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 50,871 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMSTATION | Sun Jan 27, 2013 | Source of talk, often | Jeff Chen |
| AUCONTRAIRE | Fri May 14, 2021 | "You thought wrong!" | Yacob Yonas |
| AVAILABLECREDIT | Sat May 18, 2013 | What you may charge with | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BAILIWICK | Thu May 7, 1998 | Domain | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| BALLYARD | Thu Jan 30, 2014 | Home is one corner in it | Dan Schoenholz |
| BAMBOOS | Thu Oct 31, 1996 | Furniture materials | L. Sidway |
| BARRELHOUSEJAZZ | Wed Jul 21, 2021 | Raucous music style similar to boogie-woogie | Alex Vratsanos |
| BRADLEE | Sat Dec 17, 2016 | Ben ___, legendary Washington Post editor | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| CAMRON | Tue Dec 29, 2015 | Grammy-nominated rapper with the 2002 hit "Oh Boy" | Jeff Stillman |
| CROPPER | Wed Nov 4, 1998 | Tenant farmer | Rich Norris |
| CUDDLEPUDDLE | Sat Mar 26, 2022 | Horizontal group hug session | Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern |
| DEERHUNTER | Thu Aug 16, 2018 | 64-/65-Across work of 1978, with "The" | Alan Arbesfeld |
| DOZINGOFF | Sun Apr 29, 2007 | Exhibiting ennui | Henry Hook |
| EMBELLISHER | Thu Apr 24, 1997 | Decorator, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| FINDCLOSURE | Wed Jun 22, 2022 | Accept and let go of something ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues | Kate Hawkins |
| FOXINSOCKS | Fri May 23, 2003 | Dr. Seuss title | Dave Tuller |
| GRIPPERS | Thu Feb 10, 2011 | Tongs, e.g. | Derek Bowman |
| ILLREPUTE | Sat Jul 13, 2024 | Notoriety | Eli Cotham |
| LOBSTERBISQUE | Tue Dec 29, 1998 | Bright-red unglazed china? | Susan Harrington Smith |
| LOUTISH | Wed Jul 6, 2005 | Stupid and ill-mannered | Raymond Hamel |
| MAJORBARBARA | Sun Dec 10, 2000 | 1905 Shaw play | Rich Norris |
| MENTALGYMNASTICS | Sat Jan 22, 2022 | Cognitive contortions | Daniel Okulitch |
| METAMORPHOSIS | Tue Feb 16, 2010 | Larva-to-adult transition | Paul Hunsberger |
| MOUNTVESUVIUS | Wed Oct 23, 2019 | Famous erupter of A.D. 79 | Jennifer Nutt |
| PETTYOFFICERS | Mon Aug 16, 2004 | Boatswains, e.g. | Joy C. Frank |
| PHOEBUS | Wed Sep 24, 1997 | Apollo as god of the sun | Wayne Robert Williams |
| PIGOUTON | Sun Aug 13, 2023 | Stuff oneself with | Manaal Mohammed |
| RARESUP | Sat Nov 26, 2016 | Stands on the hind legs, in dialect | Paolo Pasco |
| RIDESIDESADDLE | Thu Jan 27, 2022 | Go on horseback à la Lady Godiva | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| ROADRASH | Sat Oct 4, 2025 | Scrapes from a motorcycle fall | Ryan McCarty |
| ROCKGARDENS | Tue Jun 30, 2015 | Comedian cultivates flowers? | Susan Gelfand |
| SETTINGUPSHOP | Sun Feb 3, 2008 | Establishing a business | Matt Ginsberg |
| SNUGS | Thu Sep 13, 2001 | Lies comfortably | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SUBVOCE | Fri Apr 20, 2018 | Under the specified word, in a reference book | Joel Fagliano |
| THEDOGS | Thu Jul 15, 2004 | Things can go to them | Roy Leban |
| THYROIDS | Sat Dec 7, 2019 | Energy regulators in the body | Kevin G. Der and Erik Agard |
| VESTEDINTEREST | Thu Jul 1, 2004 | Stake | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| VODKAGIMLET | Fri Sep 1, 2006 | Tart bar order | David Quarfoot |
| WATERMAINS | Thu Nov 17, 2016 | Hookups for hydrants | Timothy Polin and Joe Krozel |
| WITHINEARSHOT | Fri Jul 31, 2009 | Relatively close | Mike Nothnagel |