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 50,383 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADDEDATTRACTION | Fri Nov 17, 2000 | It's not on the standard bill | Manny Nosowsky |
| ADNEXA | Sat Aug 17, 2002 | Anatomical parts that touch, as eyelids to eyeballs | Frank Longo |
| AMATTEROFCOURSE | Wed Jul 16, 2008 | Something customary | Joe Krozel |
| ARTROSS | Sat Nov 7, 2020 | Eponym of the N.H.L.'s points leader award | Kameron Austin Collins and Paolo Pasco |
| BAGGAGECAR | Fri Sep 25, 1998 | Streamliner segment | Mark Blakeburn |
| BIGDOSE | Sun Aug 13, 2006 | Healthy amount | Derrick Niederman |
| BIGHORN | Fri Jan 26, 2007 | Yellowstone feeder | Mike Nothnagel |
| BOATLIFT | Sun Jan 13, 2019 | Marina apparatus | Andy Kravis |
| BREZHNEV | Sat Nov 22, 2014 | SALT signer | David Steinberg |
| BRINGSUPTOSPEED | Thu Nov 7, 2024 | Fills in with the latest | Joe Deeney |
| CMAJORSCALE | Mon Jun 22, 2009 | Beginning piano student's exercise | Fred Piscop |
| ECONOMICBOYCOTT | Sat Jun 23, 2018 | Commercial break? | Byron Walden |
| EVENTIDES | Fri Sep 27, 1996 | Nights of old | B. Sefick |
| EWART | Fri Jul 15, 1994 | William ____ Gladstone | A.J. Santora |
| FLATCAP | Wed May 12, 2021 | Short-brimmed hat known as a bunnet in Scotland | Tracy Gray |
| FLEADIP | Sun Oct 23, 2016 | Debugger | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| FOOTPADS | Sat Sep 9, 2023 | Thieves who targeted pedestrians, in historic parlance | Robert S. Gard |
| GRAINOFSALT | Mon Mar 9, 2020 | What you should take dubious advice with | John Lampkin |
| HOBOCAMP | Sun Dec 25, 2005 | Bum place to stay? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| JONLOVITZ | Tue Oct 29, 2019 | *"Saturday Night Live" cast member of the late 1980s | Evan Mahnken |
| LINOCUT | Mon Jun 15, 2015 | Relative of a wood engraving | Mike Buckley |
| ODDDUCKS | Tue May 29, 2018 | Idiosyncratic sorts | John Lieb |
| OTHERWORLD | Sat Apr 13, 1996 | Heaven or hell | G. R. Ferguson |
| OUSEL | Sun May 25, 2008 | White-collared thrush: Var. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PADDLEWHEEL | Mon Aug 10, 2015 | *Riverboat propeller | C. W. Stewart |
| PAREIDOLIA | Sun Sep 12, 2021 | Phenomenon such as the tendency to see human forms in inanimate objects | Alex Rosen |
| PESSIMISTIC | Mon Dec 2, 2024 | Seeing the glass half-empty | Andrea Carla Michaels and Kevin Christian |
| PISSEDOFF | Mon Dec 2, 2024 | Beyond irritated | Andrea Carla Michaels and Kevin Christian |
| PUSSES | Sun Nov 20, 2005 | Kitties | Patrick Merrell |
| RANDOMNOISE | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | EIOSN | Michael Ashley |
| REMINI | Sun Feb 26, 2023 | Leah who wrote "Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology" | Will Nediger |
| REWARDER | Wed Sep 24, 2003 | One offering encouragement | Sheldon Benardo |
| RHMACY | Wed Jun 24, 2020 | Department store founder | Joe Deeney |
| SHIFTWORKERS | Sun Sep 20, 1998 | Nurses and police officers, e.g. | Charles M. Deber |
| SMARTSET | Fri Nov 29, 2002 | Sophisticates | Patrick Berry |
| SNUGGLES | Sun Mar 14, 2004 | Curls up | Craig Kasper |
| TUTANKHAMEN | Thu Nov 29, 2007 | Egyptian royal | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TWITTERVERSE | Fri Jan 3, 2014 | Online realm since 2006 | Barry C. Silk and Brad Wilber |
| VITAMIND | Sat Sep 3, 2011 | It's acquired in the sun | Peter Wentz |
| WINGEDHORSE | Tue Nov 5, 2013 | *Pegasus, notably | Paula Gamache |