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 50,573 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACIDTAB | Mon Sep 30, 2024 | Dose for an LSD trip | Alexander Liebeskind |
| ALONGS | Tue Jun 7, 1994 | Take- _____ (accompaniers) | Ernie Furtado |
| ANTILEAGUER | Sat Mar 12, 2005 | 1920's isolationist | Byron Walden |
| BETSYWETSY | Fri Mar 21, 2008 | Doll that was once a going thing | Peter A. Collins |
| BUZZARD | Fri Feb 7, 2003 | Codger | Michael Shteyman |
| BYEWEEKS | Wed Aug 1, 2018 | When N.F.L. teams don't have to play | Sande Milton and Jeff Chen |
| COMESACROSS | Sun Nov 24, 2024 | Finds | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| COMMISSAR | Fri Sep 30, 1994 | High-up apparatchik | Matt Gaffney |
| COVERSEVERYBASE | Mon Apr 7, 2008 | Takes care of all possibilities | Randall J. Hartman |
| CRIBBAGEBOARD | Tue Apr 11, 2006 | Peg's place? | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| DISAGREES | Thu Nov 16, 2023 | Is a no-body? | Paolo Pasco |
| FOREWORDS | Mon Aug 1, 1994 | Preambles | Thomas W. Schier |
| GANDOLFINI | Mon Sep 17, 2018 | James ___, portrayer of Tony Soprano on "The Sopranos" | Caitlin Reid |
| GLADDER | Wed Nov 13, 2024 | In a better frame of mind | Todd Gross |
| ICECREAMSOCIAL | Mon Sep 19, 2022 | *"Cool" get-together with cones and scoops | Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| INTERSTELLARDUST | Fri Jul 27, 2007 | Nebulous stuff | John R. Conrad |
| LAZIEST | Thu Sep 8, 2022 | Least likely to get up from the couch, say | Matthew Stock |
| LITTLESAINTNICK | Wed Aug 31, 2011 | 1963 Beach Boys hit | Peter A. Collins |
| MATHTEACHER | Thu May 5, 2022 | Someone well versed in this puzzle's theme | Adam Wagner |
| MINGO | Wed Aug 10, 2011 | Iroquoian people | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| NONEOFTHEABOVE | Mon Sep 21, 1998 | D, often | Matthew Lees |
| OPTICKS | Sun Sep 25, 2022 | Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light | Meghan Morris |
| PIZZACRUST | Sat Oct 26, 2013 | Domino's bottom? | Barry C. Silk |
| PRESSCORPS | Sun Jul 25, 1999 | Hounding group, often | Charles M. Deber |
| REFILLED | Tue Jul 22, 2014 | Like gas tanks and many prescriptions, again and again | Joel Fagliano |
| REPEATOFFENDERS | Thu Jul 30, 2009 | Record holders? (and a punny hint to this puzzle's anomalies) | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| SANDSTORM | Thu May 23, 1996 | Desert worry | M. E. Brindamour |
| SCOFFAT | Thu Aug 2, 2007 | Jeer | Robert Dillman |
| SCRAPEDBY | Fri May 21, 2010 | Made ends meet somehow | Patrick Berry |
| SECURITYCOUNCIL | Sat Aug 29, 2009 | Russia, China and France are in it | Doug Peterson |
| SISTERSISTER | Sun May 8, 2022 | 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry | Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer |
| SPEAKSONESPIECE | Wed Feb 12, 2025 | Talks frankly | Philip Koski |
| SPENDTHENIGHT | Tue Nov 19, 2024 | Have a sleepover | Erik Agard |
| STABINTHEBACK | Tue Mar 11, 2025 | Betray | Jared Cappel |
| TREEFUL | Wed Dec 27, 1995 | Whole lot of apples | David J. Kahn |
| TROUBADOUR | Fri Nov 20, 2020 | Love poet of old | Kameron Austin Collins |
| UNCLETOM | Sun Mar 19, 2006 | Aunt Chloe's husband, in literature | Michael Shteyman |
| UPSETALERT | Sat Dec 6, 2025 | Warning preceding some "madness" during March Madness | Marshal Herrmann |
| WALLFLOWERS | Wed May 1, 2024 | Shy sorts, with a hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter | Juliana Tringali Golden |
| WORDOFTHEYEAR | Tue Nov 7, 2017 | Annual American Dialect Society award given to seven answers in this puzzle | Greg Poulos |