paolo Pasco |
| GEORGEWILL | Fri Sep 1, 2017 | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" | Patrick Berry |
| GETSSORE | Sun Apr 12, 2009 | Becomes peeved | Eric Berlin |
| HOPEANDCROSBY | Tue Jun 23, 2015 | The film's headliners | Jules P. Markey |
| INCUSTODY | Wed Feb 19, 2020 | Behind bars | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| IWONTDOIT | Fri Oct 28, 2016 | "You can't make me!" | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| KETOSIS | Tue Apr 30, 2024 | Metabolic state on a low-carb, high-fat diet | Michèle Govier |
| LEMENU | Sun Jul 19, 2015 | Old frozen dinner brand | Tom McCoy |
| LESSERAPE | Sun May 7, 2000 | Gibbon, for one | Patrick D. Berry |
| LETTUCEWRAPS | Sun May 4, 2025 | Bunless cookout entrees | Brandon Koppy |
| LOOKIEHERE | Fri Jan 19, 2024 | "Well, well, well!" | Jacob McDermott |
| MADEWORSE | Mon Jan 22, 2007 | Degraded | C. W. Stewart |
| MIXEDBAGS | Tue Jun 11, 2013 | Assortments ... or what you'll find in 17-, 25-, 30-, 44- and 50-Across? | Pete Muller |
| MONDIEU | Sun Mar 23, 1997 | Kin of "Sacre bleu!" | Bryant White |
| NOTATOY | Sun Jul 19, 2020 | Choking hazard label | Wyna Liu |
| OFEVE | Wed May 22, 2002 | "The Three Faces ___" | Sherry O. Blackard |
| PAPERER | Sun Jan 15, 2006 | One who works on walls | Richard Silvestri |
| PLOVERS | Wed Apr 24, 1996 | Shorebirds | G. Dean |
| PRETREATMENTS | Wed Oct 31, 2007 | Stain looseners on washday | Ken Stern |
| SANDOVAL | Sat Dec 3, 2016 | Pablo ___, 2012 World Series M.V.P. nicknamed "The 44-Down" | Jason Flinn |
| SARABANDE | Thu Sep 22, 1994 | Stately 13-Down dance | George Quincy |
| SISISENOR | Mon Jun 22, 2009 | Emphatic south-of-the-border assent | Fred Piscop |
| STARSIN | Fri Aug 25, 2023 | Headlines | Rafael Musa |
| SYPHON | Sun Feb 26, 2012 | Draw (off): Var. | Daniel A. Finan |
| TESTOFTIME | Sun Apr 22, 2018 | What the classics stand | Ross Trudeau |
| THESHAPEOFWATER | Mon Nov 19, 2018 | "Fluid" 2017 film? | Jim Hilger |
| WAYABOVE | Thu Feb 25, 2016 | Towering over | Joel Fagliano |
| WICKEDGOOD | Tue Jul 14, 2020 | Positive, albeit terse, review of a 2003 Broadway musical? | Stella Zawistowski |
| WRONGLY | Fri Feb 8, 2013 | Against all standards of decency | Barry C. Silk |