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 50,581 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTINGMAYOR | Sun Apr 25, 1999 | "To govern or not to govern. That is the question." | Joe DiPietro |
| APPELLATE | Sun Sep 29, 2013 | Kind of court | Norm Guggenbiller |
| APRILSHOWER | Mon Aug 21, 2000 | Spring event | Dave and Diane Epperson |
| ATONIES | Sat Oct 7, 1995 | Muscular weaknesses | Frank A. Longo |
| ATTHEHEART | Fri May 29, 2020 | Central to, with "of" | Sam Ezersky |
| BABYBUMPS | Tue Jul 30, 2019 | Obvious signs of pregnancy | Christina Iverson |
| BANNOCKS | Sun Dec 28, 2008 | Oatcakes popular in Scotland | Patrick Berry |
| CAYENNEPEPPER | Sun Nov 4, 2018 | Paprika lookalike | Patrick Berry |
| COCKBRAINED | Tue Nov 18, 1997 | Foolish | Peter Gordon |
| COMPUTERMONITOR | Fri Dec 4, 2015 | One showing resolution? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| CRENATE | Sun Dec 5, 1993 | Having a notched edge | Manny Nosowsky |
| DELIVERUS | Sun Feb 20, 2011 | Part of the next-to-last line of the Lord's Prayer | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| EARLYBIRDS | Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Ones getting some dinner "specials" | Rachel Fabi and Ken Stern |
| FEATHERS | Sun Jul 6, 1997 | Headdress, maybe | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FIRSTDANCE | Fri Nov 30, 2018 | Activity for newlyweds at a wedding reception | Robyn Weintraub |
| FLOORTOCEILING | Thu Jun 3, 2010 | Fully, in a way | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FORESEER | Fri Apr 8, 2005 | Chiromancer | Manny Nosowsky |
| FRYOLATOR | Sat Feb 28, 2015 | Greasy spoon appliance | Barry C. Silk |
| FUSILE | Sat Mar 14, 1998 | Formed by melting | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| HILARITYENSUES | Sat Nov 23, 2019 | What happens after a zany plot twist | Trenton Charlson |
| KAZAA | Tue May 24, 2005 | Internet music-sharing service | Mike Torch |
| LANDMARK | Mon Jul 7, 2003 | Acquire slugger McGwire? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| MENDFENCES | Fri Oct 30, 1998 | Re-establish good relations | Jim Page |
| NEOPRONOUNS | Sun Aug 21, 2022 | They don't express gender | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger |
| NEWFIES | Fri Oct 6, 2006 | Some eastern Canadians | Nancy Joline |
| NRADIATION | Sat May 31, 2008 | Certain atomic X-ray emission | Robert H. Wolfe |
| ONENIGHTER | Sat Mar 10, 2012 | Quick affair? | Patrick Berry |
| PAROXYSM | Thu Dec 8, 2011 | Emotional outburst | Daniel A. Finan |
| PERFECTFIT | Wed Apr 2, 2025 | What the glass slipper was on Cinderella's foot | Daniel Bodily |
| POLEBEANS | Thu Aug 8, 2019 | Climbing vegetables | Timothy Polin |
| PRERENT | Sun Apr 12, 1998 | Let in advance | Randolph Ross |
| PUFFINBOOKS | Mon Oct 29, 2018 | Children's publisher whose name includes a black-and-white animal | Peter Gordon |
| QUIZBOWL | Fri Mar 31, 2017 | Good practice for the show "It's Academic" | David C. Duncan Dekker |
| STAYONTASK | Thu Jul 1, 2021 | Keep focused | Joe Deeney |
| STITCHING | Sun Jun 21, 2015 | Needlework | Timothy Polin |
| TELEPHONENUMBER | Fri Sep 11, 1998 | Singles bar acquisition | Harvey Estes |
| THEMORETHEMERRIER | Sun Jan 3, 1999 | Two's company, three's a crowd, but also... | Randolph Ross |
| TOOTHSOME | Sun May 3, 1998 | Delicious | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| UNEXAMINED | Tue Apr 17, 2018 | Like a life that's not worth living, per Socrates | Wren Schultz |
| UNROBES | Sun Feb 26, 1995 | Strips | Fred Piscop |