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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGENORM | Wed Dec 12, 2018 | Benchmark figure given how old a person is | David J. Kahn |
| AIRCREWMEN | Sat Feb 5, 2011 | Some Navy personnel | Mark Diehl |
| CONTOURMAP | Sat May 11, 2019 | Two-dimensional rendering of three-dimensional terrain | Robyn Weintraub |
| COWSMILK | Fri May 7, 2010 | Swiss cheese ingredient | Tyler Hinman |
| CRAMMER | Mon Jun 17, 2002 | All-night studier | Janice M. Putney |
| DROPINON | Sat Jul 30, 2005 | Surprise with a call | Sherry O. Blackard |
| FACEDTHERAP | Wed May 8, 1996 | Acknowledged responsibility | R. Norris |
| FARCRY | Wed Feb 7, 2018 | Very different thing (from) | Stu Ockman |
| FORESIGHT | Fri Oct 15, 2021 | Important leadership skill | Ashton Anderson |
| GEORGEJEFFERSON | Sun Sep 1, 2013 | Neighbor of Archie Bunker | John Farmer |
| GROENING | Fri Aug 12, 2011 | Creator of "The Simpsons" | Julian Lim |
| GROUCHED | Sat Sep 24, 1994 | Complained | Manny Nosowsky |
| HOOFERS | Sun May 4, 1997 | Astaire and Rogers, e.g. | Manny Nosowsky |
| INACCURATE | Fri Nov 12, 2021 | Off the mark | Patrick John Duggan |
| INASCRAPE | Thu Mar 17, 2016 | Up the creek | David Woolf |
| INOCULA | Sat Sep 4, 2004 | They come in shots | Patrick Berry |
| KEYOFE | Sun May 21, 2017 | Setting for spring in Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" | Randolph Ross |
| LAUGHAT | Mon Jun 23, 2003 | Make fun of | Raymond Hamel |
| LAYERCAKES | Fri Jul 31, 2020 | They're made up of stacked sheets | Claire Rimkus and Erik Agard |
| LIFESPAN | Sun Apr 15, 2012 | About a month, for a fruit fly | Kevin G. Der |
| MANMONTHS | Sat Apr 17, 2010 | Industrial time units | Tim Croce |
| MERRYWIDOW | Tue Jul 25, 1995 | Lehár operetta, with "The" | Gregory E. Paul |
| MISJUDGE | Thu May 17, 2001 | Think wrongly of | David J. Kahn |
| MULTITASK | Sat Jul 19, 2014 | Be a juggler? | Barry C. Silk |
| NEDLOW | Sat Aug 25, 2018 | Renowned pirate captain during the Golden Age of Piracy | Sam Ezersky |
| OUTSIDERS | Thu Apr 19, 2012 | Nonmembers ... or what 4-, 7- and 10-Down lack? | Sean Dobbin |
| POKEAHOLEIN | Thu Jan 22, 1998 | ___ | Patrick Jordan |
| PURINACATCHOW | Sun Feb 22, 2015 | Pet food brand [recover lost ground] | Patrick Berry |
| RECEPTACLES | Fri Jun 4, 1999 | Vessels | John Wolting |
| ROSINED | Fri Apr 5, 1996 | Like a pitcher's bag | J. Page |
| SCAMPERED | Fri Sep 1, 2000 | Played tag, e.g. | Joe DiPietro |
| SEURATS | Sat Jul 23, 2016 | "Bathers at Asnières" and "Parade de Cirque" | Debbie Ellerin |
| SHOVELER | Sun Nov 16, 2003 | Duck with a broad bill | Cathy Millhauser |
| SPORTUTILITY | Fri Dec 6, 2019 | Rugged class | Andrew J. Ries |
| SWIVET | Thu Jul 25, 2002 | Nervous excitement | Michael Shteyman |
| TRUECOLORS | Sun Oct 14, 2018 | Who you really are | Ross Trudeau |
| UPLOADING | Sat May 23, 2020 | Sending to the cloud, e.g. | Wyna Liu and Erik Agard |
| URNAS | Sat Nov 16, 1996 | Containers in Castile | J. Page |
| YETTOSEE | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Not taken in | Joe DiPietro |
| ZENDAVESTA | Sat Oct 17, 1998 | Zoroastrian scriptures | Bryant White |