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 50,248 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACUTES | Tue Dec 10, 1996 | Accents in "resume" | D. Niles |
| AHEADOFSCHEDULE | Sat Aug 18, 2007 | Early | Jim Page |
| AIROFFENSIVE | Thu Oct 29, 2009 | Series of sorties | Joe Krozel |
| ALDEBARAN | Sun Jan 29, 1995 | Brilliant orange star of the northern sky | Bryant White |
| BELIEVING | Sat Jul 8, 2000 | Religious | Randolph Ross |
| BETELNUTS | Fri Dec 23, 1994 | Tropical kernels | Frank A. Longo |
| BIGUPSET | Sat Apr 6, 2024 | Cinderella's calling card | Byron Walden |
| BLACKBART | Thu Oct 20, 2011 | Famously polite Old West stagecoach robber | Patrick Berry |
| BYALONGSHOT | Tue Nov 12, 2019 | Easily | Gabrielle Friedman and Jakob Weisblat |
| COLERIDGE | Sat Jan 15, 2011 | "Frost at Midnight" poet | Barry C. Silk |
| FEMALELEAD | Tue Aug 15, 2023 | Feature of "Alien," "Mulan" or "Clueless" … or what the answer to each starred clue has? | Malaika Handa |
| FUNNYMONEY | Mon Feb 13, 2006 | Counterfeit cash | Janet R. Bender |
| GODPAPA | Sat May 10, 2003 | Drosselmeier's title in "The Nutcracker" | Bob Klahn |
| GRATUITOUS | Wed Apr 25, 2018 | Provided but not asked for | Adam G. Perl |
| GROWSUP | Wed Aug 5, 2009 | Matures | Donna S. Levin |
| GUPPIES | Fri Sep 11, 1998 | Rainbow fish | Harvey Estes |
| HAVINGACOW | Fri Jan 1, 1999 | Reacting hysterically | Joe DiPietro |
| HOWAR | Thu May 29, 1997 | Author Barbara of "Laughing All the Way" | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| HOWTIMEFLIES | Fri Apr 21, 2006 | "It's getting late" | Manny Nosowsky |
| INEEDALIFT | Fri Nov 29, 2019 | "My car's out of commission" | Sam Buchbinder |
| MOVESASIDE | Sat Jun 26, 2004 | Gets out of the way | Byron Walden |
| NATIONALLEAGUER | Tue Nov 15, 2016 | Cub, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| NEVERDIE | Sat Jan 28, 1995 | "Old soldiers ___..." | Randolph Ross |
| OBTRUDER | Mon Jan 24, 1994 | Busybody | Janie Lyons |
| OKAYDEAR | Wed Mar 20, 2019 | "As you wish," to a spouse | Erik Agard, Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| OOLONGTEA | Sat Jan 16, 2016 | Twinings product | Sean Dobbin |
| PANCAKES | Sat Jan 13, 1996 | Flattens informally | J. Page |
| PLAYSFORPEANUTS | Sun Feb 17, 2002 | Theatrical works featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, etc.? | Joe DiPietro |
| RATTLING | Sat Mar 14, 2009 | Fazing | Barry C. Silk |
| REFORMATION | Tue Oct 31, 2017 | See 17-Across | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| SEMIAXIS | Sat Apr 2, 2005 | One of a pair in an ellipse | Byron Walden |
| SHOWERSTALL | Wed Jul 12, 1995 | Bridal party postponement? | Robert Malinow |
| STORIETTE | Sat Feb 13, 1999 | Brief tale | David J. Kahn |
| TASTEMAKER | Thu Mar 2, 2023 | Influencer, as with fashion | Malaika Handa |
| TAUTSHIP | Tue Aug 13, 1996 | What a strict captain runs | R. Hughes |
| THECIA | Sun Aug 14, 1994 | Spook house? | Deborah Kathryn Trombley |
| THEPRAIRIE | Thu Jun 5, 2025 | Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series | Timothy Gaetz |
| THETUXEDO | Thu Jul 23, 2015 | Jackie Chan action film featuring a high-tech jacket | Timothy Polin |
| UNSTOPPED | Mon Aug 23, 1999 | Like a drain after a drain cleaner | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| YATHINK | Sat Dec 10, 2011 | "Isn't that obvious?!" | Corey Rubin |