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 50,404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDANTES | Fri Feb 11, 2000 | Some movements | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ATHLETICS | Sat Jan 26, 2013 | One side in the Bay Bridge Series rivalry | Raymond C. Young |
| BASEBALLINFIELD | Tue Mar 31, 1998 | DIAMOND | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BOATSMAN | Wed Aug 11, 1999 | Marina employee | Rich Norris |
| BOOKIES | Sun Nov 7, 2004 | Spread managers | Con Pederson |
| BUTTOCK | Tue Apr 22, 2014 | Half moon? | Ed Sessa |
| CARRIAGETRADE | Tue Apr 11, 2006 | Elite clientele | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| COCOONING | Wed Oct 6, 2021 | Doing dinner and a movie at home, say | Jules Markey |
| CORKTILE | Mon Oct 16, 2006 | Sound-absorbing flooring | Paula Gamache |
| CORPSEPOSE | Fri May 18, 2018 | Lying flat on one's back, in yoga | Ryan McCarty |
| DREYERS | Thu Jan 25, 2024 | Ice cream brand in West Coast supermarkets | Sam Ezersky |
| EATINGONESWORDS | Sat Oct 12, 2024 | Verbally backpedaling | Katie Hoody |
| FAXPRINTER | Thu Oct 30, 2003 | Dual-purpose office device | Patrick Berry |
| FIGHTERJETS | Tue Apr 21, 2020 | *Air Force aircraft | Andrew Kingsley |
| FRELENG | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Looney Tunes animator Friz | Joe DiPietro |
| GIRLI | Sun Feb 11, 2007 | "The ___ Left Behind Me" (Civil War tune) | Mark Feldman |
| HOMILIES | Fri Jul 8, 2005 | Mass communication? | Eric Berlin |
| IDESOF | Sun Apr 3, 2011 | Words before any month's name | Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg |
| INCIPIENT | Sat Sep 6, 1997 | Developing | Rich Norris |
| JAMESAMICHENER | Sun Jun 28, 2009 | "The World Is My Home" memoirist, 1991 | Barry C. Silk |
| LEADCOATED | Sat Sep 5, 2015 | Like some copper gutters | Byron Walden |
| MIDIRON | Sun Apr 30, 2023 | 5, 6 or 7, in golf | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| NASHRAMBLER | Mon Dec 27, 2010 | Car in the Playmates' 1958 hit "Beep Beep" | C. W. Stewart |
| OYSTERCRACKER | Sun Apr 6, 2014 | Inexperienced shucker, at times? | Patrick Berry |
| PETULANCE | Sun Aug 6, 2000 | Spoiled brat's display | Manny Nosowsky |
| PIECER | Thu Dec 11, 1997 | Textile joiner | Trip Payne |
| PREMEDITATEDACT | Sat Oct 11, 2003 | Something planned | Robert H. Wolfe |
| REDHOTCOALS | Wed Mar 29, 2023 | Challenge for a fire-walker … and an anagram of 25-Down | Ben Zoon |
| RITZCRACKER | Fri Jan 3, 2020 | Saltine alternative | Will Treece |
| ROMANCANDLE | Sat Oct 29, 2011 | Producer of shooting stars | Barry C. Silk |
| RUNOF | Tue May 12, 2020 | ___ the mill (ordinary) | Tom Pepper and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| RUNSHORT | Fri Mar 10, 2000 | Suffer depletion | Chuck Deodene |
| SCAREDSTRAIGHT | Tue Jul 29, 1997 | 1978 Oscar-winning prison documentary | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SPENDY | Sat Mar 14, 2020 | Costing a great deal, informally | Peter Wentz |
| SUMMARIZED | Fri Nov 9, 2001 | Digested | Chuck Menning |
| TELETYPISTS | Sat Oct 9, 2004 | Old UPI employees | Byron Walden |
| TOWNSEND | Sat Mar 11, 2000 | Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" | Randolph Ross |
| VIETNAMERA | Tue Oct 18, 2016 | 1961-75 | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| WIGMAKER | Sun Jun 9, 2013 | Expert with locks? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| YANKSON | Sat Jan 3, 1998 | Tries to dislodge | Rich Norris |