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 50,371 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABCB | Sun Apr 28, 2019 | Rhyme scheme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BIKERCHICK | Sat Jul 5, 2014 | Woman in a leather jacket, maybe | David Steinberg |
| BYLAND | Thu Apr 22, 2004 | One of Paul Revere's message options | Daniel C. Bryant |
| CAMPERVAN | Wed Jul 15, 2020 | Mobile home? | Lee Higbie and Jeff Chen |
| CATHAIRS | Sat Jan 30, 2010 | Allergy source | Mark Diehl |
| CHAFING | Mon Jul 17, 2017 | Rubbing the wrong way? | Tom McCoy |
| CONSPIRACY | Fri Nov 28, 1997 | See 19-Across | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| DANCELESSON | Sat Jun 8, 2019 | Step-by-step instructions? | Andrew J. Ries |
| DORISLEE | Mon Jul 25, 1994 | Neoprimitive American artist | Albert J. Klaus |
| EDISONNJ | Thu Oct 8, 1998 | 08818 | Alan Arbesfeld |
| FLUTESOLO | Fri Feb 9, 2024 | Wind up alone? | Christina Iverson |
| HEATHLEDGER | Mon Aug 17, 2009 | 2008 | Mike Buckley |
| HELLTOTHENO | Fri Jun 30, 2023 | "As frickin' if!" | Carly Schuna |
| ILSES | Fri Aug 30, 1996 | Pianist Von Alpenheim et al. | A. J. Santora |
| INTHEVAULT | Tue Jul 20, 2021 | Stored deeply and securely | Sam Buchbinder |
| KINO | Thu Sep 21, 1995 | Movie theater, in Europe | Chuck Deodene |
| LATENTPERIOD | Thu Oct 12, 2006 | Interval between stimulation and response | Dave Tuller |
| LAZINESS | Wed Jul 25, 2001 | Start of a quote | Richard Hughes |
| LOGINNAME | Sat Jun 9, 2012 | Access provider | David Quarfoot |
| LUPINES | Fri May 29, 1998 | Bluebonnets | Fred Piscop |
| MINIATUREPOODLE | Fri May 21, 1999 | Lap dog, maybe | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| MOLECULES | Sun Jan 28, 2024 | What's the matter? | Nathan Hasegawa |
| MORPHINE | Mon Sep 19, 2005 | Narcotic pain reliever | Timothy Powell |
| MORTA | Sat Sep 3, 1994 | One of the Roman Fates | Raymond Hamel |
| ONEFORME | Fri Apr 10, 2020 | Self-serving comment? | Byron Walden |
| ONESEATERS | Fri Sep 18, 2020 | Race cars, typically | Anne and Daniel Larsen |
| PREDATORY | Thu Feb 20, 2014 | Rapacious | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |
| REPRESENTATIVE | Wed Jul 17, 2019 | Politician that the voters [circled letters] to Congress | Ada Nicolle |
| ROADTOPERDITION | Mon Jun 14, 2010 | 2002 Tom Hanks/Paul Newman film | Mark Feldman |
| SHAHOFIRAN | Sun May 27, 2012 | Noted exile of 1979 | Byron Walden |
| SHOTSUBPAR | Wed Jan 9, 2013 | Did or didn't play a good round of golf? | David Ben-Merre |
| SLAMPOETRY | Fri Apr 29, 2016 | Grist for a war of words? | Andrew Kingsley |
| SNAZZIEST | Sun Dec 14, 2003 | Maximally chi-chi | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SNORTERS | Fri Oct 18, 1996 | Derisive ones | M. Gaffney |
| TASTETHIS | Sat Jul 13, 2024 | Sample offer | Eli Cotham |
| TIRERS | Thu Jun 29, 1995 | Ones who are getting weary | Matt Gaffney |
| TURINGTESTS | Thu Sep 7, 2023 | Assessments I would pass with flying colors — if I had anything to prove, which I don't, since I'm human | Ryan Patrick Smith |
| UPINTHESKY | Sat Feb 25, 2006 | Overhead | Henry Hook |
| VEGANDIET | Sun Aug 21, 2016 | Regimen adopted by Bill Clinton in 2010 | Kathy Matheson and Jeff Chen |
| WEBFOOT | Fri Nov 7, 2014 | Penguin part | Patrick Berry |