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 50,301 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARSMAGNA | Wed Nov 1, 2023 | 1545 treatise whose rearranged letters aptly suggest 17-, 26-, 44- and 59-Across | Steve Weyer |
| BITMAPS | Fri Mar 17, 2023 | Alternatives to GIFs | Carter Cobb |
| CADENZAS | Mon Dec 22, 2003 | Aria flourishes | Joy C. Frank |
| CONCEDINGDEFEAT | Sun Oct 12, 2025 | Waving the white flag, so to speak | Michael Schlossberg |
| COUSY | Mon May 13, 1996 | Basketball great Bob | S. L. Robbins |
| CUBANCIGAR | Sat Aug 9, 2014 | Bolívar, Cohiba or Juan López | Josh Knapp |
| CWM | Thu Sep 16, 1999 | Welsh valley | Bill Ballard |
| DIALMFORMURDER | Tue Aug 2, 1994 | 1954 Hitchcock hit | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| DIVIDEDCAPITALS | Thu Nov 3, 2005 | Title for this puzzle | Byron Walden |
| DORSO | Sun Mar 24, 1996 | Prefix with lateral | J. K. Brill |
| EVENASWESPEAK | Sat Dec 10, 2005 | Now | Henry Hook |
| GASGIANT | Mon Mar 20, 2017 | ExxonMobil? | Neil deGrasse Tyson and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| GORDITA | Sun Jan 3, 2021 | Stuffed and fried cornmeal pocket, in Mexican cuisine | Paolo Pasco |
| GRIZZLY | Wed Sep 8, 2010 | Yellowstone sighting | Tracy Gray |
| GROSSPROFIT | Sat Nov 1, 2014 | 33 - 21 | Trip Payne |
| HIGHSPOT | Fri Feb 6, 2009 | Climax | Frederick J. Healy |
| IGNOBLY | Fri Apr 11, 2003 | In a churlish manner | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| INAUGURALS | Sat Apr 26, 2014 | Office addresses? | Evan Birnholz |
| MARINESUB | Tue Dec 28, 2010 | Military sandwich? | Robert A. Doll |
| MILKFARM | Sat Jul 19, 1997 | Dairy | Robert H. Wolfe |
| PRANCERS | Mon Apr 9, 2007 | Lively horses | J. K. Hummel |
| PREWWI | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Like the time of Franz Ferdinand's reign | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| RAPINI | Sun Oct 12, 2014 | Broccoli-like vegetable | Pawel Fludzinski |
| RVING | Wed Apr 1, 2020 | Enjoying the great outdoors ... indoors | John Ficarra and Patrick Merrell |
| SECONDHONEYMOON | Mon Oct 21, 2019 | Romantic getaway for a married couple | Joe Deeney |
| SETTINGFREE | Sat Jun 10, 2023 | Liberating | John Hawksley |
| SHOEREPAIR | Thu Jul 9, 2009 | HOSE? | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| SHREDDEDWHEAT | Wed Feb 5, 2014 | Breakfast cereal ... or a hint to what's found in the answers to the four starred clues? | Tracy Gray |
| SOFTSPOT | Fri Jul 9, 2021 | Charming vulnerability | Robyn Weintraub |
| SPHAGNUM | Mon Jun 2, 1997 | Moss for potting plants | Gregory E. Paul |
| STAFFENTRANCE | Fri Apr 26, 2002 | Door that is not for visitors | Manny Nosowsky |
| SWEATSHOPS | Sat Jan 29, 2011 | Much of New York's Garment District, once | Ned White |
| SWIPER | Fri Mar 28, 2008 | Person lifting | Barry C. Silk |
| TAKETHEFALL | Fri Aug 1, 2014 | Be a patsy | Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern |
| TOKILLAMOCKINGBIRD | Sun Mar 20, 2011 | Chick lit book #5 (1960) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| TRYBEFOREYOUBUY | Mon Mar 29, 1999 | Advice for the impulsive consumer | Bill Ballard |
| TURNTOMUSH | Fri Jun 27, 2008 | Get all sentimental | Brad Wilber |
| WEDDINGCHAPEL | Sun Jan 1, 2017 | Hitching post? | Matthew Sewell |
| WINDOWSHADE | Thu Sep 18, 2008 | [See circles] | Mike Nothnagel |
| WOREDOWN | Fri Feb 18, 2022 | Nagged and nagged and nagged | Aimee Lucido |