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 50,695 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APPLAUDS | Fri Jun 27, 2014 | Celebrates wordlessly | Peter A. Collins |
| BASHERS | Sun Mar 31, 1996 | Severe critics | J. Savage |
| BIRTHPLACE | Fri May 26, 1995 | Origin | Randolph Ross |
| BLUEWHALES | Fri Mar 17, 2023 | Ones calling across the ocean? | Carter Cobb |
| BODHITREE | Thu Jan 9, 2025 | Notable site of enlightenment | David P. Williams |
| BODYMASSINDEX | Tue Apr 14, 2020 | Calculation using height and weight | Joe Hansen |
| CAMERATRIPOD | Sat May 17, 2014 | Stand for a photo | Brad Wilber |
| CHURCHMOUSE | Fri Mar 18, 1994 | Symbol of poverty | Mark Diehl |
| COACTS | Sun Jan 29, 2006 | Works together | Rich Norris |
| COUGHEDUP | Thu Apr 6, 2000 | Paid reluctantly | Manny Nosowsky |
| DOWNSIZED | Tue Dec 6, 2005 | Smaller now, in corporate-speak | Nancy Salomon |
| EMPHASISMINE | Fri Feb 9, 2018 | [Can you believe they wrote this?!] | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ENARRIERE | Sat May 7, 1994 | Backward: Fr. | Bryant White |
| FORBETTERORFORWORSE | Sun Jun 23, 2013 | Comic strip about the Patterson family | Patrick Berry |
| FUNNYFARM | Thu Feb 26, 2015 | Crazy place? | Caleb Emmons |
| GLOWWORMS | Tue May 24, 2016 | Luminescent larvae | Jonathan Gersch |
| HOTMIKES | Tue Oct 2, 2012 | Feedback producers | Ethan Cooper |
| HUMONGOUS | Fri Oct 29, 2021 | Ginormous | Aimee Lucido |
| IDIS | Fri Feb 4, 1994 | African tyrant and namesakes | Joe Clonick |
| IMMATERIAL | Sat Dec 4, 2010 | Neither here nor there | Doug Peterson |
| JACKSONKENTUCKY | Mon Feb 17, 1997 | 41339 | R. Hughes |
| KEVINJONAS | Sun Mar 1, 2026 | Eldest of a trio of musical brothers | Matt Proulx and Jeffrey Martinovic |
| KRAMDENS | Sun Nov 11, 2018 | Ralph and Alice, on old TV | Eric Berlin |
| LETTRES | Wed Jul 27, 1994 | Belles -_____ | Nancy Joline |
| LONGEVITY | Tue Dec 29, 2020 | What the biblical Methuselah is famous for | Matthew Trout |
| LOOKINGUP | Fri Jun 25, 2021 | Showing promise | Scott Earl |
| MELISSAMCCARTHY | Fri Dec 9, 2016 | Player of Molly on "Mike & Molly" | David Phillips |
| MELTEDCHEESE | Tue Jun 29, 2004 | Fondue dip | Jim Hyres |
| MONTELL | Thu Sep 19, 2013 | R&B singer Jordan | Michael Blake |
| MORDRED | Sat Aug 20, 2022 | King Arthur's slayer | Hemant Mehta |
| NASI | Sat Jul 11, 1998 | Nose: Prefix | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| NEWCOLOSSUS | Mon Oct 28, 1996 | Poem inscribed on 17-Across, with "The" | R. Norris |
| OLDGOATS | Fri Jul 25, 2014 | Geezers | Peter A. Collins |
| REMITTED | Sat Dec 13, 1997 | Eased up | Richard Silvestri |
| RIPLEYSBELIEVEITORNOT | Sun May 22, 2011 | Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | Bob Klahn |
| TETRAHEDRON | Tue Oct 27, 2009 | Solid with four triangular faces | Chuck Deodene |
| THORNIER | Mon Apr 30, 2001 | Less solvable | Peter Gordon |
| VIABLE | Mon Jan 2, 2006 | Practical, as a plan | Linda Schechet Tucker |
| WRITTENIN | Sat Oct 5, 2019 | Added to the ballot, say | Trenton Charlson |
| YELLINGAT | Tue Sep 15, 2020 | Berating at high volume | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |